Preparing for the Fall 2014
Stark County High School
Model United Nations
(SCHMUN)
A guide for teachers and students
Thursday, November 20, 2014

1.
Welcome to students and teachers
2.
Country assignments
3.
Our three issues this fall
4.
Steps in the process

 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

 Thank you!!
 Professional Development Contact Hours are available
 Questions on practical matters?

 Delegation assignments: http://schmun.wikispaces.com/Roster+of+Delegations
 Any problems or changes?

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”

 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)

 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

 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)

Broader problem: Violent groups rising in weak or failed states
 Al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan
 Houthis in Yemen
 Al Shabab in Somalia

 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?

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?

 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=techn ology&Cr1=#.UoTfOL-Abww
 Spying and Security Breaches
 Wikileaks (Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange)
 Edward Snowden and NSA revelations of spying

 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_Partners hip_Against_Cyber_Threats

A. Researching
B.
Writing resolutions
C.
Getting resolutions to the full floor
D. Rules of procedure

 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

 Each committee will be allowed to pass only TWO resolutions (for a total of six that will go the full
Assembly)

 See handout (pink paper) and hold onto it
 Also posted on the website: http://schmun.wikispaces.com

 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!