Model United Nations is an educational activity that empowers students to solve global problems.
Model UN simulations follow 5 key stages:
- Research: Students research assigned topics, countries, and committees
- Debate: Students make speeches to explain their country’s policy on the topic
- Negotiate: Students meet with one another to form small groups and work together
- Resolutions: Students write out the problems they want to solve and their proposed solutions
- Action: Students vote on their resolutions
By participating in Model United Nations, students learn:
- What are the biggest challenges facing the world today
- How to be more self-confident, especially with public speaking
- How to interact with other people who come from different backgrounds and perspectives
- How to work as a team to achieve shared goals
- How to take action to solve problems, on a local, national, and global scale
In Model United Nations, students learn to lead.
The MUN Institute is a world-class program for learning Model United Nations.
See how we teach Model United Nations:
- Check out our lesson on Public Speaking
- Learn more about our staff — the world’s leading experts on MUN
- What makes the MUN Institute different from other summer programs
- See what alumni students and their parents have to say
- This is how the MUN Institute helps students succeed at MUN
- And here’s our Parent Guide to Model United Nations
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