On Sunday, March 3, 40 students from over 15 countries participated in IOMUN 17. The latest iteration of international online MUN, featured three committees: UNESCO (redesigning education); UNOOSA (addressing space challenges in 2075), and a historical Crisis committee dealing with the 9/11 attacks.
The conference opened with a guest speaker, Jake Morris, who spoke about how his own MUN experiences, from a delegate in high school to helping run Johns Hopkins University MUN, helped prepare him for a career in international relations.
After the ceremony, delegates began their opening speeches, before moving to collaborate and negotiate as they attempted to write a comprehensive resolution to their respective challenges. Despite being from a wide range of time zones, the delegates worked for nearly four hours, going down to the wire, before the final votes, or in the case of the crisis committee, the final directive.
During the award ceremony, in UNESCO, Teo Leon Villa (Estonia), was Honorable Mention, Maheswaran Narayanan (Estonia) was Outstanding Delegate and Shaurya Shetty (Mozambique) was Best Delegate. In the UNOOSA committee, Giancarlo De La Cruz Rodriguez (Spain) was Honorable Mention, Mahir Kridai (delegate of UKSA) won Outstanding Delegate, and Goutham Sivasailam (ROSCOSMOS) was Best Delegate. In the 9/11 crisis committee, Naomi Gildor (John Ashcroft) received Honorable Mention, Ayushmaan Mukherjee (Head of FBI) was Outstanding Delegate, and Guy Bar Gil (CIA Head) won Best Delegate.
IOMUN 18 will be held on April 14th. IOMUN is supported by the US Embassy in Jerusalem and run by an international Secretariat led by Nana, Yaniv, Ziva, Angjelina, Nevan, Sai, Anna, Sami, Ethan and Maria.
Debate for Peace 