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EthicalMUN III Yugoslavian Civil War Chairs: Noah Greer and Olivia Pollack Crisis Directors: Sarah Kaiser and Theodore Canning EthicalMUNEthicalMUN IIIII Hello Delegates, We are delighted to welcome you to Ethical MUN II and we are looking Theo Dassin forward to two full and exciting days of debate. Co-Secretary General The topic for this committee is Yugoslavia and we are really looking forward to seeing your unique solutions. We hope that this topic will stimulate your creativity and make Iva Knezevic for an amazing weekend. We have four experienced chairs and crisis directors who are Co-Secretary General eagerly anticipating the conference. Please take time to thoroughly read the background guide and conduct research of your own so that you can have the best CormacAlex Keswani Thorpe position papers possible. This background guide is simply a starting point for your Co-SecretaryChief of Staff General research, and much more research is necessary to prepare for this committee. For those of you who are new to Model UN, this committee is a crisis committee which JulieJacob Johnson Greene means that there will constantly be new problems (provided by our lovely crisis Chief of Staff directors Sarah and Noah) that you must solve. This committee will be starting in 1992. Anything before this is set in stone, Ryan Kelly but anything after is all up to you. Emphasis will be placed on not copying exactly OliviaVice-Secretary Becker of what occurred in real life, as we want you to come up with interesting and creative ChiefCommittees of Staff solutions on your own. Please do not try to copy what actually occurred in committee, as the wonderful crisis staff will be introducing new crises often, many of which did Olivia PollackBecker not historically occur. We are very excited to hear your solutions and ideas on the ChiefVice-Secretary of Staff of complicated issues we will be dealing with over this conference. We fully welcome Administration any questions you have, and we look forward to seeing you in May! Halle Friedman UnderHalle SecretaryFriedman General Your Chairs, ofVice-Secretary Committees of Olivia Pollack ([email protected]) Outreach Noah Greer ([email protected]), Hannah Platt Theodore Canning ([email protected]), Sarah Kaiser ([email protected]) LeilaniUnder Secretary Elkaslasy General Communityof Communications Service Director Alex Keswani Crisis Director Jacob Greene Crisis Director Lily Josephson Crisis Director Yugoslavian Civil War EthicalMUNEthicalMUN II III CrisisCrisis Committee Description moderated caucus, or the speaker’s list. Delegates in this committee It is 1992 in the middle of the should be prepared to write three Yugoslav Wars! In this committee, kinds of legislation: delegates will be fighting for the political independence of their nation Directives while maintaining diplomatic Directives, the most common piece of relations with the other countries. legislation, are sponsored by one or Throughout the committee session more delegate. Directives use the new “crises” will be introduced and entire power of the committee to the delegates will have to find the best solve and respond to crisis updates. way to handle them. This committee (Horace Mann Model United Nations will be extremely fun and Conference 4) They should be written intellectually stimulating and we in clauses; however, unlike clauses for cannot wait to see you all in May! General Assemblies, the operative clauses include actionable words, Committee Background such as “creates” or “deploys.” Also, and Procedure by their nature, they are shorter than Procedure full-length resolutions. Directives This committee will follow standard require a simple majority from the parliamentary procedure for Model committee to be passed. The dais will UN. As a crisis committee, we will be decide the exact number of in a perpetual moderated caucus. This signatories, sponsors, and votes that means that once the debate is opened, each directive requires at the delegates must motion for moderated beginning of each session. To read or unmoderated caucuses. If not, the directives aloud, delegates must dais will revert back to the perpetual motion for all directives on the floor !1 Yugoslavian Civil War EthicalMUNEthicalMUN II III CrisisCrisis to be presented. This must be our own. These should be delivered to followed with another motion, either a the chairs but addressed to crisis. motion for more debate or to go into voting procedure. Multiple directives Press Releases may be passed in a crisis committee, Press releases are ways for the whole and the crisis directors will provide committee to express sentiments and crises based on whatever legislation updates to the public. Press releases was passed in committee. will be presented in the same style as directives, and require the same Communiques amount of sponsors and signatories as Communiques are a way for delegates directives. Keep in mind that press to address people, entities, or other releases do not do much to alter the organizations not represented in the flow of committee in general. But in