GSIS MUN 2014

1. GSIS MUN 2014 Introduction

2. Everything you need to know www.gsismun.weebly.com

3. Resolutions • Hard copies of resolutions due Thursday, 6/12 • Typed, formatted correctly • Each MUN team contributes to a resolution Heading: Sponsor(s): Delegates: Topic: (or similar heading)

4. Combined resolutions • Maximum co-authors = 3 nations • Friday class: • Present topics of resolutions • Discuss combined resolutions • Vote for two per breakout team for dockets (one per topic) • Emailed as word attachment to barry.gilmore@bellsouth.net by Monday morning, June16 (put country name in subject line)

5. Debate • Session One – Tuesday 6/17 • Topic 1 • Informal dress • Session Two – Sunday 6/22 • Topic 2 • Topic 1 continued by motion • Security Council crisis • Western Business Attire

6. Sample resolution • The cookie issue

7. 1. Sponsor: • 2. Delegates: • 3. Topic of the Resolution: Cookies • 4. TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: • 5. Alarmed by the plans of the United Kingdom, along with its allies, to market and distribute the • 6. product known as Jaffa Cakes® to countries in the EU and around the world, • 7. Acknowledging the imperialist history of the United Kingdom and its practices of forcing • 8. its own cultural agenda on other parts of the world, which it often condescending • 9. refers to as “the third world,” • 10. Further acknowledging that the heretofore mentioned Jaffa Cake® is not, in fact, • 11. a cake, but is actually a cookie, • 12. Deeply regretful of the common practice of the United Kingdom of referring to cookies • 13. by misnomers such as “cake” or the reprehensible “biscuit,” • 14. Noting that such misuse of proper cookie terminology is an offense to cookie-eating • 15. people around the world,

8. 16. THE SOVEREIGN NATIONS OF DO HEREBY: • 17. Urge the General Assembly of the United Nations immediately and officially • 18. to agree that a cookie (herein defined as a confection measuring not less than one-half • 19. inch across nor more than four inches in diameter and under no circumstance more • 20. than one-half inch thick) shall be referred to only as a “cookie,” and not by the less • 21. accurate terms “cake” or “biscuit,” • 22. Further Suggest that the United Kingdom release its product on the international market • 23. under the name Imperialist Cookies®, • 24. Inform this assembly of the sponsors’ intention to abolish all diplomatic ties with the United • 25. Kingdom should that nation insist on its current course of international marketing, • 26. including, but not limited to, the immediate expulsion of UK citizens within the sponsors’ • 27. borders, • 28. Call Upon sister nations who have formerly suffered under the brutal whip of the • 29. western imperial nations to join in this grand cause.

9. Parliamentary Procedure • Always state your name and country • Do not address other delegates directly (avoid “I” and “you”—e.g., “China disagrees with the Russian Federation on the following points…”) • Always yield your remaining time: • To the chair • To another delegate • To questions

10. Parliamentary Procedure • Points (an immediate need) • Of order (chair messed up) • Of personal privilege (you can’t hear) • Of information (question for chair) • Motions (make something happen) • Bring a resolution to the floor • Caucus/informal debate • Close debate/previous question (vote) • Bring an amendment to the floor

11. Questions • ??