Preparing for the Fall 2014 Stark County High

School Model United Nations (SCHMUN)

A guide for teachers and students

Thursday, November 20, 2014

This afternoon’s agenda

1. Welcome to students and teachers

2. Country assignments

3. Our three issues this fall

4. Steps in the process

1.a. Welcome to 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 to 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 Ebola

C. Cyber-security issues globally

3.a. Head of “ISIS,” “Abu Bakr al Baghdadi”

What’s his 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)

Origins of Da’ish?

Sunni radicalization in Iraq after 2003 US invasion (insurgency and prison networks)

What about Shiites? (Maliki government)

2006: Established by Al Qaeda in Iraq

2010: leaders killed in US-Iraq operation and Abu Bakr takes over

2011-2014: Blowback in Syria (and Iraq?)?

2014, Feb.: Al Qaeda cuts ties with ISIS

Oil and electricity

August, 2014: US –led air campaign vs. Da’ish

Syria Crisis and the UN

Security Council paralysis in dealing with the Syrian Civil War since 2011

Breakthrough in September 2013 on Chemical Weapons only

Al-Nusra Front (ally of al-Qaeda but enemy of ISIS) took 45 UN Peacekeepers hostage from the Golan Heights in August-September 2014 (see next slide for map of Golan Heights)

ISIS in Syria AND Iraq

Broader problem: Violent groups rising in weak or

failed states

Al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan

Houthis in Yemen

Al Shabab in Somalia

Possible responses?

Support for coalitions to use force against these groups.

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

Building resources for peace-building and understanding?

3.b. The global problem of the Ebola

virus outbreak

The Nigerian success story

July 20 – one Liberian man travels by plane, infects 19, dies, and 7 more die.

October 20 – the World Health Organization (WHO) announces that Nigeria is free of Ebola.

How did they do it?

Possible UN responses?

Help with treatment (support religious and non-religious NGOs)?

Reinforce the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone?

Build on UN Security Council meetings and statements on September 18 and October 15, 2014?

Strengthen the World Health Organization’s ability to mobilize more rapidly and put health workers in the field (beyond its core functions?)

Help reinforce public health systems (Nigeria)?

Longer-range education, prevention, isolation, and containment programs?

3.c. Cyber-Security: Problems

Cyber-attacks by governments as a substitute for physical war

Stuxnet or China vs. the US military Hacking into commercial sites

Retail (Target and Home Depot) Corporate secrets and intellectual property

Cyber-vandalism: Example against UN/ITU conference

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43699&Cr=technology&Cr1=#.UoTfOL-Abww

Spying and Security Breaches

Wikileaks (Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange)

Edward Snowden and NSA revelations of spying

Possible UN responses?

Setting general norms or rules?

UN Group of Experts: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/06/210418.htm

General Security and Economic “Streams”: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/maurer-cyber-norm-

dp-2011-11-final.pdf

Taking over regulation of the Internet from semi-private groups?

ITU programs like IMPACT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Multilateral_Partnership_Against_Cyber_Threats

4. Steps in 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

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

TONIGHT: Malone General Assembly, 6:30 pm here.

Committee meetings (one committee per issue)

Thursday, December 4, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, meet in Regula Hall 208 (next building north) and go to breakout rooms after that.

Full General Assembly

Saturday, December 6, from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon, here in Silk Auditorium.

Visitors are welcome!