committee. Communiques can request this committee, certain delegates must special information, individual issue multiple press releases, as it is meetings with bodies outside the part of their portfolio powers. committee, or certain materials or resources. Each request must be in the Crisis Notes realm of the delegate’s portfolio Crisis notes, or sometimes referred to powers (ie: if a peasant is requesting 1 as personal directives, are ways for billion Rubles from the Ministry of delegates to use their own Ethical Finance, the request will not likely be Model United Nations Conference III met). Each communique should be portfolio powers to change the flow of written as a formal letter, with as committee. Crisis notes must be much specificity as possible. addressed to Crisis and should be Remember, if you don’t provide the delivered to the dais. Crisis notes do details in your letters, we will make not need to be written in clause form, !2 Yugoslavian Civil War EthicalMUNEthicalMUN II III Crisis Crisis but should be clear and detailed. Once suggested blocs, but these do not have again, crisis notes will only be met if to play out in committee itself. the requests lie in the realms of a delegate’s portfolio powers. Crisis Portfolio Powers notes are the most personally Portfolio Powers are resources and powerful and dangerous piece of powers allocated to each delegate. legislation in committee. Good crisis Powers will be handed out at the notes should direct the flow of beginning of committee sessions. committee in a direction that benefits oneself and the whole committee as History well. Before sending a note, make sure this is in character of your The Yugoslav Wars were a delegate. Crisis notes do not have to series of independence oriented be voted on by the entire committee, conflicts that lead to the dissolution of as they are unilateral. If delegates may the Yugoslav State. Beginning in choose, two or more delegates may 1991, the Yugoslav Wars resulted in collaborate to use their portfolio the deaths of more than 140,000 powers to write a joint crisis note. people, according to the International Center for Transitional Justice. The Blocs Yugoslav Wars is a broad name for Blocs are groups of allies that usually several wars including, the Wars in vote together on issues, and may have the Balkans, and the Yugoslavia Civil some sort of common end goal. In the War. The series of wars essentially show, there are many alliances, but began due to rising nationalism these do not need to be honored in the among the various ethnic groups in committee. There will be a list of Yugoslavia - the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes - who opposed each other. !3 Yugoslavian Civil War EthicalMUNEthicalMUN II III CrisisCrisis Any strong governmental structure fighters, and the communist Partisan that was previously present had movement, under the control of Tito. crumbled and inefficiently reformed After World War II, Tito's communist such that the Communist government party tried to unite the six republics - was controlled by very many Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, disagreeing individuals. Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bosnia- For a very long time, South Herzegovina - and balance the Slavic areas were ruled by two competing claims of the different empires, the Ottomans and ethnic groups. Although peace was Hapsburgs. Bosnia and Serbia were temporarily achieved under the rule of overtaken by the Turkish armies while Tito, underlying tensions remained as the Croats and the Slovenes became a very useful political tool for any part of the Hapsburg (and later the leader who wished to stir up Austro-Hungarian) empire. nationalist sentiment. Historical Yugoslavia was created after World bitterness is still serviced by many War I. The state was dominated by the groups as a weapon in a constant Serbs, and a major source of tension quest for power. was that the Croats were constantly After Tito's death in 1980, there striving towards independence. were three distinct, remaining In 1941 Yugoslavia was invaded by problems: the wildly different Hitler’s German forces, and a bitter interests of varying ethnic groups, the conflict ensued between the Nazi inefficiency of the economy, and sympathetic Croat state and its Yugoslavia’s institutional inability to resistance movements. Two of the structurally retain unity among most powerful resistance groups were Yugoslav peoples. During the 1980s, the Chetnik Guerilla militant group, Yugoslavia was destabilized by a consisting of Serbian freedom- severe economic and political crises. !4 Yugoslavian Civil War EthicalMUNEthicalMUN II III CrisisCrisis Ethnic violence erupted in the whom lived in republics other than autonomous region of Kosovo, with a Serbia, into a position of power within large Albanian majority. A primary Yugoslavia. Croatia, especially, was a political development was the problem with its 600,000 Serbs, and appointment of Slobodan Milosevic, the harsh policies of President first as communist party chief and Tudjman only added to the Croatian then as President of Serbia in 1989.