Model United Nations attempts to synthesize nonviolent resolutions with political action. Often, the issues become segregated into different areas of expertise or agenda topics. Some of these include Health and Human Services, Human Rights, General Security, Economics, and the Environment. But sometimes, MUN fails to bring these different ideas and resolutions together. In world affairs, all aspects are interwoven into a tapestry of human life. Economics pertains directly to the environment. Health and Human Services coincides with the goals of human rights. And so it continues. 

The inter-connectivity of these issues can be seen in two controversial and contentious topics in today's society: the hijab and ISIS. 

The hijab is a source of controversy in both Western and Eastern nations. The recent activities of ISIS have seemingly plunged the world back into the frigid and tense atmosphere following the attacks on 9/11.




Much of ISIS's recent agitation derives from a discrepancy between the values of traditionally conservative Muslim states and the progressive, natural rights driven philosophy of much of the Western world. This heated disagreement appears in the resistance in countries like France to integration and also the laws in countries like Iran which prohibit women to enter the streets without first donning a hijab. Thus, this head garment symbolizes much more than just a piece of cloth wrapped around someone's head. It symbolizes the meeting and battling of two different schools of thought, creating animosity and a tendency toward violence that has erupted in the Middle East in recent weeks.

In France, children are not allowed to wear their niqabs (full-face veils) to school in affirmation of the policy known as loi de laicite. In English jargon, this refers to the separation of church and state, a principle the French democracy takes so seriously that mothers cannot even wear their berkas (a full-body and full-face hijab) to pick up their children. Here, the interstitial relations between Human Rights and Global Security comes to fruition. ISIS and their heinous actions compromise Global Security and have become a major topic for world issues, especially when the potential for a non-violent resolution looks increasingly slim. Yet ISIS cannot be examined just in the context of a Global Security issue. Its ramifications extend beyond the increased security risk and degradation of human life to the underlying issue of that conflict of value between Western and Eastern nations.

Though the hijab and ISIS might seem on entirely different scales, in entirely different spheres, they are manifestations of the same problem. Western and Eastern philosophies, including conflicts between Christianity and Islam, have differences that, up to this point, have been irreconcilable.

To read more:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-paranoid-but-determined-islamic-state-is-ready-for-a-fightto-the-death-in-mosul-10052377.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28106900