Politika's International Model United Nations or PIMUN is the brand of PCRI PVT.LTD. It is an academic simulation of the United Nations.

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Moreover, a platform where the youth get the opportunity to act as a delegate of respected countries.
Here the students attempt to solve the international crisis through various policies and measures of their respected countries. Here the youth will get the opportunity to learn the functioning of the United Nations by engaging in detailed negotiations, comprehensive discussions and productive debates.

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NEW DELHI EDITION (VIRTUAL) OF POLITIKA'S MODEL UNITED NATIONS

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New Delhi being one of the prominent Asian capital as well India's Power & Diplomatic Corridor, provides an opportunity for PCRI to present it as the theme city for our first edition of Politika's International Model United Nations. 

 

Selection Process

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After receiving all applications by the deadline, the team will review them, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted via email with a confirmation letter/acceptance letter, as well as additional information and guidelines. The selected candidates will be sent a WhatsApp group invitation; they must join the group to receive further information about the conference Candidates must submit their position papers after receiving their confirmation letter. (A separate guideline for managing technical and software assistance during the virtual MUN conference will be sent to their emails.)

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Position Papers at MUN

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Once the organization has assigned the candidate his/her domain of committees and country's delegation, the candidate must send the position papers to the mentioned emails a month before the MUN conference takes place. The position paper is also known as a policy paper and serves as a guiding principle for action throughout the conference. Writing a position paper is important because it requires you to conduct basic research and allows you to present a strategic analysis of your ideas to the committee. Position papers can earn you high marks during the debate, and you have a good chance of being awarded. For some more tips and tricks to ace your position papers you can visit this link https://www.wisemee.com/how-to-write-a-mun-position-paper/.

To begin, an effective position paper should include five key elements:

1. Their country’s unique stance on the understanding of the topic

2. Their country’s previous relationships with the topic

3. Proposal of policies and ideas to pass in a resolution.

4. Conclusion and suggestions

5. Source/References

 

Guidelines for writing a position paper

1. Length must not exceed two pages.

2. Margins must be set at 1 inch or 2.54 cm. for the whole paper.

3.  Font size must be Times New Roman style, size 12 with 1.15 line spacing.

4. Send the document in pdf format

5. Agenda topics must be clearly labelled on the first page.

6. Country/NGO and committee name must be clearly labelled on the first page.

7. For each assigned committee, a position paper should be submitted.

8. It should cover all of the topics listed in the committee's guide; no separate papers should be submitted for each topic.

9. Plagiarism is strongly discouraged at MUN and will result in the paper being rejected.

 

 

General Rules

 

1. The delegates should be dressed formally.

2. English would be the official language of a conference; no other languages will be entertained.

3. The delegates must follow all of the procedural rules established during the debate.

4. Each committee will be presided over by a chairman who has authority over the MUN rules of procedure. (decision-making, accepting the motions, allowing the delegates to speak).

5. It is permissible to use electronic devices for research purposes during debate sessions.

6. You are not permitted to converse with the other delegates present once the formal debate has begun.

7. If you have any questions, simply raise your placards and ask the chairperson for clarification.

8. Delegates may only be on the speaker's list twice at any given stage.

9. All diplomats should make use of diplomatic and respectful languages while addressing the committee or chairperson.

10. Unnecessary use of procedural motions will interrupt the order of the debate. So be thoughtful of when to use it.

 

Rules of Procedure 

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The logic behind the rules and procedure is clear: to facilitate the smooth functioning of the conference and to maintain order. With the rules, a student can get a sense of how real-life MUN works. The first thing one should know before having attended a Model United Nations conference is its proceedings. In the conference, debates and, discussions take place in stages that must be recognized by every student who attends. There is no standard template for the rules of procedure, different organizations follow different procedures based on their interests, but the core steps of all are the same, that are listed below:

Fundamentally there are three basic stages in which all MUN functions.

1. The opening of the debate -     

- Roll call

The session begins with the chairperson calling out the names of countries to acknowledge their presence. Delegates can simply raise their placards and say 'Present' or 'Present and Voting' in response to the roll call. According to 'Present and voting,' a delegate can voice their opinion in all matters and cannot abstain from substantive voting. Through this stage, the chairs would be able to calculate the majority of students participating in the subsequent stages and be voting in procedural and substantive voting sections. 

