With February 19th fast-approaching, you should all be relatively familiar with the SC's topic of Self-Determination (see background paper link to your right).
However, as Security Council delegates, the rest of the UN looks to you as the models of delegate poise and grace. Think of yourselves as the 'cool kids on the block', the ones with a car/motorcycle and amazing fashion sense. You are the ones whose friends bum rides off of and ask to pick up the tab at a fancy resturant. Such are the ways of the Security Council as well, with the rest of the world looking to you for support and direction.
To prepare you for this arduous task, the news team has put together this informative video.
Carry the banner of HSMUN high and proud SC delegates; the world is counting on you.
For more news, and to see some of your fellow delegates, visit our Facebook group
--LK
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Iraqi's Vote Shows Progress
While we seem to have heard that the fledgling democracy in Iraq is growing stronger each day ad infinitum for the last 6 years, a few more baby steps were taken recently with Iraqi's heading to the polls for provincial elections. Voters proudly displaying their purple ink-dipped fingers have been the poster-child's of Iraqi democracy.
The provincial election comes at a key moment in Iraq, with newly elected President Barak Obama looking to scale back the US presence in that country. In response, the Iraqi's must be willing and able to step-up and govern themselves. High turn-out and low violence are not the only distinguishing features of this election; Sunni voter turn-out was ~60%, a reversal of the 2005 election boycott supported by Cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr. This is an important shift in the populous' thinking, one that shows that the Iraqi people are fervently interested in self-determination of their own country. Also significant is the apparent renunciation of faith-based politics, with pre-election polls and early-returns showing Iraqi's are increasingly supporting secular parties.
Though, the Western world continues to hold its breath and hope that this experiment in Middle East self-determination will be successful, I think that a small sign of relief might be in order.
http://www.examiner.com/x-2543-DC-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m1d31-High-turnout-and-low-violence-in-Iraqi-provincial-elections-acclaimed-a
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/world/middleeast/02iraq.html?hp
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/01/iraq.election/
-LK
The provincial election comes at a key moment in Iraq, with newly elected President Barak Obama looking to scale back the US presence in that country. In response, the Iraqi's must be willing and able to step-up and govern themselves. High turn-out and low violence are not the only distinguishing features of this election; Sunni voter turn-out was ~60%, a reversal of the 2005 election boycott supported by Cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr. This is an important shift in the populous' thinking, one that shows that the Iraqi people are fervently interested in self-determination of their own country. Also significant is the apparent renunciation of faith-based politics, with pre-election polls and early-returns showing Iraqi's are increasingly supporting secular parties.
Though, the Western world continues to hold its breath and hope that this experiment in Middle East self-determination will be successful, I think that a small sign of relief might be in order.
http://www.examiner.com/x-2543-DC-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m1d31-High-turnout-and-low-violence-in-Iraqi-provincial-elections-acclaimed-a
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/world/middleeast/02iraq.html?hp
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/01/iraq.election/
-LK
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