Challenging Future Challenges: Bringing Diplomacy Forward!
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 – 1963)
Preface
Model United Nations (MUN) is a simulation of the United Nations functions. In an MUN conference, participating delegates represent nations as part of UN multilateral bodies. Delegates engage in debates concerning international affairs faced by the global community to reach a joint resolution.
Today more than 400 Model UN conferences are held annually worldwide. More than 1,000,000 people have participated in MUN conferences around the world since the conferences became popular over 50 years ago.
As a large developing country filled with diverse and potential young minds, Indonesia still lacks a nation-wide MUN conference. This is why the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Universitas Indonesia will hold: Indonesia Model United Nations (IMUN) is the premier varsity level Model United Nations conference in Indonesia. Being the first ever nation-wide Model UN to be held in Indonesia, IMUN will bring together 165 talented university students from renowned universities all over the country. They will act as delegates representing more than 100 different countries in three United Nations councils.
IMUN connects the Indonesian youth to the UN, educates them in global issues and the process of multilateral diplomacy. Participants will be given opportunities to further develop their competences in diplomacy, debate and networking through interactions with high-profile speakers and fellow delegates. For the Indonesian nation itself, IMUN offers a chance in formulating solutions for the global issues the world faces now and in
the future.
Event in Brief
IMUN Roadshow
As part of our nation-wide publication process, we will organize a road show encompassing six major cities in Indonesia: Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Denpasar, Padang and Makassar. This will be a means for us to introduce IMUN in general through seminars to potential IMUN delegates.
IMUN Workshop
IMUN Workshop I is a pre-IMUN workshop to introduce Model United Nations (MUN) in general and IMUN in particular. This workshop will be held a few months before IMUN as part of the IMUN promotion and the proliferation of MUN, which can be assumed as a new nation-wide event, in Indonesia. IMUN Workshop I is aimed to be participated by FISIP students and potential IMUN participants. However, this workshop is also open for public.
This event will be held at:
Date : July 14th – 15th, 2010
Time : 11.00 – 17.00 WIB
Place : Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia
Conference
Theme: “Challenging Future Challenges: Bringing Diplomacy Forward”
The future of mankind is constantly threatened by the social, humanitarian and security issue. The major challenge that we have to overcome is the depleting resource of energy and how to choose the best alternate that can benefits us all, which leads us all to one of the option; developing nuclear energy. United Nations, as the international regime as an institution of common understanding and collective action of the world is mandated to find the solution. The UN General Assembly, Disarmament and Security Council as well as Economic and Social Council are dwelling to find the best way to maximize the use of nuclear and transfer technology as well as minimizing its harm through humanitarian analysis. The UN Security Council will also review the determination of UN’s position to Iran’s Nuclear ambition. Whereas the Asean Regional
Forum is finding the consensus in responding North Korea Nuclearization and Nuclear Terrorism. IMUN will witness the performance of our students in determining our future within the specified committees through act of diplomacy.
This conference will be held at:
Date : October 23rd – 27th, 2010
Time : 08.00 – 21.00 WIB
Place : Universitas Indonesia
Complete information : www.indonesiamun.org
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