Dear Delegates, I am pleased to welcome you to the 2015 University of Colorado at Boulder hosted High School Model United Nations Conference.
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2 Dear Delegates, I am pleased to welcome you to the 2015 University of Colorado at Boulder hosted High School Model United Nations Conference. The topics under discussion by UNESCO are: 1. Protection of world sited endangered by active conflicts 2. Maintaining agricultural use of land endangered by desertification 3. Identifying and Maintaining Languages in Danger The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency in the United Nations and its core role is contributing to issues of peace and security through education, science, and culture. As a specialized agency, UNESCO is provided with a level of autonomy within the United Nations system but regularly reports to the Economic and Social Council. UNESCO s mandate allows it to create framework agreements, memoranda of understanding, and agreements for cooperation to further partnerships, which fit its vision of collaborating and sharing resources with other United Nations bodies. I hope that you find this guide useful as it serves to introduce you to the UNESCO and the issues under discussion. We fully hope that you will explore member states positions and policies further. Many items will be brought up in the guide that may be a valuable starting point for your research. Prior to the conference each delegation should submit a position paper representing the views of their delegation on the issues in the agenda. Please review the guidelines for Model United Nations before attending and be familiar with policies on conduct and guidelines. We hope to see you soon. Sincerely, Victor Bader victor.bader@colorado.edu 2
3 Introduction Mandate: UNESCO is a specialized agency in the United Nations that acts with a relative degree of autonomy and coordinates its work through ECOSOC. The work between the UN and UNESCO is solidified by an agreement that allows UN representation at UNESCO and UNESCO to send representatives to meetings of relevant to UNESCO to the UN. The agreement also forces UNESCO to report to ECOSOC before engaging in any new inter-agency agreements. The responsibilities of UNESCO are laid out in its constitution and state that its mandate is to encourage the spread of education and culture, to aid in the sharing of knowledge, and to work with its members and organizations to promote agreement and the diffusion of ideas. UNESCO aligns its priorities with the UN agreed upon global goals. That means the Millennium Development Goals till 2015 and then the Sustainable Development Goals. UNESCO also tends to focus on Africa and has several far reaching programs based on its mandate. UNESCO s mission is UNESCO's mission is to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture. Its main concern is to foster and maintain intellectual solidarity. Structure: All UN members have automatic membership in UNESCO. Any other states that wish to join need to be approved by two of UNESCO s member organs. UNESCO s organs are the General Conference, the Executive Board, and the Secretariat. The General Conference includes all members, 195 and 9 associated states, and is the primary body for decision making. The General Conference meets every two years to decide the budget and plans and works by a simple majority, however a two thirds majority is needed to ratify a convention. From the member states 58 are voted on for four year terms in a geographically distributed manner to serve on the Executive Board. The Executive Board sets the agenda and provides oversight. The Secretariat is the administrative arm of UNESCO and is headed by the Director General. The Director General is nominated by the Executive Board and voted on by the General Conference. UNESCO also creates several national commission based on article VII of its constitution. These country level bodies are an important part of UNESCO s structure and help carry out its programs and coordinate with governments. Function: 3
4 UNESCO has a very wide reach into a multitude of issues. Its national commissions give it a total employee count of over 2000 and it has 65 field offices. It conducts activities in nearly every member state. Almost every nation has recognized the benefit of UNESCO however there is some criticism that it lacks focus. UNESCO s documents that decide most of its actions are its Medium-Term Strategy and its Approved Budget. The Main Line of actions are determined by the near and medium term goals. Any actions that do no match with these need special budgetary consideration. Conclusion: The international community built the UN after the Second World War to help provide diplomatic bridges and in the hopes that such an even never occurred again. UNESCO was built under the ideal that sharing knowledge and culture could not only benefit the world but also act as a means to strengthen bridges and especially understanding. Links: UNESCO Website: UNESCO Wikipedia: UNESCO Constitution: URL_ID=15244&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Protection of World Heritage Endangered By Active Conflicts Introduction: Among the functions of UNESCO established by its constitution UNESCO are maintaining and spreading knowledge as well as encouraging the spread of culture. To achieve this goal one of UNESCO s flagship programs has been the establishment of World Heritage Sites. World Heritage Sites are comprised of a mix of natural and manmade structures that are considered culturally relevant to the entire world, or part of global heritage. These sites as chosen by the World Heritage Committee which is made up of 21 elected UNESCO members. Beyond just world heritage sites many artifacts and locations that are not on the list may also be considered world heritage and subject to a number of treaties to be discussed. A concerning amount of destruction of world heritage has occurred as a result of conflict in regions like the Central African Republic and in the Middle East where ISIL has begun working to destroy many important sites. 4
