Conference Structure
Due to the nature of our conferences as a project put on for the current sophomore class, we operate under a different set of requirements, and thus, a HTHCV MUN Conference is set up a bit differently than most MUN Conferences.
The first thing you should be aware of is that our conferences have an overarching theme to them, that is then split up into different parts of the issue that different organs of the UN would handle. We do this so that the sophomore humanities teachers can cover the historical roots of the topic in their classes and help guide the beginning stages of the students’ research without stretching themselves too thin. This also allows for all the different delegates who share a country to collaborate without running the risk of plagiarism, something that is very helpful for a conference full of first time delegates who are not necessarily in it by their own choice.
To get a better idea of how this would work, please take a look at the example laid out below. In it, the theme of the conference is terrorism, with its six subcategories being handled by each committee like so:
The first thing you should be aware of is that our conferences have an overarching theme to them, that is then split up into different parts of the issue that different organs of the UN would handle. We do this so that the sophomore humanities teachers can cover the historical roots of the topic in their classes and help guide the beginning stages of the students’ research without stretching themselves too thin. This also allows for all the different delegates who share a country to collaborate without running the risk of plagiarism, something that is very helpful for a conference full of first time delegates who are not necessarily in it by their own choice.
To get a better idea of how this would work, please take a look at the example laid out below. In it, the theme of the conference is terrorism, with its six subcategories being handled by each committee like so:
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Another unique feature of our conferences is something we call ‘Leadership Directives’. They essentially act as a compromise between a crisis conference, which while really fun for everyone often loses sight of the gravity of the issues being dealt with, and a normal conference, which can be a bit dull for people who aren’t fully into MUN. Leadership Directives are first introduced to the delegates in the Background Guides, which contain a few research focus areas each country must look into. These research focus areas give the delegates a general idea of what their Leader Directives will be on, but they don’t get the full text of the Directives until the first day of the conference, when they receive a letter from their country’s leader giving them their objectives for this committee.