Participation is open to university students or interested people
AGED
BETWEEN 18 AND 30 YEARS OLD
You can join our simulation individually, in couples (2 delegates maximum per
commission and per country represented) or in a delegation/group.
You CANNOT represent your home country.
Application forms
Individual
App.
Delegation
App.
Chair App. (already covered!)
Press Team App.
-Send us the complete application form (including the motivation letter),
plus a brief cv to cmun@anue.org
You can join our simulation individually, in couples (2 delegates maximum
per commission and per country represented) or in a group/delegation.
If you are a group/delegation one member of the group has to be the
coordinator. The coordinator should be our contact person, and therefore responsible
of sending us the delegation form with all members of the delegation, and
the individual forms of each one of the members of your delegation.
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-The deadline for applications is March 15th.
Once you have been accepted, you will also have to send us a position paper
of the country you will simulate at C'MUN 2011. You can find guidelines for
the position paper as well as the instructional guide and rules of procedure
of C'MUN at USEFUL INFO.
-The deadline for position papers is March 25th.
Payment instructions
The registration fee for C'MUN 2011 is
80 EUROS (each
delegate).
Special discount for UNA-Spain members: 55
euros (each delegate). f you want to know how to become a
member
click
here.(this only applies for Spanish citizens or Spanish residents).
The fee includes:
• All the required material
• Training session on May 2nd morning (optional. See the
draft
programme.
Please confirm your attendance previously)
• Special cocktail after the opening ceremony (City Hall of Barcelona)
• Coffee-breaks and lunches for the days of the simulation (May 3rd-5th)
at CosmoCaixa
• Social events:
UN
Quiz (Thursday 3rd). Cultural events on Friday 4th:
Picasso
Museum, Sagrada Familia, MNAC (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya), Football
club Barcelona Museum. To attend them, fill this
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and send it to
cmun@anue.org
•
Farewell Dinner
and party (Saturday 5th)
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from you, your participation will be cancelled.
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on the application form. With our acceptance e-mail, you will also be confirmed
to make the payment of the special discounted fee.
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Spanish citizens or Spanish residents), and therefore benefit from the special
discounted fee, tell us in the application form (other comments). Follow the
aferomentioned instructions available on the website to become a member.
We won't refund any fee after March 30th.
THE SECURITY COUNCIL
The responsibility to protect:
• The Arab spring
• The "Horn" of Africa
• Organized crime in Central America and Mexico. 25 years of the Peace
Agreements
By being invoked in the recent intervention in Libya, the concept of the Responsibility
to Protect (R2P) has acquired a new dimension. It seems that no one denies
that there is a R2P and the debate now focuses on how to apply it. But at
the same time, there are several very topical cases on the table that also
require an urgent response and that put in doubt, given the demonstrated inaction,
if the idea of R2P really is the criterion to be followed within the United
Nations.
In the C'MUN 2012, the Security Council addresses the issue of R2P with three
well-known real situations where the need for action is evident. First, a
very topical area of conflict, the so-called Arab spring, where several governments
(the Syrian case is the best known one) are stifling social unrests, defended
as legitimate in the United Nations. If there has been an intervention in
Libya, why not re-do in Syria?
Second, in another sphere, humanitarian, with one case also well known, widespread
hunger in the "Horn" of Africa, where discussion is about the inability of
many governments to supply its population.
And thirdly, and not to shy away from controversy, with the inclusion of systematic
violence in Central America and Mexico, an issue where the conflict is mixed
with transnational organized crime and harms the sovereignty of many countries,
especially Mexico, having areas that are, de facto, subject to the mafias
and criminal groups.
Download the dossier
on the SC topic of debate
Read related news to the Security Council topic: a)
The Arab Spring; b) The
Horn of Africa; c) Central
America & Mexico; SC
news2 (all topics); a)
Arab Spring (2); b) The
Horn of Africa (2);
THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
1. The protection of the right for free association and expression: The
right for peaceful revolt?
1.1. The new forms of expression: the protests on social
networks
2. The regulation and supervision of private military and private security
companies
The so-called "Arab spring" and the social protest movements throughout
the world, "Indignados" and the more recent "99 percent", are bringing a feeling
of rejection and disapproval on politics and economics and, ultimately, about
how the world is organized on the sreets. With various degrees and dimensions,
most of these protests and in some cases, riots, have lived and live frequent
episodes of violence. Confrontations police / army VS protesters puton the
table for discussion the clash between the right to ensure security and order
with the right for free association and peaceful demonstrations (which derives
from the freedom of expression). It is also clear that new technologies, especially
social networks have become the instruments used to canalize and organize
the protest, provoking the censorship and surveillance by the repressive governments.
On the other hand, this "cyberactivity" has already resulted in criminal actions,
dichotomy that highlights the need of a debate about its limits.
As a second topic for discussion by the Human Rights Council we propose a
highly controversial issue that has also marked the peacekeeping operations
lately: is the so-called "privatization of war" an entry for the private military
and private security in a conflict, taking advantage of the lack of the legal
regulation.
Download the dossier on the HRC topic of debate
Read related news to the Human Rights Council: News
collection 1
ECOSOC
Overcoming the crisis with a global economic governance
•
Protection of economic and social rights
• Protection of "the most vulnerable": women, youth and migrants
•
Corruption and accountability
Finding solutions to the global economic crisis has implications of global reach,
some of them beyond the economy itself. The first and most obvious has to do
with global governance, a concept that the collapse of global financial system
has blown up, necessitating their redefinition. As ANUE we believe that the
United Nations should be able to take on the global leadership role in the economic
sphere as well, the reason why in 2012 C'MUN proposes a meeting of ECOSOC where
various economic issues are treated from the perspective that the Nations United
should be the guarantor of a new economic and social order.