5 Protecting world heritage sites is a difficult prospect for UNESCO considering some of the conflicts that they are in and plans need to be made for the dangers that important sites face. Endangerment of World Heritage: The sites that are endangered by conflict are variable and difficult to place under one category. Some are national parks with massive land area that may contain endangered species and some are temples that are smaller and may contain important relics of human history. UNESCO and the UN have many different plans to address these issue including UNESCO s Biodiversity Conservation in Armed Conflicts which mainly focuses on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Unite4Heritage campaign, started by UNESCO s Director General Irina Bokova, to address destruction in the middle east. The Biodiversity Conservation in Armed Conflicts is a plan that occurs in several phases. The first phase is to establish diplomacy of conservation which involves political and diplomatic support of the sites conservation as well as opening dialogs with all parties in the conflict to attain their cooperation. The second phase involves establishing feasible emergency action plans in the sites and starting a plan of community conservation. The third and final phase involved finalizing actions on the plans and meetings with high level officials in order to implement measures to correct the problems in the countries. The Unite4Heritage campaign has been more recently active and was developed in response to the acts of ISIL. The campaign has worked to spread awareness and has deemed many of ISIL s acts war crimes and is working to stop the damage done. UNESCO and UN resolutions: The Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was a treaty signed in 1954 in The Hague following the Second World War where many cultural artifacts were destroyed or lost. The convention entails its member states to provide adequate protection for their cultural artifacts, movable or immovable, and to register them so that they may be better protected. More importantly it asks states to provide protection for their cultural artifacts and to respects the culture of other states they may be in conflict with. While this has the benefit of encouraging good preservation it is irrelevant to non-state actors and in many countries particularly those in the ISIL crisis has not been followed even if signed. 5
6 The Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property signed in 1970 was a treaty that encouraged tracking of artifacts especially from war zones with the implementation of inventories, export certificates, programs to have cultural artifacts returned to their rightful sender, and import export controls to limit trafficking. The problems in many warzones where cultural artifacts are at stake is rife with looting and black market trading. Even large sites such as temples are not immune as pieces may be removed for sale. By placing states above the fray and encouraging and international framework of protection it was hoped that many artifacts would be sent back to their original owners. The World Heritage Convention ratified by UNESCO in 1972 is one of its most prominent pieces of legislation. It encourages nations to identify and conserve heritage they may possess in their country and to specifically identify sites that may be considered culturally relevant. The world heritage convention acts as the most broad statement of a UNESCO s dedication to protecting cultural heritage and countries who are signers are encouraged to record and educate on the culture they possess as well as protect it. In terms of in active conflicts this has been interpreted to mean many things including recording and identifying as much as possible about the sites and the threats to them. In places like the rainforests in danger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this also means scientific sampling and conservation effort for the species in danger in those areas. Sites: List of World Heritage Sites: Biodiversity Conservation in Regions of Armed Conflict: Unite4Heritage: World Heritage Convention: Trafficking Convention: convention/ Convention on Cultural Property in Armed Conflict: 6
7 Maintaining Agricultural Use of Land Endangered by Desertification Introduction: Much of the world is afflicted by hunger and the loss or resources to help agriculture is a major issue in the world. Much of the world especially in Africa is affected by desertification which turns arable land into desert area. Part of UNESCO s goal is to enact the millennium development goals one of which is to eliminate world hunger. The sustainable development goals also mention world hunger and are to replace the millennium development goals in Desertification is as serious threat to this goal not only because of the loss of arable land but also the need to transport food to the people living on that land. This also falls under the view of UNESCO because of the loss of freshwater needed for farming in these areas and UNESCO s International Hydrological Program aimed at preserving water resources. Education: A major part of UNESCO s efforts to fight desertification have been in the field of education. UNESCO has published a Desertification Kit for teachers to use in order to teach their students about desertification and ways to prevent it. The kit has been made available in a number of languages in countries affected by desertification and is part of UNESCOS Man and the Biosphere program. The Man and the Biosphere program is a larger program in UNESCO which aims to provide and teach a scientific basis for the codependency of humanity and their environment. It hopes to provide means of economic development that are socially and environmentally responsible by educating populations on sustainable growth. Combating desertification is a major part of this as those environments must stay arable for continued growth and preservation. Also important to not is the role that global climate change has played on desertification. Climate change has been seen as a catalyst for desertification that may also need to be addressed. Water: The International Hydrological Program is a large part of UNESCO s effort to combat world hunger and desertification has been a large issue that they have addressed. The International Hydrological Program s actions have been largely directed at both building awareness and providing research on areas affected and countermeasures to be enacted. Because of the issue concerning water UNESCO has had a large impact on the work done by the United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification(UNCCD). 7
