Thanks so much for spirted discussions as we took Marvel out for a test run to explore U.N. style debate. This week, you will work with diplomatic partners to tackle some real world issues.
Your goal is to study a current global problem and write a short resolution and directive to present to the General Assembly. You can learn more about how to write resolutions and directives by carefully reading your Delegate's Handbook.
Issues to be studied in class include:
Education in Sierra Leone
The Space Race to Mars
The Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka
Global Health During a Pandemic
While you will, of course, receive classroom packets, you will want to open these online versions to link to the research that needs to be completed.
Your goal is to study a current global problem and write a short resolution and directive to present to the General Assembly. You can learn more about how to write resolutions and directives by carefully reading your Delegate's Handbook.
Issues to be studied in class include:
Education in Sierra Leone
The Space Race to Mars
The Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka
Global Health During a Pandemic
While you will, of course, receive classroom packets, you will want to open these online versions to link to the research that needs to be completed.
This activity gives you another chance to boost your learning through conversation with others. To be successful, please build your skills and deepen your understanding by practicing the following conversational norms:
- Use “I” statements
- Really listen, seek to understand
- Ask for clarification
- Stay engaged
- Lean into discomfort
Steps to Success
- Read the questions in your packet First.
- Use the questions to guide your group’s reading of the packet. Read the packet together and underline or highlight key ideas or answers to questions as you go.
- At the end of each handout are links to material about your Committee topic. Divide the research and take notes as you read so that you can share key ideas with your group.
- Share ideas about solutions for your Committee’s topic. You will propose the solutions you come up with to the General Assembly. Be ready to clearly state why the solutions you propose will solve your committee’s issue of study.
- Ask yourself, how does your committee’s solution fulfill the mission of the United Nations to promote peace, dignity, and equality on a healthy planet. You will be strongest in front of the General Assembly if you can state how your solution promotes those core goals of the United Nations.
- Collaborate to write your Committee’s Resolution and Directive. Review the samples provided in your Delegate’s Handbook before beginning. Resolutions are formal expressions of the opinion or will of UN organs.
- Directives are similar to resolutions, but they do not include preambulatory clauses and are much shorter and more concise. Directives are generally written in response to a specific crisis update, and can be as short as two or three clauses.Another way to think about the difference between the two is that Resolutions are a call to action and directives are the action-steps that need to be taken.
- Practice presenting your resolution and be ready to answer questions from the General Assembly.
U.N. The World at Work!
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