The Start of a New Year
Hello world! We are the LOHS MUN Planning Team. This year we will be taking 100+ kids down to Eugene, Oregon for the annual Model United Nations Conference in April. We have just started the work necessary for this endeavor. Our goal as a group is to increase awareness of world issues and encourage positive, non-violent resolutions to these problems. With this, we hope to engage young people with the world around them and promote a global worldview, rather than just the American perspective.
Position Papers should start coming in for us to read in a couple of weeks. These position papers represent the perspective of each delegate's country on the topics of their respective committees. Committees include:
General Assembly 1 and 2
Global Security
Human Rights
Health and Human Services
Global Economics
Environment
Students choose their committee based upon their interests and then further explore the issues in the committees through their position papers. They will be working toward an eventual resolution to the problem, which will then be debated in April. Resolutions will be discussed in a later blog post.
The key to organization for our planning team is the massive, all-encompassing binder. It keeps all of our papers, applications, and lists together in one place. Then, when different members of the planning team embark on various activities, such as copying, blogging, emailing, calling, etc., the materials return to one specified place. For instance, with the rapid influx of applications at the beginning of the year, we alphabetized them and placed them in the binder. This saved us organizational head-aches when we compiled email lists and facebook groups.
Meet the 2014-2015 Planning Team:
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