preparing for the fall 2015 stark county high school model united nations (schmun) a guide for...

Preparing for the Fall 2015 Stark County High

School Model United Nations (SCHMUN)

A guide for teachers and students

Thursday, November 19, 2015

This afternoon’s agenda

1. Welcome to students and teachers

2. Checking country assignments

3. Our three issues this fall

4. Steps of the process for the simulation

1.a. Welcome, students!

How many of you are new to Model UN? New to SCHMUN? New to Malone’s campus?

Welcome! It is all about you learning and having fun!

Simulations: Stay in character: Play your role

Bonus: MUN is a great extracurricular

1.b. Welcome, teachers!

Thank you!!

Professional Development Contact Hours are available

Questions on practical matters?

2. Country assignments

Delegation assignments:

http://schmun.wikispaces.com/Roster+of+Delegations

Any problems or changes?

3. Our three issues

A. The problem of “Da’ish”

B. Global response to refugee migration

C. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

3.a. Terrorism and Da’ish: Paris, 9/13/15

Russian airliner crash in Sinai (10/31/15)

New York Times story today on ISIS rise

(11/19/15)http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/world/middleeast/in-rise-of-isis-no-single-missed-key-but-many-strands-of-blame.html

Back in Syria

Head of “ISIS,” “Abu Bakr al Baghdadi”

What’s the group’s name?

DAISH (short for “Dawla al Islamiyya fi Iraq wa al-Shams,” Arabic for “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria region”) = a negative sounding tone in Arabic

= ISIS: Islamic State inIraq and Syria =

= ISIL: Islamic State in the Levant =

= “So-called Islamic State” (National Public Radio)

Hierarchy or a decentralized

network?

Four root causes of Daish’s rise?

A vacuum in Syria and Iraq

Civil War in Syria started in the Arab Spring

Weak, Shia-dominated government in Iraq

Radicalization and violent extremism of migrants or alienated locals in the West

Islamic “imaginaries” and use of social media

Migration?

Lack of human development and hope?

A UN-backed coalition war against ISIS?

Establishing stable and legitimate governments in Iraq and Syria (and Afghanistan and Yemen and Libya, etc.)

Building stronger, less corrupt states that would provide security for their citizens.

Would reduce refugee migration

Hope for “homegrown” radicals?

Reducing the appeal of ISIS recruitment

Long-term economic and social (human) development

Four general responses

3.b. The Migration Crisis for Europe

Migration of people in general

Around 300 million people worldwide live in countries other than those of their birth (4% of the world’s people)

Americans are focused on why people come IN to the US, but we really need to look at why they LEAVE their home countries.

Two types of migrants

And two different reasons why people emigrate.

Refugees

Those who are outside their home country and seek asylum because of “a well-founded fear of persecution because of [their] race, religion, nationality, or membership of a particular group or political opinion.” (1951 Refugee Convention, I[A]).

The “push factor” of political conflicts (not the “pull”)

Facts about refugees worldwide

As of 2013, there were 51.2 million “forcibly displaced people” (the most since the end of World War II)*

16.7 million refugees

33.3 million Internally Displaced Persons

1.2 million asylum seekers

Third country resettlement is the third, last resort option after 1) voluntary repatriation and 2) asylum in neighboring country

Facts about refugee resettlement in the US

Numbers of refugees resettled each year in the US

Usually under 80,000**

Top five countries from which refugees have come in the last 20 years?***

Former Soviet Union (380,000)

Vietnam (180,000)

Former Yugoslavia (169,000)

Iraq (106,000)

Myanmar (104,000)

USA to take 10,000 Syrians!

Lebanon has taken in Syrian refugees equal to 25% of its population. The equivalent proportion for the US would be 79 million people.

Economic migrants

Those who follow the “pull” of economic opportunity (Supply and Demand).

The majority of people worldwide who migrate are on this track (not refugees).

3.c. The SDGs: Draining the Swamps?

Follow-up to the MDGs

September 2015 GA and SDG summit

Statements by leaders given in the 70th Session, Sept. 2015

http://gadebate.un.org/

The 2015 Summit

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit

Violation of KISS?

MDGs = 8 goals with 21 target measures

SDGs = 17 goals with 169 target measures

Human development and human security

Draining the Swamp: Underlying Causes

Helping to remove underlying conditions that contribute to violence and war.

Advancing and energizing pursuit of the SDGs through UN General Assembly efforts

4. Steps of the process for our simulation

A. Researching

B. Writing resolutions

C. Getting resolutions to the full floor

D. Rules of procedure

4.a. Researching In addition to websites for issues (above),

see . . .

Some powerful Google search tips

Use “Quotation marks” in search box

Control-F

Domain limits: Site: un.org, unmeetings.org

4.b. Writing Resolutions

See handout (blue paper) on how to write resolutions and hold on to it.

Also see guidelines on website: http://schmun.wikispaces.com/Resolution+formatting+models

You will view them via classroom projectors in Committees: Bring a flash drive, email it to yourself, use a Google Drive, or use Apple Airplay to project directly from your device.

We will discuss ONE resolution at a time in Committee.

4.c. Getting resolutions to the floor Each committee will be allowed to pass only

TWO resolutions (for a total of six that will go the full Assembly)

4.d. Rules of procedure See handout (pink paper) and hold onto it

Also posted on the website: http://schmun.wikispaces.com

Final Word: Dates, Times, Locations

Committee meetings (one committee per issue)

Thursday, December 10, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, meet in the Silk Auditorium, Mitchell Hall 101 – we will dismiss from there.

Full General Assembly

Saturday, December 12, from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm, here in Silk Auditorium.

Visitors are welcome!