Troubled Times: the Cabinet of Edward Heath, 1972 Hawaiʻi Pacific Model United Nations 2019
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Troubled Times: The Cabinet of Edward Heath, 1972 Hawaiʻi Pacific Model United Nations 2019 Aloha and welcome to PacMUN 2019! Our names are Jackie Osaki and Matt Linker and we are excited to return as Secretary General for PacMUN 2019. Throughout our involvement with PacMUN over the past three years, we have seen this conference grow and flourish. We are happy to say that trend continues this year as we host the largest and most dynamic PacMUN so far, with a variety of General Assembly, Specialized, Crisis, and Joint Crisis committees that tackle some of the most complex and urgent issues that have faced our world. My name is Jackie and I’m a recent graduate of Stanford University with a BS with Honors in Biology and a BA in Comparative Literature. I currently work for a management and technology consulting firm that specializes in media and entertainment. Throughout my Stanford career, I participated in Model UN as a delegate, vice-captain, and eventually team captain in my last two years. I love being able to bring realism and current issues to Model UN for students to begin thinking about how we can solve the most pressing issues facing society today. My name is Matt and I’m a 2019 Stanford graduate in Computer Science, and now work in equity derivatives trading and structuring at a major financial services firm. I first participated in MUN early in my own high school career, before rediscovering it my sophomore year at Stanford, eventually serving as vice-captain, captain, and on the board of our MUN team’s parent organization, the Society for International Affairs at Stanford. To me, MUN represents a window into the true complexity of world affairs, and an excellent learning opportunity to understand why some challenges are more difficult to resolve than others. While we are excited to bring what we believe to be the best PacMUN yet into fruition, we are most excited to see relationships continue to build this year. We strive to embody all of our core values, but it is truly special to see laulima, or collaboration, in action. We urge all delegates to keep laulima in mind to work together to innovate solutions and make new friends in the process. We hope this guide helps you jump start your research for this year’s PacMUN and we look forward to seeing you in November! Sincerely, Jackie Osaki and Matt Linker 2 Hello delegates! My name is Stephanie Jackson (I usually go by Stephy) and I will be your chair for Prime Minister Edward Heath’s Cabinet at PacMUN 2019. I have been participating in Model U.N. since fifth grade and have loved it ever since. I graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California in May of 2019 and am a freshman at Stanford University this year. Some of my favorite things to do are to spend time with my four other siblings, eat cookie dough, and read. I am a big fan of The Lord of the Rings (the books and the movies), The Office, Parks and Rec and of course, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I plan to study foreign policy and international law during college, but I am also interested in psychology, child development, and bioethics. I am extraordinarily excited to chair at PacMUN this year and can not wait to meet all of you in November. Our committee starts in the year 1972, in the heat of the ethno-nationalist conflict between the Unionists and Nationalists in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. For this committee, I expect delegates to be well-versed in the history of our topic as well as thoroughly researched in the position and opinion of their assigned cabinet member. This committee is an opportunity for delegates to demonstrate their research capabilities, public speaking skills, as well as the ability to respond to crises swiftly and creatively. In this Cabinet, delegates will work collaboratively to synthesize solutions and responses to one of the most pressing issues facing the Empire - one that concerns our very unity. In this committee, I, you chair, will be acting as Prime Minister Edward Heath. If you have any questions 3 or concerns as you research your position, please feel free to send me an email at [email protected] and I will get back to you as soon as possible. As your Prime Minister I will expect my cabinet members work together during each committee session and to understand that we all have a common goal: to end this destabilizing conflict, and to protect our citizens from future or imminent harm. I cannot wait to meet you all, have fun reading this background guide, and God save the Queen! 