Preparing for the Fall 2014 Stark County High School Model United Nations (SCHMUN) A guide for teachers and students Thursday, November 20, 2014

This afternoon’s agenda 1.Welcome to students and teachers 2.Country assignments 3.Our three issues this fall 4.Steps in the process

1.a. Welcome to students  How many of you are new to Model UN? New to SCHMUN? New to Malone’s campus?  Welcome!  It is all about you learning and having fun!  Simulations: Stay in character: Play your role  Bonus: MUN is a great extracurricular

1.b. Welcome to teachers:  Thank you!!  Professional Development Contact Hours are available  Questions on practical matters?

2. Country assignments  Delegation assignments:  Any problems or changes?

3. Our three issues A.The problem of “Da’ish” B.Global response to Ebola C.Cyber-security issues globally

3.a. Head of “ISIS,” “Abu Bakr al Baghdadi”

What’s his group’s name?  DAISH (short for “Dawla al Islamiyya fi Iraq wa al- Shams,” Arabic for “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria region”) = a negative sounding tone in Arabic  = ISIS: Islamic State inIraq and Syria =  = ISIL: Islamic State in the Levant =  = “So-called Islamic State” (National Public Radio)

Origins of Da’ish?  Sunni radicalization in Iraq after 2003 US invasion (insurgency and prison networks)  What about Shiites? (Maliki government)  2006: Established by Al Qaeda in Iraq  2010: leaders killed in US-Iraq operation and Abu Bakr takes over  : Blowback in Syria (and Iraq?)?  2014, Feb.: Al Qaeda cuts ties with ISIS  Oil and electricity  August, 2014: US –led air campaign vs. Da’ish

Syria Crisis and the UN  Security Council paralysis in dealing with the Syrian Civil War since 2011  Breakthrough in September 2013 on Chemical Weapons only  Al-Nusra Front (ally of al-Qaeda but enemy of ISIS) took 45 UN Peacekeepers hostage from the Golan Heights in August-September 2014 (see next slide for map of Golan Heights)

ISIS in Syria AND Iraq

Broader problem: Violent groups rising in weak or failed states  Al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan  Houthis in Yemen  Al Shabab in Somalia

Possible responses?  Support for coalitions to use force against these groups.  Building stronger, less corrupt states that would provide security for their citizens.  Building resources for peace-building and understanding?

3.b. The global problem of the Ebola virus outbreak

The Nigerian success story July 20 – one Liberian man travels by plane, infects 19, dies, and 7 more die. October 20 – the World Health Organization (WHO) announces that Nigeria is free of Ebola. How did they do it?

Possible UN responses?  Help with treatment (support religious and non-religious NGOs)?  Reinforce the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone?  Build on UN Security Council meetings and statements on September 18 and October 15, 2014?  Strengthen the World Health Organization’s ability to mobilize more rapidly and put health workers in the field (beyond its core functions?)  Help reinforce public health systems (Nigeria)?  Longer-range education, prevention, isolation, and containment programs?

3.c. Cyber-Security: Problems  Cyber-attacks by governments as a substitute for physical war  Stuxnet or China vs. the US military  Hacking into commercial sites  Retail (Target and Home Depot)  Corporate secrets and intellectual property  Cyber-vandalism: Example against UN/ITU conference  ology&Cr1=#.UoTfOL-Abww ology&Cr1=#.UoTfOL-Abww  Spying and Security Breaches  Wikileaks (Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange)  Edward Snowden and NSA revelations of spying

Possible UN responses?  Setting general norms or rules?  UN Group of Experts:  General Security and Economic “Streams”:  final.pdf final.pdf  Taking over regulation of the Internet from semi-private groups?  ITU programs like IMPACT  hip_Against_Cyber_Threats hip_Against_Cyber_Threats

4. Steps in the process for our simulation A.Researching B.Writing resolutions C.Getting resolutions to the full floor D.Rules of procedure

4.a. Researching  In addition to websites for issues (above), see...  Some powerful Google search tips  Use “Quotation marks” in search box  Control-F  Domain limits: Site: un.org, unmeetings.org

4.b. Writing Resolutions  See handout (blue paper) on how to write resolutions and hold on to it.  Also see guidelines on website: models models  You will view them via classroom projectors in Committees: Bring a flash drive, it to yourself, use a Google Drive, or use Apple Airplay to project directly from your device

4.c. Getting resolutions to the floor  Each committee will be allowed to pass only TWO resolutions (for a total of six that will go the full Assembly)

4.d. Rules of procedure  See handout (pink paper) and hold onto it  Also posted on the website:

Final Word: Dates, Times, Locations  TONIGHT : Malone General Assembly, 6:30 pm here.  Committee meetings (one committee per issue)  Thursday, December 4, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, meet in Regula Hall 208 (next building north) and go to breakout rooms after that.  Full General Assembly  Saturday, December 6, from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon, here in Silk Auditorium.  Visitors are welcome!