North East India International Model United Nations
The objective of NEIMUN is to encourage students on active participation and study of international organizations and global issues. We hope to advance the interest of international education through promotion of Model United Nations conferences, promoting interaction and dialogue between young people as they try to find enduring solutions to global challenges.
Students Take on the role of an Ambassador to the UN, participants experience the complexities of international policy formation at first hand. Each delegate represents the viewpoint of a single Member State of the United Nations or non-governmental Organisation (NGO), researching that country's or NGO's policy and advocating these views to other delegates.
Every year thousands of students around the world participate in Model United Nations conferences. This was recently introduced in India but still alien to North East India. We feel the need to encourage and educate universities in North East India on the importance of extra-curricular activities; activities that takes students to a level to act as global citizens and equip them with skills to be leaders. We feel this pertinent for future young leaders of north East India, to provide them with opportunities in par with students across India and the
world.
Model United Nations aims to build an understanding of global challenges amongst young people that crosses borders of background, culture and nationality. Using both the knowledge, experiences and the relationships they form through MUN, it is hoped that that next generation of world leaders and thinkers will be able to work effectively to find solutions to future global problems that are compatible with the aims and principles of the United Nations and promote the spirit of cooperation.
In this way, participants have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with state policy, ideas and cultures different to their own and put themselves in the shoes of a real diplomat. The debate is controlled using conventions and rules based on those used at genuine international summits. The objective is to reach consensus and pass a statement of the international community's response to a particular area of concern. These formal statements called resolutions - contain collective action that will be taken in order to address the issue at hand. During an MUN conference a whole spectrum of issues can be dealt with; from issues of Security, to Development or Human Rights. Knowledge of Global Politics is important not only for students of International Affairs but also to future leaders and thinkers in Academia, Business, Law, Medicine, Science and the wider civil society. MUN encourages the development of skills essential to all fields of study
and employment, such as: strong leadership, initiative and expertise in public speaking; negotiation, mediation and consensus building; and the ability to form relationships rapidly with people of alternative backgrounds and viewpoints.
North East India International MUN will be working exclusively with interested schools and colleges in training and sending the students to the MUN’s across India.