4 Greetings delegates, and mahalo nui loa. My name is Luc Lavatai, and I have the distinct pleasure to serve as your Crisis Director for PACMUN 2019. I graduated from ‘Iolani School in 2015, and was involved with the Hawai’i Model UN community as a delegate with ‘Iolani, also serving as the Secretary-General of the 2014-2015 ‘Iolani Conference programme. I attended NYU and graduated this past May with a BS in Business, concentrating in Finance and Strategy. During my time at NYU, I competed on the collegiate circuit, served on the 2016 Directorate for EmpireMUNC, NYU’s High School Conference, and the 2017-2018 Secretariat for NYUMUNC, our collegiate conference. In addition, I’ve chaired and crisis directed several committees, including the JCC Space Race – New Russian Empire in 2015, JCC Europe – Hungary in 2016, Saharan Crisis – Chad in 2016, the Ad-Hoc Committee of the Secretary General in 2017, and most recently Black Hawk Down in 2019. Model UN has been a core part of my life for quite some time now, and I am excited to share this opportunity with the next generation of delegates. I grew up in Hawai’i and thus have an insatiable love for local food, which has only been compounded by the lack of good poké in New York. I am an avid steak enthusiast, and also enjoy brisket, ribs, bacon, pork belly, and Korean BBQ. When I’m not playing cards or cooking, I can often be found catching up on shows on Netflix and HBO – some of my all-time favorites include Billions, Big Little Lies, Jack Ryan and The Americans. I’m excited to return home to see that 5 Model UN has flourished in Hawai’i, and look forward to a weekend of heated debate, political intrigue, and lasting memories. Technology Policy In this committee there will be a strict no-technology policy for all committee sessions. Delegates will be writing directives and crisis notes on paper. If a delegate needs to search for a statistic or fact during committee they can ask the chair to do so. Introduction It is February 1st, 1972 and the country is in turmoil. One day ago British soldiers shot 28 civilians in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland during a protest led by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) against the internment of Irish Nationalists and other civil rights abuses against the Catholic minority in the region of Ulster. As of now, 13 have been confirmed as dead due to this tragic event; all were Catholic.1 The growing tension in Northern Ireland between the Nationalists, or Republicans, who wish Northern Ireland to united with the country of Ireland, and the Unionists, or Loyalists, who wished Northern Ireland to remain with the United Kingdom is an imminent threat to the stability of the country. The tragic events at Derry, which have been named Bloody Sunday, have seemed to light a match on the kindling of the conflict brewing during recent years. Tomorrow on February 2nd, 12 of the thirteen who died will be buried 1 “Bloody Sunday: What Happened on Sunday 30 January 1972?” BBC News, BBC, 14 Mar. 2019, www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-47433319. 6 and the citizens of the United Kingdom wait for their nation’s leaders to react to this troublesome event. History Though The Troubles officially began in 1969, the conflict between the Protestants and Catholics as well as the fight for independence from British rule in Ireland dates back to centuries before then. In 1603, following the brutal conflict of the Desmond Rebellions and the Nine Years War, King James I brought the Kingdom of Ireland under English rule and eventually united all four regions of Britain — England, Scotland, Whales, and Ireland. In 1609, Protestant Scottish and English settlers, known as “planters” were sent to the Irish province of Ulster — located in the north-east of the country. This organized colonization of Irish land, known as the Plantation of Ulster, led to an outbreak of conflict between Catholic residents and Protestant planters, known as the Irish Confederate Wars of 1641 and 1653. The victory of Protestant forces after the wars led to the passage of restrictive legislation for the Catholic population in Ireland which sparked more discontent with British rule.2 These Penal Laws — which included but were not limited to the ban of intermarriage between Catholics and Protestants, the ban of Catholic membership in the Parliament of Ireland, and the Disinfringement Act which 2 Finnegan, Patrick. “Religious Motivation During the Troubles.” St Antony's International Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2016, pp. 53–75. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26229159. 7 banned Catholics from voting — led to years of Irish rebellion against English dominion as well as retaliatory attacks on Irish citizens from British forces. Influenced by the American and French Revolutions of 1776 and 1789, a group of republican revolutionists named the Society of United Irishmen organized a rebellion in 1798.