Your participation in this Model UN comes at a time of opportunity and risk for the human family. We are the first generation that can end extreme poverty yet people and the planet face the rising pressures of a warming climate, growing inequality and exploitation from mines to fields to factory floor. The United Nations works every day, around the clock, across the world, to confront today s emergencies while building foundations of peace for tomorrow. We are feeding the hungry, fighting disease and pressing for a nuclear-weapon-free world. We are strengthening peacekeeping, peacebuilding and preventive diplomacy as well as our tools for justice and accountability. Our sights are also set on the key year of 2015: the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, reaching an agreement on climate change and adopting a bold vision for the period beyond 2015 that will advance economic growth, social progress and environmental stewardship. These plans are ambitious. We need people to make them real. That means you. I count on you to use the negotiating skills you learn in this Model UN exercise to help navigate the real-world challenges we face. I encourage you to join forces with like-minded individuals and groups to generate change and promote mutual tolerance, understanding and respect. I also hope you will link to the United Nations through our Twitter and Facebook accounts. Technology has globalized communications. Now we have to globalize compassion and citizenship. In a world that is more connected, we must be more united. With our fates ever more entwined, our future must be one of ever deeper and wider cooperation. That is the global logic of our times. I look forward to the contributions you will make to our shared work for peace, development and human rights. Please accept my best wishes for a memorable experience. BAN Ki-moon MESSAGE TO 2014 ROME MODEL UNITED NATIONS DELEGATES 3
THE SIXTH EDITION OF ROME MODEL UNITED NATIONS IS COMING! DO NOT MISS THE CHANCE TO BE A PROTAGONIST APPLY NOW The RomeMUN conference will take place in Rome from the 14th to the 18th of March 2015, in cooperation with eminent national and international institutional organizations and UN agencies based in Italy, which will host the event. The number of delegates who will take part to the event as well as the number of committees that will be represented is increasingly growing. On the 2015 edition, we are expecting 2000 delegates coming from more than 100 countries and 5 continents who will represent the UN member states in ten different UN committees. We endear to spark a tremendous international debate upon the original topics that we are putting forward this year. The theme of the 2015 Conference will be FEEDING THE PLANET, ENERGY FOR LIFE, which is the leading theme of the 2015 EXPO Milano. This year, among the committees that will be played, there will be a committee completely role in Italian language. 4
COMMITTEES REPRESENTED AND TOPICS ECOSOC - Sustainable development in the framework of the post-2015 agenda, the role of NGOs and civil society GA ECOFIN - Adapting the agriculture development to insure food security and nutrition goals. Advances, Priorities and Regulations GA SOCHUM - Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger through gender equality and women empowerment in post 2015 SECURITY COUNCIL - Weather warfare. Natural resources as a cause of conflict and the use of weather modification techniques for military purposes ICJ - Germany v. Italy, Question on Jurisdictional Immunities of the State FAO - How to feed the world 2050. Creating a sustainable framework to manage food-security and to combat poverty CEU - A new framework for food waste and food loss UNESCO - Education and awareness on nutrition problems. How to mobilize commitment to solve them UNEP - Impact of climate change on biodiversity UNICEF - How to combat extreme children malnutrition (This committee will be entirely conducted in ITALIAN) 5
OPEN POSITIONS DELEGATE: Take the challenge and represent one of the UN members, deal with the most relevant issues of our time. Take the challenge and deal with the most relevant issues of our times. Prepare yourself, have talks with your colleague and achieve a final resolution reflecting your position. JOURNALIST: Work as a real journalist of a famous International network like Al-Jazeera, BBC, CCTV, FRANCE24, RUSSIA TODAY, RTVE Canal 24 oras. You will have the chance to write articles, interview delegates and the keynote speakers of RomeMUN 2015. At the end of the conference an edition of RomeMUN Chronicle magazine will be printed and distributed to the delegates. TRANSLATOR: Can you speak one of the official languages of the UN, in addition to English? If YES, you can participate as translator for resolutions, interviews and videos produced during RomeMUN 2015 and as interpreter for the newsnetworks represented at RomeMUN. 6
