What is a MUN?

The concept of Model United Nations (MUN) originally began with the ‘Model League of Nations’. This endeavor hoped to teach students about multilateral diplomacy, international affairs and crisis resolution. Over the years, it has grown and evolved since its humble beginnings and is now a respected, worldwide phenomenon.
Participants of a MUN do a large amount of research on a particular country before acting as its Ambassadors, representing the interests of the various UN member nations in UN organs or other Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO) to debate upon pressing current world issues. After serious deliberation and consultation through formal parliamentary proceedings, the delegates of like-minded countries form ‘blocks’ to write out resolutions of all their solutions which are then voted upon by the entire committee.
While the simplest way to define a Model United Nations is as an ‘academic simulation of the United Nations’, it is so much more than that. A MUN is a platform that opens your eyes to new ideas, customs and ways of life. It teaches students how to be heard through rigid, formal debate and gives them a firsthand account of the difficulties of modern governance. Above all, it creates students who can truly claim to be conscious global citizens.
Thus, what a MUN such as the one held at Sophia hopes to inculcate in its participants is a strong understanding of world issues, the need for diplomacy and the war every citizen must wage in order to ensure peace and equality in his/her country as well as internationally.


Calling All MUN-ners!


Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
-- Albert Einstein
The two main objectives of the United Nations are to achieve and maintain international peace and equality among all people in all nations around the world. Peace and equality are rightly the most coveted objectives in the international community as it is only with these as foundations can the world achieve global development in all spheres of life.
Sophia Model United Nations prides itself in being a model simulation of the United Nations, based in New York. Since the year 2008, it has been providing a forum wherein students may discuss and successfully solve various international problems, thinking not from their own perspectives but from the perspective of a country, be it big or small.
As teenagers, our life revolves around school, home, friends and family. As world diplomats, your life revolves around ensuring national and international peace, equality, development and elimination of various societal evils such as terrorism, poverty, aggression and even environmental strife.
At SMUN, you as a delegate take the giant leap from merely reading about war to being responsible for that form of aggression, from worrying about your monthly allowance, to worrying about a country’s financial budget, from locking your door to ensure your safety to negotiating a peace treaty to ensure a country’s safety.
Thus, at SMUN, every delegate is given the task of solving problems collectively and using diplomacy rather than aggression to solve international problems with other countries of the world, keeping in mind that peace and justice must be maintained throughout the global community.
So if you wish to make your voice heard, if you wish to be a beacon of light or if you just wish to see the world from a different and broader perspective, do not hesitate to come to this year’s SMUN and be a part of a one in a million MUNning experience.
Yours truly,
The SMUN Organisation Committee