Project Reflection:
1: What is the Model United Nations?
The UN is an international organization tasked to resolve global issues. They have conferences with a delegate from every country involved to talk through global issues and crisis’ to come up with solutions. The United Nations official website claims, “Our mission is to keep the maintenance of international peace and security.” Each delegate has a resolution they want to pass and the chair (Person who is sitting in the front controlling the meeting) picks two resolutions they think would be most agreed upon for the delegate to discuss. After talking about each resolution and delegates discussing why they agree/disagree with one or the other, they call a roll call vote to see which resolution should pass. Once one is chosen the meeting is adjourned. Then the resolution is put to action. The MUN (Model United Nations) is pretty self explanatory after you understand what the UN does. It is where a group of people who are not a part of the UN, come together and do the exact same thing that the UN does. The only difference is, it takes a lot less time, and they resolutions obviously aren’t put to action because it is not the real deal.
2: How did you strengthen (or not strengthen) your skills during this project? How did you stretch yourself? Although throughout this project I was not very excited for the end project because it pretty stressful and very hard to figure out all the details, once the conference was over, I was very proud of this project. The part I am most proud of was probably all of the papers we were required to write. During this project, we wrote two policy papers, two resolutions and a speech. All of these I feel, although difficult to write, I think did very well and worked hard on. Another thing I am proud of myself for is the actual conference. We had the option to present our speeches and I was not planning on doing so. Once the speakers list reopened, I decided it would be smart to just present my speech. In the past, public speaking was, in my opinion, the most difficult thing ever, but i figured this was the perfect opportunity to grow in public speaking and go out of my comfort zone, and I am very proud of myself for doing so. During this project the hardest part was learning Parliamentary Procedure. Talking in this way is very proper and it can be very difficult to understand. I overcame this by listening to others and translating it into normal english. Overall, I am glad we did this project because I never would have learned about the United Nations if we hadn’t.
3: How did this project change your thinking about global issues? What enduring understandings about the world will you take away, and why?
It definitely changed my perspective on global issue greatly. I always knew about both of these issues but I had never researched as deeply as we did. I have much more sympathy for those who are affected by these issues considering it is not impacting me very deeply at all. It was very interesting, but also hard, to do this from the perspective of a country that I knew nothing about. Researching was long and tetius. It was difficult to figure out what Japan agreed/disagreed with in both of these issues because the only people who know these things are from Japan, and they are not going to put why they (for example) don’t want refugees in their country, on the internet. Even though it was problematic for me to find information, it was worth it telling people information from my countries perspective and also interesting hearing what other countries think about these issues and how everyone is dealing with them differently.
1: What is the Model United Nations?
The UN is an international organization tasked to resolve global issues. They have conferences with a delegate from every country involved to talk through global issues and crisis’ to come up with solutions. The United Nations official website claims, “Our mission is to keep the maintenance of international peace and security.” Each delegate has a resolution they want to pass and the chair (Person who is sitting in the front controlling the meeting) picks two resolutions they think would be most agreed upon for the delegate to discuss. After talking about each resolution and delegates discussing why they agree/disagree with one or the other, they call a roll call vote to see which resolution should pass. Once one is chosen the meeting is adjourned. Then the resolution is put to action. The MUN (Model United Nations) is pretty self explanatory after you understand what the UN does. It is where a group of people who are not a part of the UN, come together and do the exact same thing that the UN does. The only difference is, it takes a lot less time, and they resolutions obviously aren’t put to action because it is not the real deal.
2: How did you strengthen (or not strengthen) your skills during this project? How did you stretch yourself? Although throughout this project I was not very excited for the end project because it pretty stressful and very hard to figure out all the details, once the conference was over, I was very proud of this project. The part I am most proud of was probably all of the papers we were required to write. During this project, we wrote two policy papers, two resolutions and a speech. All of these I feel, although difficult to write, I think did very well and worked hard on. Another thing I am proud of myself for is the actual conference. We had the option to present our speeches and I was not planning on doing so. Once the speakers list reopened, I decided it would be smart to just present my speech. In the past, public speaking was, in my opinion, the most difficult thing ever, but i figured this was the perfect opportunity to grow in public speaking and go out of my comfort zone, and I am very proud of myself for doing so. During this project the hardest part was learning Parliamentary Procedure. Talking in this way is very proper and it can be very difficult to understand. I overcame this by listening to others and translating it into normal english. Overall, I am glad we did this project because I never would have learned about the United Nations if we hadn’t.
3: How did this project change your thinking about global issues? What enduring understandings about the world will you take away, and why?
It definitely changed my perspective on global issue greatly. I always knew about both of these issues but I had never researched as deeply as we did. I have much more sympathy for those who are affected by these issues considering it is not impacting me very deeply at all. It was very interesting, but also hard, to do this from the perspective of a country that I knew nothing about. Researching was long and tetius. It was difficult to figure out what Japan agreed/disagreed with in both of these issues because the only people who know these things are from Japan, and they are not going to put why they (for example) don’t want refugees in their country, on the internet. Even though it was problematic for me to find information, it was worth it telling people information from my countries perspective and also interesting hearing what other countries think about these issues and how everyone is dealing with them differently.
Policy Paper #1: Refugee Crisis |
Policy Paper #2: Climate Change Issue |
Resolution #1: Refugee Crisis |
Resolution #2: Climate Change Issue |
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