APPLICATION HOW TO APPLY All students currently enrolled in a University based abroad, have to fulfill the Foreign Delegates application Form. Starting from September 2014 all applicants will be able to register to take part into RomeMUN 2015 as delegates, journalists or translators. Only 2000 students will be selected as participants for RomeMUN 2015, and Giovani nel Mondo reserves the right to close up the selection procedures before the time, according to the achievement of the maximum number of high profile registration before 15th December 2014. For this reasons, it is highly preferable to apply and register the soonest. When the application form has been filled, students may decide to proceed with: The final Registration form specifying also the role and preferred assignment The Scholarship Application form 7
REGISTRATION In order to confirm their participation the selected candidates to RomeMUN 2015 have to fulfill the Registration form, and pay the conference fee. It is possible to register as Single Delegate, OR as Delegation (at least 6 people). APPLICATION SCHOLARSHIP AND GRANTS Giovani nel Mondo thanks to the contribution of its several sponsors and contributors offers 200 scholarships (both total and partial) in order to facilitate students participation to RomeMUN 2015. In order to apply delegates have to fill in the scholarship application form (the link will be sent by email), in there they have to upload a copy of the resume and a motivation letter explaining why they deserve a financial grant from the organization. After receiving the notification about scholarship s results, winner candidates may proceed with the registration form. To have more detailed info regarding Scholarship and Grants please send an email to info@romemun.org PLEASE NOTICE THAT ONLY 200 STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE FINANCIAL GRANTS, SO PLEASE APPLY ONLY IF STRICTLY INDISPENSABLE... 9
NEWS OF THE 2015 EDITION OF RomeMUN 50 more SCHOLARSHIPS respect to last year for the most talented students! Number of DELEGATES and COMMITTEES has steadily increased! A multilingual SECURITY COUNCIL! One of the committees entirely hold in ITALIAN! Are you a foreign student attending an Italian Language course in your university abroad? Are you interested in Italian Language and Culture? Is it your dream to practice Italian in a multicultural environment placed in the beautiful and historical city of Rome? If you have answered YES to all these questions this year at RomeMUN 2015 you will have the great chance to live all of this! In fact, one of the committees that will be represented, namely the UNICEF, at RomeMUN 2015 will be conducted ENTI- RELY in Italian! RomeMUN 2015 is the FIRST and ONLY Model United Nations in Italy where you will have the great opportunity to experience and practice Italian Language together with other foreign students coming from all over the world. Don t lose this incredible and unique opportunity, TI STIAMO ASPETTANDO!!! 11
Do you want to discuss the most relevant themes of international foreign politics as it happens in reality? Has always been your dream to live in a modern Babylon? If YES, start to behave as a REAL INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATOR! This year for the first time in RomeMUN s history the Security Council will become multilingual. In fact, the work inside the committee will be held in the six official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish. If you are a native speaker or if you speak one of these six languages you can be the Ambassador of one of the ongoing Security Council s member countries and negotiate in their official language as it happens in the real world. So don t hesitate! REAL DIPLOMACY has never been so close to you!!! 12
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FEES&ACCOMMODATION Single Delegates: This fee is for those delegates, who do not belong to any delegation, but for those who are attending the RomeMUN 2014 as single delegate. Conference fee: 250 Euros (for those paying by DECEMBER 15TH 2014) Includes: Participation to the conference, Didactic material for the preparation, access to the online forum, three online meetings for a total of 9 hours, preparatory sessions in English, Delegate s kit, Lunches during the days of the conference, certificate of attendance. Conference fee: 280 Euros (for those paying later than DECEMBER 15TH 2014) Delegations (Delegation means a group composed by at least 6 members) This fee is for those delegates who belong to a delegation of at least 6 members. Conference fee (intended for each delegate): 230 Euros (for those paying by DECEMBER 15TH 2014) Includes: Participation to the conference, Didactic material for the preparation, access to the online forum, three online meetings for a total of 9 hours, preparatory sessions in English, Delegate s kit, Lunch during the days of the conference, certificate of attendance. For all the participants, both single delegates and members of a delegation made up by at least 6 delegates, there is an optional Accommodation fee to be paid in order to be accommodated in our suggested hotels during the days of the conference. Delegations which might be