<p>How does your team prepare for an upcoming Model UN conference? This is after submitting position papers (although we can always use tips on how to improve them). What are some good resources and sites available to prepare in the FINAL days (like less then a month) before a conference? I need some good tips, strategies, etc. </p>
<p>All contributions would be greatly appreciated. :)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.globalpolicy.org/</a></p>
<p>I'm invovled in Model UN too, and I wish our group was as focused as yours. We get absolutely nothing done during our meetings. One suggestion that I can offer is conduct all your meeting using parliamentary procedure. Last year, I went to the conference for the first time and was totally clueless on how to participate properly.</p>
<p>sunshinegirl, I wouldn't be so proud of what we are doing either. :P We haven't even had one meeting... :O But I am hoping we do as the conference approaches at least to strategize and as you said, get familiar with the whole procedure.</p>
<p>Wikipedia saves my butt after procrastination gets to me and I've got only a week left before the conference. I just read read read read about anything related to my subjects-- nonstop. I print out pages, then make notes on them and hi-light. If something is really important, I make small notecards with those bits on info. I also compile a basic fact sheet (easily available at the CIA worldbook or wikipedia) on my country and keep that in a folder that I bring to the conference, too. It's been my strategy for the past three years of MUN, and it's worked really well. :)</p>
<p>I second sunshine on reviewing parliamentary procedure, too. People at my conferences who aren't really familiar with it tend to have a harder time at the conferences making connections with the other countries-- from my experiences, the small things at conferences ARE noticed, and if other delegates can pick up that you're not really prepared, then prepare to be generally ignored.</p>
<p>-Depending on how much you read the paper or watch the news (I tend to not as much as I could) check something like google news the night before to make sure you're not missing any recent developments (depending on your committee/topic)
-Make sure you know lots of resolutions (rather obvious but nothing throws me off as much as other people mentioning documents I've never heard of(
-Find statements by your president/UN Rep. to quote (shows that you're actually in policy)</p>
<p>I don't prepare at all. I read basic background on the topics and figure out the alliances and basic viewpoints of my country.</p>
<p>MUN is about BS. Just pretend you know what you're talking about and you'll easily dominate.</p>