A Model United Nations, often known as simply a Model UN, is a simulation of the UN General Assembly alongside a number of other multilateral branches. In a Model UN, the students that are involved assume the roles of different ambassadors from a variety of UN member states. Once in their shoes, these students debate on current issues affecting the organization’s agenda. While they are assuming their roles as these unique ambassadors, the student delegates deliver speeches, negotiate with both adversaries and allies, construct draft resolutions, resolve a series of conflicts, learn, and understand the Model UN conference rules and procedures. They do all of this with the interest of using international cooperation to handle issues that affect countries all over the globe.

Before they step into the shoes of these ambassadors in the Model UN, these students do their research. They learn about the specific issue that their community plans to address, allowing these participants to also learn how the international community behaves in regards to its concerns over issues such as security and peace, the environment, economic globalization and development, food and hunger, along with human rights. Model UN delegates also examine closely the goals, needs and foreign policies of each of the countries they plan to represent. The insights that these students gain from exploring the culture, economics, history, geography and science of these places influence and contribute to the authenticity of the simulation even that they will perform in as they role play as the delegates acutely involved in such affairs. The in-depth knowledge that these delegates gain of their assigned countries certainly promises an interactive, lively and memorable time for everyone involved.