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这些宝贵的经验基本上是根据三位来此会议参观的美国教授的建议编辑而成。希望能对大家有用！ Tips for a better MUN conference By Eric Cheung, University of International Relations 2007-6-17 The first Model United Nations held by the Beijing Model United Nations Union took place on 26th, 27th May, 2007 at the University of International Relations. Three professors form University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA――Dean, Aart and Don joined us in the last session of the conference and another meeting of experience exchange. The following tips are base on the precious suggestions of the three professors. For the organizations: How to prepare a better MUN? Get the money, go international. Let the administration understand that is the way kids learn things. Without the experience of participating MUN, I would not have been who I am today. For the chairs and directors: How to better control the conference and keep correct Parliamentary Procedures: 1. Chair is encouraged to warn the Delegate before the time is expired, so they will not stop awkwardly. 2. The Chair could entertain a motion to limit the debate to a specific topic area. By doing this, the Chair can lead the conference to the direction he or she expected. 3. The Chair is supposed to repeat to purpose of the motion. 4. ‘Pass ’ means the delegate would like to go back to vote later, not abstain. 5. When introducing a motion, it’s better to just read the motion word by word, from top to bottom plainly, because each of the words carries so much weight. Don’t be hurry to sell it, analyze it, and explain it. You will have the opportunity to do it, but getting other delegates to read into what you have written. For the Delegates: How to ensure an excellent performance? Role play: 1. Research, as sufficiently as you can. Research on the following area could be very helpful: a. Speeches of the foreign minister or other officials of the county which you are representing. b. Voting behaviour of the country: Has you country voted for or against a resolution on the topic. And from this, what does your country value? What image is it trying to project? c. Feeling your country! Ask yourself what your people want? d. Check the CIA factbook (available at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html ) to find out the backgrounds of your country: resources, infrastructures, exports-imports, international law conflict, railway, trade-oriented or mainly agriculture. Obtaining these facts is very important to form a good basis for your later debate On better public speeches: 1. Videotape an individual’s speech, and analyse it, ideally in a group, so that you can pick up each others’ weaknesses and be clear about your strengths for further improvements. Everybody can learn from this process. 2. Empathizing! Feel your country, not just study it. Dan had been to a small foreign country once. After returning, he found he have a complete feeling when he look at the map. He said to himself:“I’ve left my footprints at that corner of the earth” This experience has brought him a closeness and different feeling about the place he had been to. On writing the documents 1. Know what the UN has done in the past and demonstrate it in the Perambulatory Clauses section in your DR by words of Recalling, Reaffirming, etc. This is important because you have to know your starting point, which would make you have a clearer idea about where you are going to. 2. It would be better to find a more specific topic so that the conference would be more focused. (Peacekeeping, for instance, is a little bit to general, and to board) 3. Attach due importance to the UN Charter. There has to be somewhere in the UN Charter that allows you to do what you want to do. What article? What section numbers? This would make you more invulnerable, and you can defend your points. At the same time, you can of course stretch your interpretation. It is important to find a good interpretation. For instance, the UN Charters doesn’t allow invasion into other countries, but you can interpret it as an action of defending yourself, because the acquisition of the Weapons of Mass Destruction will definitely put your country at bay. 4. The Draft Resolution is a long sentence. No period appears until at the end. 5. Try to avoid mistakes, especially those grammatical ones which can be avoided in advance. Mistakes, no matter how small, shall be the subjects of attack form these against you. And such attacks would reduce the momentum which you have tried so hard to gain. The director might say ‘this is not what we want, let’s find another one’. Instead the interest and attention will be directed at other teams. So bear in mind how the documents are formatting. 6. A big conference should have the Working paters, DRs photocopied and distributed to every delegate to keep them all up to date. But it is perfect OK for a small conference to take advantage of the projector. 7. It’s utterly important to be a good listener. a. Talk to those who have been left out by the conference at the corner, and try to find out what are they thinking about, what they care about. b. Being a good listener means you can cover all the things that actually been discussed in the conference, which would make delegates think that your paper is good. c. On that score, you need to be more careful when you decide that you have listened enough and go out to write your papers. Strike a balance, and be swift. 8. Make others feel that your paper is also part of their work. It’s all about ownership. If you could make others feel that they own part of the paper you support, they will support it, too. So, try to get others into your work, invite them to make a change, a word, a comma will all do, even it is a stupid change, it will make a real difference. And tell them how important the change is, express your gratitude for their participation. The other extreme you might go to is not allowing any adaption form any other delegates. Doing this means being arrogant, this would not contribute to your success. (Dan made this mistake in his 1st MUN experience, and he learned form this) 9. You have to do something to prevent your or your team’s ideas from being stolen by others. a. Form a tighter team in which everyone is committed to contribute, to create, to do something down to earth. There should be an atmosphere of trust, and keeping secrets within this tight team. At the same time try to form a broader group, but don’t let the members get a copy of your papers, or at least try not to make it easy. You can say:‘ Hei, this is our work, feel free to read it. We just don’t have a copy.’ 10. It’s better to be the 1st Draft Resolution to be introduced. This is where the political science becomes an art—write quickly and write well. 11. Writing a good position papers does two things: a. To show your understanding of your national interest. b. To show your knowledge of what the international community has done. 12. You can be a cool delegate. Your 1st impression should be ‘what’s up’. Don’t be eager to get down to business. Be professional, be fun. 13. Some female delegates might be spoken over with. Be assertive. If some guys cut into you talk, just tell them ‘I am talking. You are interrupting me. I wasn’t interrupting you when you talked’. They may be surprised, but they will respect you. Actually all those famous females in politics are all such people—Thatcher for example. You may not like them, but you can’t look around when they are present.

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