              - Setting the Agenda

The next step in the line is voting on which of the assigned agenda to be discussed first. At this stage, the motion needs to be raised for discussion by the delegates themselves. Delegates should exercise caution at this point because the chosen topic should be relevant to their representative country's interests, and the most voted agenda item will be discussed further. Once the topic has been raised, the chair will call for procedural voting. During this process, delegates can either vote 'yes' or 'no,' but they cannot abstain. That’s upon the chairperson to whom to acknowledge speaking. If the raised agenda fails to adopt, then the agenda will automatically be set to the opposite order. The student should demonstrate their stance while speaking on a specific agenda. That agenda should be a reflection of their representative country’s views and not their personal.

 

1. The debate

-       General speakers list

Once the agenda is set, the chair will move you towards a formal debate. The chair prepares a provisional list of speakers based on prior planned discussions, which includes two speaking in favour of the motion and two speaking against it. The amount of time allotted for speaking is sometimes determined by the delegates through voting or by the chair. The general speaking time for all MUNs is set at 90 minutes. Following their speeches, if the delivered speech finishes before exhausting their speaking time, the speakers may yield a remaining timing to the chair, or to the other delegates or yield to answer a series of questions. Delegates must speak in the order that the chair has prepared in the list. Once the speakers have exhausted the list, the chair requests a vote on the motion to pass the resolutions. To move on to the second item on the agenda, the draft resolution for the first item must be approved by a simple majority vote.

-        Moderate caucuses

It is a fusion of formal and informal debate. The motion can be raised for the moderate caucus anytime during the debate by the delegates. The moderated caucus can provide you with a platform for a freer exchange of opinion and ideas, any delegate who is willing to speak at this stage can do so with the permission of the chair. The motion for moderate caucus could be raised in different situations for example, when in setting an agenda process, with the consensus of other delegates you can suspend the rules of procedure for a short period and decide the order of the topics to be discussed in the formal debate, secondly, the motion for caucus session be raised when there is slow progress in the formal debate and no conclusion is sought out of it. Once the moderate caucus ends, the formal debates resume. The moderated caucus should not exceed more than 15 minutes.

-       Draft resolutions

- The goal of writing resolutions is to develop different methods of negotiation and consensus partnership agreements among delegates, as well as to achieve a global policy idea. A good resolution reflects the perspectives and interests of multiple states. It is a document written by a delegate in collaboration with others that proposes solutions to the issues that are being discussed at the time. To pass the resolutions, a certain number of sponsors and signatories are required. Once you have finished writing it in the proper format, you must submit it to the chairs for consideration as a draft proposal. However, for certain amendments to be voted on, they must be formally presented before the committee by the delegate motioning to introduce them. If the presented paper is approved by a simple majority vote, it becomes a draft resolution. If the resolution does not receive the required number of votes, it will be subject to amendments to accommodate the views of others. Resolutions will be voted on in the order they were received.

1. Closing of the debate 

-       Voting procedure

Once a delegate believes they have made their points, a motion can be passed to end the debate on a specific topic. For the closure, a voting procedure is used, culminating in the adoption of the draft resolution. If there are enough draft resolutions on the floor, the amendments are voted on first, followed by the finalization of the resolutions to be drafted. Furthermore, the discussion shifts to the second topic.

 

 

Types of Voting Process

 

When the voting is required the chair would ask you when and how to vote on a particular agenda or resolutions. There are two types of voting held during a MUN session.:

Procedural voting- ‘Yes’ or ‘No’

Substantive voting – ‘Yes’, ‘No or ‘Abstain’

 

Procedural Motions

 

The motions listed below are those that a delegate can use during the formal debating session to request progress in the ongoing debates. The chairperson in charge has the authority to accept or reject these proposals. If considered, the motions can be used by delegates as a strategy to turn the floor of debate in their favour.

 

Points of information- permission to ask the question from the speaker on their stance.

 

Points of personal privilege – If a delegate has any general concerns outside of the debate environment (e.g.- if the mic is not working).

 

Right to reply - If a delegate wishes to correct or respond to a particular statement given by the speaker after the completion of his speech.

 

Point of parliamentary inquiry- where you have doubts with regards to the current procedures.

 

Point of order- It is used to remind the committee of any mistakes during the procedural rules by the chair or the delegates.

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