Model UN

Nuke Disarmament
 Model United Nations

• Key question: For one UN model, we will discuss the nuclear

disarmament issues in Korean Peninsula, India-Pakistan
conflict, and Iran.

• Your own position is not important at all; you have to loyally

represent the country;
 2.1 Random Selection of
Country Representatives

• Identify key actors involved in the issues, at least including the

five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Saudi
Arabia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, India, Pakistan;

• The selection should be conducted at least 1 week before the

formal event;
 2.1 Roll Call

• chairman: roll call (the chairman read the country names in the
alphabetical order; and the country - when being called - raises their
placard, and reply “country name present”.

• Students are expected to come on time, and those who are late will
lose marks in the final grading;
 2.2 Opening Speech
• Student is expected to deliver a professional speech on the
official positions of the country he represent at the beginning of
Model UN; the speech should be 2 minutes (the length of
speech may vary across sessions with different class sizes) long;

• Other students should take notes when others deliver the speech,
and those notes will help the students in the following debate
sessions;
 2.3.1 When the instructors want the students to choose the sub-topics
for further discussion: Motion and debate

• Students can propose to discuss a specific topic related with the nuke disarmament (the
topic that you have prepared before, and you think is very important and should be further
discussed in the Model UN);

• The motion speech should be 1 minute long at most;

• Students will vote after all the proposals one by one are collected; and those motions that
win a simple majority will be discussed in the following section; if no motions are passed,
then we will go to next session;

• Motions that win a simple majority will be discussed then; the chairman will open the
speakers’ list, and students who are willing to express their opinions on this specific topic
can register in the speakers’ list, and give a short speech on the issues (1 minute speech)

• A short resolution can be voted again at the end of the motion

 2.3.1 When the instructors designate the sub-topics for further
discussion: Debate

• Several topics related with the topic will be designated by the

instructor before the model UN;

• the chairman will open the speakers’ list, and students who are
willing to express their opinions on this specific topic can
register in the speakers’ list, and give a short speech on the
issues (1 minute speech)

• A short resolution can be voted again at the end of the motion;

 2.4 Special Debate

• The chairman will open the speakers’ list for the special debate; Students who want to criticize
other countries, and request other countries to clarify the latter’s positions on the issue/a specific
issue related with the nuke proliferation can register in the speaker’s list;

• Students can target a specific country, criticize the latter’s positions on the topic, and the latter must
respond; the “attacker” and “defender’s” speeches should be within a minute;
 2.4 Concluding Speech

• Students will deliver a concluding speech at the end of the Model

UN;

• In the concluding speech, the students should reiterate the positions

of countries they represent, and possibly highlight their positions on
the sub-topics extensively discussed in the Model UN;