BIMUN/SINUB 2023

Creating the UN of Tomorrow - Sustainable Politics in an Age of Crisis

The United Nations, created as an international platform to ensure that the atrocities of the Second World War would never occur again, now enters into its 78th year of operations. Although successful on many occasions, there is still a need to stay critical and question the power dynamics, decision-making, and implementation of established rules of our biggest international organization.

During the upcoming, 2023 edition of BIMUN/SINUB, we would like to pose this question as the guiding thread through all of the debates: are the international rules and the modus operandi we have established effective enough for the sustainable handling of current crises?

​Challenges such as climate change, hybrid warfare, geopolitical conflicts, expansionist tendencies, and energy crises seem to be ruling current global affairs. If that weren’t enough, all this tension leads to the rise of nationalism and isolationism - all this is the diametrical opposite of the global interconnectedness, cooperation, and interdependence the UN envisions. It seems the world is as polarized as ever before and globalization is in decline. Global inequalities as well as North-South dependency are still an influential part of world politics.

Are the rules we have created fit for these and the upcoming challenges? Is the UN as of today fit for the instabilities of tomorrow?

​When responding to crises, decision-makers tend to focus on the immediate solving of said calamities and forget about or disregard the long-term effects of solutions. This might be a rational choice, a necessary evil, but at what cost? This way future generations (be that of decision-makers, citizens, members of civil society, or else) bear the burden of past mishandling, maltreatment, and disregard for long-term solutions. Such policies are anything but sustainable. It is critical that we handle our current and create our future with the environment, as well as humankind - living or yet to be born - in our thoughts. Inclusive and sustainable - or idealistic and utopist? That is up for debate.

We invite you to rethink the challenges of global politics, we invite you to think outside the box - create new discourse, debate current topics, and shift perspective on the current international system.

In times of crisis, shall the UN persevere?