MIT Model UN Opens 6th Annual BosMUN Conference

February 9, 2007

The sixth session of the Boston Invitational Model United Nations Conference (BosMUN) will take place February 9-11, 2007 at MIT's Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Opening ceremonies will begin at 5pm on Friday at the Cambridge Marriott Hotel in Kendall Square, and are open to the entire MIT community.

At BosMUN, high school student delegates will debate various solutions to a wide array of crucial world issues that are at the forefront of global politics. Addressing such issues as nuclear disarmament, the militarization of space, proper enforcement of intellectual property rights, and the international drug trade, delegates will take the roles of UN ambassadors in search of actionable and enforceable resolutions. Additionally, some delegates will be engaged in crisis simulation committees where they will be tasked with solving real time events, as simulated by our crisis staff. For example, the US National Security Council and the Hezbollah Leadership committees will address a real time simulated crisis of the war on terror. Similarly, the delegates of the World Health Organization committee will have to deal with numerous simultated outbreaks of global epidemics. Though the events in these crisis committees are simulated and fictional, our staff strives to make the crises as realistic as possible in order to give delegates an inside look at the sometimes impossible tasks facing world leaders.

This year, close to 1,000 high school students from around the world will be traveling to MIT for BosMUN, almost double the number of delegates at last year's conference. In addition to greater numbers, delegations will be traveling further than ever. High schools in Canada, China, and South Korea will be sending delegations to MIT this weekend.

Our aim is to create a unique debating experience that advances differing views and unconventional perspectives. Through smaller committees and a wide range of topics, BosMUN has become a highly anticipated conference that occupies a special niche on the Model UN circuit.

Published as MIT Home Page Spotlight on February 9, 2007.