NAME: Gregory Cui, Model UN
TITLE: Restoring food security in Western Africa.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Members of the economic community of West African States, namely Benin, Burkina, Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
SUMMARY: “The solution to creating food security in West Africa is an indirect one. Many West African nations are similar in that they possess valuable natural resource reserves but lack the funds, technology, or infrastructure to make use of them. As a result remain stagnant … The United Nations, through the International Development Agency, must provide grants and interest-free loans to West African Nations to allow them to more effectively tap into their own resources.”
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Proposal #396
Jul 8
Proposal #393/271
Jul 8
(393)NAME: David Hays, Model UN
TITLE: Rectifying a heinous violation of human rights: banning capital punishment from the United States of America.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Due to current nationwide misjudgment, the banning of capital punishment in the United States would remove over 3,300 inmates who currently sit, violated on death row. Further, all legal systems would have to be revised so that naive juries cannot estrange criminals from their basic right to life and freedom from draconian punishment. When the moral remedy is provided, more prison space will be needed to that inmates will be able to suffer in confinement for their life, rather than having their life mercifully taken from them.
SUMMARY: “Our founding fathers signed a sacred document into law, that provided protection from ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ forcibly ending a man’s life is a direct violation fir this provision. Further, the UN Declaration of Human Rights decrees that all humans shall be free from ‘unhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment.”
(271)NAME: Jared Thompson, Kentucky
TITLE: A proposal to abolish the death penalty in all fifty states.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: The United States prison and Court systems
SUMMARY: “Not only does the death penalty fall under cruel and unusual punishment (as defined by the 8th Amendment), it is also an ineffective deterrent.”
The Northeast Regional Model United Nations conference convened at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania January 9-11, 2009. The conference drew approximately 1200 delegates hailing from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and New York.
New Jersey resident Dan Morse led the conference in the role of Secretary General. He was supported by a team of forty-five chairs and vice chairs who ran a variety of committees.
The student and adult leadership teams of Model UN collaborated to enact three major changes to the conference. A conference-wide theme of climate change was established. Consequently, each committee devoted time to tackling this far-reaching issue from a different angle. Additionally, the conference included an Ambassadors’ Dinner, during which delegates were seated according to the countries they were representing. Thirdly, delegates and officers were surprised by the introduction of an international crisis scenario, which was designed primarily by MUN college advisors.
Though the delegates enjoyed and learned from debate time in committee, the impact of Model UN was more profound than the knowledge they gained. Said Morse: “I think what the conference became for me, and for a lot of people is, that they didn’t know how it would affect them. The emotions, messages, and tone it brought is something people don’t expect.”