First, the debate will focus on economic and social rights that, due to the
crisis, are threatened or currently under heavy debate in several countries.
Is it acceptable to take steps backwards in these areas, leaving behind the
achievements that in some cases have existed for decades, in the name of a possible
overcoming of the crisis? Should the markets be more important then the rights?
Second, and closely linked to the first, the discussion will focus on three
groups whos situation is particularly damaged in these times of crisis: women,
youth and migrants. These are the social sectors that are the most affected
by the crisis, being cruelly beaten by unemployment and job insecurity, poverty
and social exclusion, and in the case of immigrants, by a xenophobic discourse
that also spreads out between politicians and media.
Download the dossier on the ECOSOC topic of debate
Read related news to the ECOSOC Committee:
News
collection 1 -
News
collection 2 -
News
Collection 3
ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
Sustainable development in times of crisis
• RIO +20 Conference
• The future of the nuclear energy
The Rio +20 summit, to be held in June 2012, aims to ensure the renewal of
the political commitment for sustainable development, assess both the progress
and shortcomings in the implementation of the outcomes of major conferences
on sustainable development and meet the new emerging challenges. Rio +20 will
focus on two topics:
a) achieving a green economy in the context of sustainable development and
poverty eradication, with the evident aggravation of being immersed in a global
economic crisis and
b) creating an institutional framework for sustainable development If we talk
about sustainable development, the energy issue is critical in a world that
has overcome the barrier of 7,000 million people, and suffers a lack of resources
that can be catastrophic if the current consumption patterns are maintained.
In this sense, nuclear energy has become the center of the debate, unfortunately,
after the Fukushima disaster. Human security vs. energy dependence then, are
the two central aspects to be added to the debate on sustainable development.
Therefore, the 2012 C'MUN simulate the Rio +20, a few months ahead of the
real summit.
Download
the dossier on the Environment Committee topic of debate
Read related news to the Environment Committee: News
collection 1 - News
collection 2 - News
collection 3
HIGH-LEVEL MEETING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE UN REFORM
1. The admission and expulsion of Member States of the United Nations
2. The participation of new actors in the United Nations:
a) Civil society
b) Non-state actors: supranational, regional and local
c) Business Sector: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the UN.
The lack of agreement on Security Council reform monopolizes the debate on
the UN reform, blocking other key issues that also need revision. Without
a need of going much further, in 2011 we have witnessed the controversial
expulsion and readmission of Libya (a country that has gone through a similar
situation to other countries for which no measures have been taken), and even
more controversial discussion on the admission of Palestine both in the United
Nations and the 16 agencies of the system.
On the other hand, the historic NGOs demand of a greater involvement, that
goes beyond the consultative status, at certain meetings of certain organisms
has now joined the growing perception of distance and even of a lack of connection
with the international organizations regarding citizens, who also call for
a greater representation and influence in the global affairs.
The admission in the United Nations or a greater participation is what also
want the two movements at the extremes of the political representation: on
the one hand, the supranational (EU, African Union) and, on the other, the
territories without their own state, ranging from 16 colonies left in the
world to territories with close political and economic powers to an independent
state (Greenland, Macao and Hong Kong, Cook Islands), and through many historical
nations with an uneven recognition, or the anomalous case of Taiwan.
In the year 2000 the United Nations launched the Global Compact in order to
promote corporate social responsibility and to involve companies in the defense
of human rights, labor rights, environment, and the fight against corruption.
So far, more than 8,700 companies around the world have joined the initiative
that, on the other hand, has a scarce and largely unregulated iternational
structure and is often criticized for the lack of effectiveness in monitoring
the implementation of the commitments. In a world where it is clear that the
power and business conditions the international politics, an existence of
a representation of this sector, which in turn makes the accountability possible,
is imperative.
Download the C'MUN Resolution
announcing the High-Level Meeting of the C’MUN General Assembly 2012
Download the
full dossier on the GA High Level Meeting topic of debate
Read related news to the ECOSOC Committee: News
collection 1
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
War crimes of NATO in Libya
Pending the announced legal proceedings against the regime of former dictator
Gaddafi, 2012 C'MUN propose the exciting reverse side of the coin in a perfectly
plausible exercise of the political fiction: for NATO to appear in court and
determine whether their intervention in Libya ivolved committing war crimes.
Translating the existing charges in political fiction, the process would begin
when the 33 member states of the African Union that signed the Rome Statute,
would prosecute the 14 NATO members along with United Arab Emirates and Qatar,
who participated in the operation in Libya begun on 19 March and concluded
on October 31, 2011, under the mandate of Resolution 1973 of the Security
Council of the UN. The plaintiffs accuse NATO of exceeding in their performance
of the resolution, going beyond the establishing a no-fly zone, and of committing
acts qualifiable as crimes of war, with the ultimate intention of overthrowing
the Libyan government. The parties and the judges of the Court shall discuss
and make decisions that affect accountability in armed conflict, but also
the implementation of the Responsibility to Protect, the UN mandates, and
the legitimacy of the actors who reach the state sovereignty.
Download the dossier
on the ICC topic of debate
Read the Amnesty International's report "The
Forgotten Victims of NATO Strikes"
