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Delegates‘ Handbook Impressum Model United Nation Göttingen e.V. (MUNSG/GöMUN) Website: http://munsg.de/ Facebook: Model United Nations Society Göttingen e.V. (GoeMUN) Layout: Arne L Gellrich Druck: Digitales Druck Zentrum, Weender Straße 104 37073 Göttingen GöMUN 2016 Asia Unbound Contents Welcoming Words by the GöMUN 2016 Executive Board 2 Welcoming Words by the Patrons of the Conference 4 The Organisation 7 Meet the Team 8 Meet the Chairs 10 Meet our Patrons 14 Meet our Keynote Speakers 16 Documents 17 Example of an Opening Speech 18 Rules of Procedure 19 How to Write a Resolution 30 Drafting Resolutions 31 Sample Clauses 33 Sample Resolution 34 Further Information 35 Schedule 36 Contact and other useful information 38 Room for Your Notes 40 Voucher for the GöMUN 2017 40 Official GöMUN group picture 41 v Welcome to the 8th conference! GöMUN 2016 GöMUN 2016 Welcome to the 8th conference! Asia Unbound Asia Unbound Welcoming Words by the GöMUN 2016 Executive Board We, the Executive Board are more than happy to welcome you to GöMUN 2016. We hope you will have as much fun participating as we had organizing it! global players. Model United Nations is a unique experience to improve your English, learn to negotiate, deal At the same time, Asia has also been the setting for some of the worst political and military with topics of international politics and meet people from all over the world. We all hear about conflicts in recent history. The political systems in the region range from democracies like in politics on the news but MUN will give you the opportunity to gain practical knowledge and India over absolute monarchies like in Saudi-Arabia to dictatorships like in North Korea. Just experience how international conflicts are solved and treaties are negotiated. another aspect where Asia is as diverse as can be. With the economic focus shifting the time will As our theme we chose “Asia Unbound – a continent on the rise’’. Asia is the world largest and tell how far the focus in international politics will shift simultaneously. most populated continent. It consist of 48 UN member states, two of which are Veto powers in You, as delegates of GöMUN 2016 will get the chance to discuss the issue of ‘’Asia Unbound the UN Security Council. It has a total population of more than 4.4 billion people and almost all – A continent on the rise’’ from several different angles. Focus on the economic side by being world religions are represented. Overall, Asia is a vastly diverse continent with many different a delegate of APEC, the security policy perspective by being a UNSC council delegate, on the languages, climate zones, cultures, religions, political systems and also economic power. There issue of human rights by choosing the HRC or on the relationship between Europe and Asia are some of the poorest countries in the world such as Burma as a delegate of the European Council. Whatever your alongside some of the highest developed countries such as Ja- preferences are, you will have a great time! pan. The differences are extreme. Within just a few decades the We are thrilled to welcome you to Göttingen and our four tiger states and China manage to transform from poor de- conference! veloping countries into some of the world’s leading economies Best, and the Arab states at the Gulf build modern fairytales from Viet Duc Nguyen, Anne Reinhard and Fabian Dolch their petrodollars. The global perspective is shifting. Europe, the GöMUN Executive Board United States and Russia will no longer be the only important 2 3 Welcome to the 8th conference! GöMUN 2016 GöMUN 2016 Welcome to the 8th conference! Asia Unbound Asia Unbound Greeting by Thomas Oppermann MP, Patron of the Conference Greeting by Amb. Rosario Manalo, Patron of the Conference Dear participants of the 2016 Göttingen Model United Nations Conference, Greetings! Welcome to this year‘s conference, Asia Unbound: A Continent on the Rise. Among many other exciting themes, you will discuss issues regarding Asia‘s evolving place in world affairs, as well as its relations with Europe. Given my experience as a very fortunate diplomatic representative of my country, the Philippines, particularly to ASEAN and various European countries, your topic is naturally very close to my heart, and it is gratifying to see so many students of various disciplines interested in discussing Asia and its past and potential ties with Europe. As your organizers understand, one of the key ideas to remember about Asia is that it can hardly be considered a single entity, due to the disparities and diversities that make it such a fascinating part of the world. Easy generalizations do not apply to complex realities, as can be seen in Asian histories, in which, for better and for worse, the nations of Europe have played no small part. Thus, the main title of this conference (Asia Unbound) refers not just to the rapid