Professional Documents
Culture Documents
POSITION PAPER:
RESEARCH: Most conferences will require a position paper.
The first thing you should do when you receive The following is a generic outline to a position
your topic, country, and committee. paper, however, specific conferences or commit-
tees may have different requirements, so be sure
1.Topic Synopsis: This was prepared for you by to check the conference’s website for details.
the chair to give an overview of the topic(s). The
chair may even choose to include controversial General Format: 12 pt font, double spaced,
issues about the topics and what bloc positions typed, stapled (no covers), correct spelling and
are. grammar.
VERBS ADJECTIVES
EXTRAS
No gum; mints are acceptable
Cell phones should not be seen or heard in com-
mittee. You may only use your phones at lunch
or after the conference is over.
Laptops are fine if they are used for writing res-
olutions, but you should not be using them to
play games.
No walkman, MP3 players, iPods, etc. (You are
not at a MUN conference to listen to music…)
Roll Call- The secretary calls all countries, not- Students should be in their assigned commit-
ing which are present. When your country is tees and active in those committees during the
United Nations
http://www.un.org UN Cyberschoolbus
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/in-
UN IRIN dex.asp
http://www.irinnews.org/default.asp
UNA-USA Resources
CIA World Factbook http://www.unausa.org/
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Harvard MUN
BBC Country Profiles http://www.harvardmun.org/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/
default.stm American MUN
http://www.amun.org
State Department Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/ National MUN
http://www.nmun.org/
UN List of Organizations
http://undcp.or.at/unlinks.html UChicago MUN
http://www.munuc.org/
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/