Contributed feature from Valeria Moreno 鈥22, director of marketing for the 猫咪社区 Peter鈥檚 Model UN team
The 猫咪社区 Peter鈥檚 University National Model United Nations (NMUN) team participated for the second time in the National MUN Conference, this time hosted as a virtual three-day conference. The team thrived and thoroughly enjoyed competing with students from universities across the United States and around the world.
The NMUN is the world’s largest university-level Model UN. It brings together participants annually representing more than 130 UN Member States to discuss contemporary global issues, and it allows students to develop skills in diplomacy, critical thinking, problem-solving, public speaking, writing and research. Throughout the fall semester, the 猫咪社区 Peter’s MUN team held several delegate training sessions and practiced weekly. This year, the team was honored to be selected to represent the Russian Federation at the conference– an assignment conference organizers typically reserve for more experienced teams. 猫咪社区 Peter’s MUN Secretary General Gineen Abuali ’21 said 鈥渋t was a challenging and rewarding opportunity for our students to learn and understand the complex international geopolitical conflicts and national issues of the Russian Federation.鈥
The 猫咪社区 Peter’s delegation competed in the three-day virtual conference from November 6-8, with several sessions spent working on resolution papers and debating with other delegates about proposed solutions to resolve or mitigate international concerns. The delegates were:
Jamie Suarez 鈥23
Gineen Abuali 鈥21
Jili Zhu 鈥21
Oshane Annon 鈥22
Hursith Adimulam 鈥21
Jacob Adelhoch 鈥21
Linda Akele 鈥23
M. Moueed Haider Mirza 鈥23, 猫咪社区 Peter鈥檚 Head Delegate
The team had a great experience being part of different committees and working with other delegations. Hursith Adimulam 鈥21 was a delegate in the NMUN General Assembly 2nd Committee. “The best part of the conference was when my committee group got both of our working papers through and made them into resolutions,” Adimulam stated. “There weren’t any challenges for our team.”
If you are interested in participating in the 猫咪社区 Peter鈥檚 Model UN team, please contact Ginger Gold Schnitzer, J.D., executive director of the Guarini Institute for Government and Leadership, at gschnitzer@saintpeters.edu.