MUN is important to me both for the significance of the thing it replicates and for the way in which it does so. International cooperation and the mediated discourse between countries is a phenomenal achievement. It is clear to me that the power of diplomatic international negotiation should not be underestimated, particularly when looking at the global impact the UN has had, for instance, on the prosecutions of Charles Taylor and Slobodan Milosevic, or on world peace. UN conflict resolution and peacekeeping initiatives have allowed there to be fewer deaths in conflict in the first decade of the 21st century than any decade of the 20th century. The ability to have an international platform from which to approach global concerns such as famine and climate change is truly remarkable and is only gaining in significance as the interconnected nature of our age develops. As for the way in which we impersonate it; radicalizing your assigned country, forming utterly useless coalitions and being specifically encouraged to argue with people will always be amusing.

Exactly that. Amusing. Hopefully we’ll see a resurgence of communism or a new trans-Atlantic fascist regime… anything that requires a lot of note passing.

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