MUN 2009/2010
22 June, 2009 at 5:21 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentWe’re all preparing for the next academic year and I would like to invite all new fresher’s to check out this website (although a lot of information is a little outdated) and join our facebook group: Aber MUN Society. If anyone has any ideas for conferences, events, or the possible home court conference please voice them!
SC session on the situation in Kenya
30 January, 2008 at 12:54 am | In MUN meeting info | 1 CommentTags: abermun, kenya, model un, mun, sc, security council, un, united nations
Hi all,
Our next session on Monday the 4th will be a Security Council session on the current situation of political and ethnic violence in Kenya. As this is a crisis which is unfolding, you should refer to news sources for research (I suggest BBC News), and know the latest development on the issue Monday, as we will be doing this in “real-time”.
Hopefully we can get as many people as last time – feel free to pick a country in the comment section below if you wish.
Aberystwyth Model UN Conference 2008
15 January, 2008 at 10:12 pm | In Conferences, Society news | 1 CommentTags: abermun, abermun08, aberystwyth, conference, model un, mun, un, united nations
Hi all,
As some of you may know, we intend to arrange a large-scale Model UN conference in April. Well, today our website is finally online which means we can start recruiting delegates. We hope to get as many delegates as possible – we will be operating with an upper limit of around 70 people, from Aberystwyth as well as the rest of the UK.
Continue reading Aberystwyth Model UN Conference 2008…
United States embargo on Cuba
14 January, 2008 at 5:40 pm | In MUN meeting info | 2 CommentsTags: abermun, cold war, cuba, embargo, meeting, model un, mun, un, us embargo on cuba, usa
Hi all,
It’s time to get started again after the holidays and a frustrating exam period. Our first MUN meeting will be on 28 January, where we will be discussing the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. It will be held in the Library Seminar Room in Hugh Owen, at 6PM as usual. Since I’m currently busy revising I’m gonna leave the research to you, I’m sure you can find something on your own.
The following week’s session (on 4 Feb) will be the last meeting before LIMUN, and it is ESSENTIAL that everyone who is coming to LIMUN shows up on at least one of these two sessions, in order to go through details about the trip. We have rented the Union minibus and will be driving to London, and need to confirm how many people are staying at our hotel – I assume everyone is coming along in the minibus. We’ll go through costs, accommodation, etc in these meetings, but there are other things we need to sort out as well, in order to comply with the bureaucratic nightmare that is the student union. 
If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email as always.
The Future of the UN Discussion
1 December, 2007 at 6:02 pm | In MUN meeting info | 1 CommentTags: abermun, future of the un, model un, mun, un reform, united nations
Many thanks to all those who attended our Christmas conference this Saturday. I hope you all had fun, albeit at the expense of the Israeli and US delegates.
As our next meeting will clash with crisis games, our numbers shall likely be a little down. As such, we’ll not be holding a full meeting this coming Monday (3rd December). Instead, we’ll be holding an informal discussion on ‘the future of the UN’. It should be fun, and will allow us to problematize more fully some of the criticisms implicit in our debates.
As ever, it shall begin at 6:10, though we’ll likely be holding this in the Art Centre as opposed to the Library Seminar Room. We’d like to gain an idea of numbers before the meeting so as to ensure that it’s worthwhile to continue with it. If you are coming, please email me (tjm6@aber.ac.uk) or reply to this post and let me know you’ll be there.
Peace and love.
Peace, security & reunification on the Korean peninsula
20 November, 2007 at 11:08 am | In MUN meeting info | 1 CommentTags: abermun, limun, meeting
We will be having a regular debate next Monday, regarding on the topic of peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula. This willl be of particular interest to the two Koreas, prominently represented at AberMUN. The UN General Assembly discussed the matter a few weeks ago, and a link to a summary of the debate is provided below. In the interest of good debate however, I hope the US is willing to throw out a few curveballs regarding communism in the true style of Senator McCarthy. Meeting is as usual in the Library Seminar Room at 6PM.
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11250.doc.htm
I’m pleased to announce that we have been allocated countries and committees for LIMUN 2008. Excellent as these countries are, I will not tell you which countries until the meeting next Monday – that way I hope to get the numbers up for that session, especially since several of you have yet to pay the £20 delegate fee for LIMUN. Let me remind you that I have personally paid the fee for you, and I am setting a deadline for payments for 7 December, which is when I go home for Christmas.
Next meeting
14 November, 2007 at 7:57 pm | In MUN meeting info | 1 CommentTags: abermun, meeting
Since everyone seems to be busy with essays, we’ve decided to drop the usual debate for the upcoming Monday (i.e. the 19th), and we’re going to be meeting in the Arts Centre Cafe for some cakes and relaxing conversations instead. Feel free to come along.
DDMI events
12 November, 2007 at 2:13 pm | In Miscellaneous | 1 CommentTags: abermun, conference, ddmi, event
As you may know, the David Davies Memorial Institute (DDMI) has been a strong supporter of AberMUN Society this year. They have pledged support to various events to be hosted by us, in particular our Model UN conference which is to be held in early-mid April 2008.
On Friday the 23rd of November, and the following Saturday, the DDMI and UNA Wales is hosting a research skill training workshop and conference in Aberystwyth, hosting a range of prominent speakers on the topics of the Future of the International Nuclear Order (workshop, Friday) and Prospects for Trust-Building between the West and Iran (conference, Saturday). These conferences are free of charge, and with the speakers that have been confirmed (see below), they promise to be of the highest quality. The AberMUN Secretariat will be represented at the conferences and we hope to see as many as possible of our members there.
Note that if you wish to attend any of these, you need to send an email to Dr. Rachel Owen at the DDMI at ddmstaff [at] aber.ac.uk. This way the DDMI will know how many people are attending.
Please read on for further information about the events, courtesy of the DDMI.
News from CIMUN XIII
12 November, 2007 at 1:56 pm | In Society news | 1 CommentTags: abermun, cimun, cimun 2007, cimun xiii, conference, mun
It’s now Monday afternoon, and two of the society’s members took part in the 8th annual Cambridge International Model UN. We had a very good weekend, representing the Republic of France in the Security Council and the ECOSOC. Though the sudden and somewhat dramatic nature of our application was very unfortunate – we would have wanted to see more of our delegates taking part, it was nonetheless a very enjoyable experience. In addition to the verbal punchups of CIMUN, we also enjoyed various social events hosted by the Secretariat of CIMUN. Among these was a committe meal, wherein AberMUN’s Secretary-General tried sushi for the first time ever, while enduring the sound of very poor Japanese karaoke coming from the VIP room in the back.
We look forward to the next conferences which we will attend (unless other conferences take place in between, that will be LIMUN in February), and hope that they will be just as fun as CIMUN XIII.
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