Dear Directors, Chairs, Delegates,
We are so excited to welcome you to the tenth annual MUN@UWCSEA conference, a Decade of Diplomacy. It is our pleasure to serve as your secretariat for this conference.
Today, we face what, in UN-speak, we might call a polycrisis, recovering from the aftermath of COVID-19, reeling from Europe’s most significant conflict and reckoning with a ravaging climate change. In response, the multilateral system has remained under strain. Yet, at UWCSEA, for the last 10 years, Model United Nations stands as a testament to our generation’s hopes that there still might be time to revive the global order.
With our theme in mind, we’ve chosen a range of committees and topics to reflect what the UN has done best for the last ten years, but also what will be important for the UN for the next ten. Many new threats and opportunities lie on the horizon – a particularly salient example emerges from the classroom and the rapid takeover by AI, and perhaps speculated about whether it might take over the world. Between 1980 and 2015, only 2% of UN agendas discussed science and technology while 83% pertained to human rights, development, security and governance measures. Today ….
We celebrate a Decade of Diplomacy to recognise the spirit of collaborating to solve problems despite the dynamic nature of problems that face our world today. With a range of 16 committees and delegates from different parts of the world, we aim to keep that spirit of collaboration and problem solving alive, all while practising the art of diplomacy.
Whether this is your first time at a MUN conference or one of your last, this conference encourages you to practise diplomacy and problem solving, focus on the common goal and unite to solve the issues you are discussing in your committees.
We are excited to watch you learn and grow over the course of this conference.
Yours,
The MUN@UWCSEA 2023 Secretariat
We are so excited to welcome you to the tenth annual MUN@UWCSEA conference, a Decade of Diplomacy. It is our pleasure to serve as your secretariat for this conference.
Today, we face what, in UN-speak, we might call a polycrisis, recovering from the aftermath of COVID-19, reeling from Europe’s most significant conflict and reckoning with a ravaging climate change. In response, the multilateral system has remained under strain. Yet, at UWCSEA, for the last 10 years, Model United Nations stands as a testament to our generation’s hopes that there still might be time to revive the global order.
With our theme in mind, we’ve chosen a range of committees and topics to reflect what the UN has done best for the last ten years, but also what will be important for the UN for the next ten. Many new threats and opportunities lie on the horizon – a particularly salient example emerges from the classroom and the rapid takeover by AI, and perhaps speculated about whether it might take over the world. Between 1980 and 2015, only 2% of UN agendas discussed science and technology while 83% pertained to human rights, development, security and governance measures. Today ….
We celebrate a Decade of Diplomacy to recognise the spirit of collaborating to solve problems despite the dynamic nature of problems that face our world today. With a range of 16 committees and delegates from different parts of the world, we aim to keep that spirit of collaboration and problem solving alive, all while practising the art of diplomacy.
Whether this is your first time at a MUN conference or one of your last, this conference encourages you to practise diplomacy and problem solving, focus on the common goal and unite to solve the issues you are discussing in your committees.
We are excited to watch you learn and grow over the course of this conference.
Yours,
The MUN@UWCSEA 2023 Secretariat