8 UNCCD: The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ratified in 1994 through the Rio Conference. The Convention is designed to help implement long term strategies to combat desertification and has encouraged international partnership, participation, and decentralization. The UNCCD has through its Conference of Parties created a Committee on Science and Technology which is made up of government experts in the fields related to desertification. UNESCO has been involved in helping the UNCCD in a number of ways. UNESCO and the IHP have been helping to measure the extent of desertification and the effects of Sustainable Land Management. UNESCO has also been fostering institutional partnerships between relevant groups including identifying possible partnerships and providing the right environment for them to work together. Sites: UNCCD UNESCO Partnership: Man and the Biosphere: Education for Combating Desertification: Millennium Development Goals: Sustainable Development Goals: Identifying and Maintaining Languages in Danger Introduction: A major part of UNESCO s mandate is to identify and protect cultural heritage however not all cultural heritage is physical like the World Heritage Sites. Some culture is intangible and is part of a people s collective identity. Language is one such piece of heritage that is often under threat and needs its own brand of preservation. UNESCO has attempted to preserve intangible cultural heritage through conventions and use of a cultural registry where unique pieces of culture can be recorded such as practices. Part of the danger to intangible cultural heritage is the rise of globalism. As people become more 8
9 connected they also seem to adopt many universal practices which leave old practices to fall to the wayside. UNESCO s dedication to preserving a heritage that belongs to not only a small group but what belongs to humanity has been a guiding cornerstone and touches on many issues including this one. Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage: The convention defines intangible cultural heritage as any practices, knowledge, expressions, or skills and any instruments or artifacts associated with it that communities or individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. The convention function on both national and international levels. On the national levels it encourages states to identify and take necessary measures to preserve intangible heritage present in their territories. This means making policy decisions that support these practices and providing education in and on these practices to their people and any tourists. On an international level the convention encourages states to exchange information and perform joint initiatives to recognize global culture. It also encourages the establishment of means for countries to assist each other in preserving their intangible cultural heritage. Language is no doubt a major part of intangible cultural heritage and falls under the convention. Register: Luckily for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage there is a list of registered pieces of intangible cultural heritage. On the list there exist several types of languages that have been submitted by member states such as the Whistling language of part of the Canary Islands by Spain. There also exists and atlas of the languages in danger compiled by UNESCO. UNESCO has stated that they consider the atlas their flagship activity in safeguarding those languages. Of the nearly six thousand languages that humans speak it is estimated that half of them could be dead by the end of the century. Many languages have already gone extinct since the formation of the registry because of the lack of speakers and the number of languages that require attention. UNESCO Activities: Besides the aforementioned activities UNESCO also runs the Endangered Languages Program(ELP) to support government and experts in their efforts by providing tools for monitoring and updating the status of languages and providing policy advice to avid language extinction. The ELP also provides technical training and advocates for language preservation on the international stage. What ELP also provides most importantly is a platform for an international 9
10 exchange of ideas, skills, and information in following the ideals of preservation and protection of culture to be shared and learned. At this moment the ELP is working in a number of countries to revitalize or record dying languages in order to protect them for future generations. Interestingly enough the ELP has also found a link between language diversity and biodiversity. It has long been noted that a loss of biodiversity and environmental degradation lead to a loss of language and culture but it has also been noticed that a loss of language and culture seems to have led to environmental degradation. It has been noted that languages contain a certain perspective on the world especially in their sayings that encourage practicing of teachings handed down over many generations. The loss of these teachings through the loss of a language leads to a disconnect with the land that leads to poor decisions about the environment in a biosphere. Links: Endangered Languages Program: Convention on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Atlas of Endangered languages: List of Intangible Cultural Heritage: =0&domain=0&display1=inscriptionID#tabs 10
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