growth in the economic and political power of Asia—or at least some parts of it—but is also a call to think beyond pre-conceived notions of what Asia is, and is becoming. Europe also has to grapple with fundamental questions regarding its identity and changing place in our interconnected world, and part of this also involves constantly re-evaluating its relations with Asian countries, both as individual states and as blocs. Aside from your interest in the topic, I am glad to see young delegates of diverse levels of experience participating in a conference together. Having supported the building and running of multiple university- level MUN programs in the Philippines, I understand how Model United Nations can help prepare university students to develop a global worldview. MUN also encourages the cultivation of skills such as good communication, critical thinking, cooperation, and negotiation that will serve you well in a variety of disciplines and professions. As conference veterans know, there is always something new to learn by doing MUN, which is part of what draws people toward conferences again and again. Though I am regrettably unable to travel to Göttingen to be present at your event, please do trust that I am greatly interested in its development, and am very proud to be your patron. Ladies and gentlemen of the 2014 Göttingen Model United Nations conference, may you have a fruitful debate! 4 5 The Organisation GöMUN 2016 GöMUN 2016 General information – Meet the Team Asia Unbound Asia Unbound General information – Meet the Team The Executive Board Registration Social Programme Team Crisis Team Duc Nguyen, Anne Reinhard, Fabian L S Dolch Thomas Michaelis Christian Pfaar, Marcel Schwarz, Ingo Knigge Artur Eibauer, Sven Pauls, Jamina Jugo, Philipp Garbowsky Logistics Team Newspaper Team Charlotte Degro, Doreen Zöllner, Ingo Knigge, Merle Köppelmann, Sara Daub, Ben Dalka; not in Daniel Becker, Julian Weinmann, Maxine Freistühler, Imme Warnecke, Arne L Gellrich, Mingjun the picture: Larissa Henkst, Bolor Jamidandagva, Niklas Kayser Li. Not in picture: Alberta Brown, Marie Nehring 8 9 General information – Meet the Chairs GöMUN 2016 GöMUN 2016 General information – Meet the Chairs Asia Unbound Asia Unbound The Security Council The council on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation This year’s GöMUN conference will not only include traditional MUN- Traditionally the council for more advanced delegates, the GöMUNSC councils, but also non-UN-bodies of similar structure. One of these is will this year be discussing territorial conflicts in Eastern Asia, before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. This primarily economically- concentrating on the more specific case of the Korean peninsula. focussed organ is concerned with the promotion of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region through free trade and cooperation. At GöMUN, the APEC is devised Inga Meyenborg studies management and production engineering at as a council for MUN-veterans at an intermediate level. The GöMUN-APEC will negotiate the the University of Bremen, where she is also working as a research assis- classical topics of energy security and the promotion of free trade in the region. tant at the Institute of Material Science. Her first attendance of a MUN was at HamMUN in 2012, followed by various conferences, for example PiMUN and OstseeMUN, both as a chair and as a delegate since then. In Florian Fermin her spare time, she enjoys doing sports such as inline speed skating and My name is Florian Fermin, I’m Dutch and an International Business horseback riding. student at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. I’ve participated in Her most recent appearance was at MuiMUN, Münster, at the beginning of April this year, more than a dozen MUN conferences since 2009 across North America where she was chairing the Security Council as well. As she has not been to GöMUN before, it and Europe. I’m a big fan of smaller committees at MUNs, and I’m also will be her premiere in Göttingen. very much interested in Asian affairs. This means that GöMUN 2016 is a conference that I cannot miss and I’m very much looking forward to great debates! Sebastian Pape is a student of Economics at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), right at the Polish-German border. Since Laura Wanner 2011 he has been active in the MUN environment as delegate, chair and organizer at conferences in Dresden, Flensburg and also Göttingen. The My name is Laura Wanner. I am 22 years old and I am studying law at passions of former bicycle messenger and viola player are football, pho- Göttingen University. I have been a member of MUN Society Göttingen tography, whisky and other fine spirits. for three years now and I have helped to organise the last three MUN- At the same time when Inga was in Münster, Sebastian experienced his first MUN as Secretary Conferences in Göttingen.