Be aware though that resolutions are not all like Congressional bills. The international environment is anarchic, and resolutions are recommendations for the most part, not directives. The exception to this is the Security Council where resolutions are binding on Member States. The Model United Nations Conference delegate is assigned a nation, sometimes a common one for his entire school and a committee. Each delegate is expected to conduct research on the country and chosen topics and to represent the country accurately at conferences.
Delegates truly gets out of a conference what they put in.
For more information about this course, contact Wes Chapin . The opportunity to enhance one's public speaking skills and to debate international issues with other students is what has made Model United Nations Conferences so popular. We believe in letting the delegates create their own simulation of debate, within rules, of course, and in facilitating international debate and the attempts to solve problems that the real U.N. has sometimes failed at. The accomplishment of achieving one's own goals in a resolution or in getting one country's own point across in debate is what attracts so many students to the Model U.N. experience. The complexities of many issues and well as international negotiation itself provide many obstacles to the M.U.N. delegate.