composed by a group of 10 delegates will have two benefits: - to participate to the conference paying a reduced fee of 230 Euros per each delegate; - allowing a Faculty Advisor of the delegation (Professor, Dean, Referent person of the delegation) to participate to the RomeMUN 2015 as a guest with the possibility to be freely accommodated in our suggested hotel during the whole event. If your delegation should be composed by 10 or more delegates please send an email to robertodegirolamo@romemun.org Conference fee: 250 Euros (for those paying later than DECEMBER 15TH 2014) Accommodation fee: 250 Euros (not compulsory but strongly suggested) Includes: Accommodation in triple room in the 4 stars hotel Sheraton Parco de' Medici Golf Hotel&Resort, breakfasts, shuttle transfers to and from the conference venues. 15
ROMEMUN GOES TO NEW YORK! From RomeMUN to CWMUN be a real global MUNers/MUNette!!! For the 2015 RomeMUN team, thanks to the collaboration with Diplomatici Association, offers the great opportunity to LIVE the real UN flying to their symbolic city, New York. Within the major economic and financial cities in the World, New York is such a vibrant and multicultural city and there is no need for further presentation. From the art works of MOMA to the architectonical, structure of the Chrysler Building, from the dynamic energy of Time Square to the quiet of Central Park New York is the city that never sleeps! You cannot tell the city, just to live it! If you dream the multilateral world of diplomacy do not miss the chance to visit the vibrant center of the UN headquarter in New York, and to meet and discuss with thousands of peers coming from all over the world. 100 seats in the RomeMUN delegation to CWMUN in New York from 19th to 25th March 2015 are available! The fee costs Euros di Euro 1865,00 + tax, and includes Didactic materials; Round trip flight departing from Rome or Milan ( airport taxes not included); Accommodation for 7 days/ 6 nights at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York; Transfert back and forth the airport to the hotel; Access to the opening ceremony at the UN headquarters in New York; To get more information please fill the for below. 16
GIOVANI NEL MONDO Giovani nel Mondo is a no-profit association born to give new arenas to youth and their own ideas. Giovani nel Mondo Association does not pursue lucrative goals, it is independent, apolitical and nondenominational. The association pursues social and cultural goals both at national and international levels; it addresses mainly youth from 18 to 30 years old with the aim of sustaining them in their own path of formation and growth at professional and socio-cultural levels. Particularly Giovani nel Mondo promotes: researches on education and training both at national and international levels; events, study abroad, intercultural exchange programs; conferences and workshops aimed to improve participation and involvement of young people in the activities of International organizations. Giovani nel Mondo organizes its activities thanks to a research and a scientific committees composed by international researchers, and most of all thanks to the support of an international scientific committee composed by prestigious academics. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Dr. Fabrizio Lo Basso Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Prof. Rafis Abazov, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty Prof. Danilo Breschi, UNINT, Rome Prof. Jonny Massey, The New School of Rome, Rome Prof. Barbara Pisciotta, Roma Tre University, Rome Prof. Luca Scuccimarra, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome Prof. Diana Tsoi, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek RESEARCH COMMITTEE Daniela Conte, Ph.D Post-doc fellowship, Department of Political Science-Luiss Guido Carli-Rome Dr. Manuela Sessa, Expert in European policies-"formez Centro di Formazione Studi" Dr. Anna Caputo, Ph.D in Political System and Institutional Changes-IMT School of Advanced Studies-Lucca Dr. Pamela Harris, Assistant Professor of International Law, John Cabot University-Rome Dr. Luca Marco Giraldin von Lahstein, Post-graduate and Master s Programme Student at EMLYON Business School. 17
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The website www.carriereinternazionali.com is devoted to YOUNG PEOPLE who would like to work in International Organizations, European institutions and in the field of International Cooperation. According to the mission of promoting the internationalization of youth, Carriereinternazionali.com organizes and promotes events in cooperation with Universities, Public and Private Institutions to reduce the gap between them and students and: International Career Days, Workshops, Conferences. Carriere Internazionali in cooperation with RomeMUN organizes: RomeMUN Opportunity Fair, March 18, 2015, Eataly Rome For more information, please visit the website www.carriereinternazionali.com, the FB page Carriere Internazionali, or write an email to info@carriereinternazionali.com