Work
on the project is in several phases:
1) Preliminary Research
As soon as countries are allocated, delegates
carry out preliminary research to ensure that
they are able to represent their country’s
position accurately in a forum of international
debate. Students should get their research underway
as soon as possible. See
D: HOW TO RESEARCH YOUR COUNTRY.
2) Producing Draft Resolutions
This year, each delegation will produce two
draft resolutions in advance of the conference,
one for each commission. From day one, therefore,
students should be on the lookout for issues
of international importance that concern their
country and which might make suitable topics
for draft resolutions.
All draft resolutions must be written in the
correct MUN format, and should be no longer
than one side of A4 paper in 12 point type.
Resolutions which do not meet the right format
will be automatically rejected.
The theme for all resolutions at the conference
this year is International Crises. Hence, an
Environmental Commissioner should look for an
environmental crisis which affects their country
in some way; an ECOSOC Commissioner should look
for an economic or social crisis which affects
their country in some way. This doesn’t
necessarily mean an issue which is within their
country – merely one in which their country
takes an interest.
Draft resolutions must be emailed to Tom Vignoles
at The Sultan’s School on mun@sultansschool.org
by no later than Wednesday 28th December 2005.
(Please note the double ‘s’ in the
email address!)
See E: DRAFTING RESOLUTIONS
and a number of SAMPLE RESOLUTIONS.
3) Selection of Draft
Resolutions for the Conference
This year, there are two routes to having your
draft resolution accepted for debate.
i) Using the same procedure as last year, The
Resolutions Committee will select two resolutions
which are ‘fast-tracked’ for debate
in The General Assembly, in Session Two of the
Conference. These two resolutions will be circulated
to all delegates by mid-January. This gives
delegations the opportunity to investigate in
detail their country’s position on these
two issues in advance of the Conference. It
also gives delegates the opportunity to prepare
flexible speeches on these resolutions.
See F: FINAL PREPARATION
FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
ii) When the two ‘fast-tracked’
resolutions are notified to delegates, each
Commissioner will also receive by email a list
of the email addresses for every other member
of their Commission, as well as the Concerning
Clause of every submitted draft resolution.
This will then allow the process of Pre-Conference
Lobbying to begin, which will ultimately result
in a number of draft resolutions being selected
for debate at the Conference in The Commissions,
in Session One.
See J: SELECTING RESOLUTIONS FOR COMMISSIONS.
4) Pre-Conference Lobbying,
Merging of Resolutions and Emergency Resolutions
Once Commissioners have received notification
of the email addresses of all other delegations
and the list of the Concerning Clauses of all
bar the two fast-tracked resolutions, the process
of Pre-Conference Lobbying is ready to begin.
At this stage,
Commissioners should identify other countries
who appear to have similar concerns and, through
email lobbying, seek to ‘merge’
resolutions with these other countries –
in other words, seek to produce a single draft
resolution which is co-sponsored by more than
one delegation. The aim is to obtain between
five and ten co-sponsors for your resolution.
Please bear in mind that each Commissioner is
only allowed to sign up their country as co-sponsor
for one resolution.
Exceptionally, at this stage a Commissioner
may substitute an Emergency Resolution for their
original draft resolution. This will only be
allowed if their own country has genuinely experienced
a major crisis in the intervening period since
their original draft resolution was submitted
(eg a major natural disaster, a major influx
of refugees, the start of a war).
See G: PRE-CONFERENCE
LOBBYING, H: MERGING RESOLUTIONS and
I: EMERGENCY RESOLUTIONS.
5) Selection of Draft Resolutions
for Commissions
As ten is the maximum number of co-sponsors
for any resolution, any delegation who succeeds
in obtaining ten co-sponsors should immediately
email their resolution to mun@sultansschool.org
. Such resolutions have a very strong chance
of being accepted for debate, so long as the
correct format and procedures have been followed.
On or before Tuesday 14th February, all delegations
who have succeeded in obtaining at least one
co-sponsor for their draft resolution should
email their resolution to mun@sultansschool.org.
On Wednesday 15th February, The Resolutions
Committee will meet to select the resolutions
for debate in the Commissions. These will normally
be the resolutions with the most support, but
the rules allow for the selection of one ‘Wild-Card’
resolution for each Commission which may not
have much support as yet but which The Resolutions
Committee feel is likely to generate stimulating
debate. See J: SELECTING RESOLUTIONS FOR COMMISSIONS
for full details of the selection criteria.
Resolutions accepted for debate in commissions
will be posted on the soon to be created Oman
MUN Website. Details of how to access these
resolutions will be notified to you nearer the
time. Commissioners then have just under a week
to prepare their position on the Resolutions
accepted for debate.
See K: FINAL PREPARATION
FOR COMMISSIONS.
6) The Second Oman Model United
Nations Conference – 22nd to 23rd February
2006
At the Conference, there will be three sessions:
Session One: Commissions
– Wed pm
Session Two: General Assembly: Fast-tracked
resolutions – Thurs am.
Session Three: General Assembly: Resolutions
passed by Commissions– Thurs pm
The final programme for the Conference will
be circulated nearer the time.
See L : RULES OF
PROCEDURE for details of the format for
the debates.
