CRUXMUN 2026

Topics

1. Investigating the scandal: Decide who investigates, who is responsible, and whether officials should resign or be suspended. Disciplinary and ethics powers clash with the people being investigated.
2. Protecting the World Cup: Decide whether the tournament goes ahead as planned, is delayed, or moves to a new host. The host federation, confederations and the teams all want different things.
3. Keeping sponsors and broadcasters on board: Sponsors are threatening to pull out. Decide how to rebuild trust and protect the money that funds the tournament.

About the committee

FIFA Emergency Council (HMUN format) A scandal breaks just weeks before the World Cup. Sponsors are threatening to leave, federations are blaming each other, and the whole tournament is at risk. As FIFA officials, confederation presidents, national federations, sponsors and outside voices, you have a few hours to save the tournament. Delegates won’t give long speeches. You’ll make deals, form alliances and write directives. You’ll also react to crisis updates that keep changing the situation. Every role has its own powers and goals, and some delegates are hiding secrets. Not everyone in the room wants the World Cup to go ahead. You don’t need to know about football governance. If you like fast debate, strategy and pressure, this is the committee for you. All characters and events are close to fictional. The topics are subject to change as this is a HMUN format committee.

Countries

Topics

1. Stopping the rival league from poaching top talent: Decide how to keep your stars from signing with the other side. Options include new contracts, creative control and exclusive deals.
2. Handling the leaked title scandal: A championship result looks fixed and the story is going public. Decide whether to investigate, deny, or take responsibility, and who takes the blame.
3. Keeping sponsors and TV partners on board: Your partners are nervous and some may walk away. Decide how to protect the company’s income and public image.

About the committee

WWE Board Room (HMUN style) A rival league is offering huge contracts to your top stars, and a scandal over the world title is about to leak. As the company’s executives, wrestlers, sponsors and outside voices, you have a few hours to keep the business together. Delegates won’t give long speeches. You’ll make deals, form alliances and write directives. You’ll also react to crisis updates that keep changing the situation. Every role has its own powers and goals, and a few delegates are hiding secrets. Someone is leaking information, and someone may be working for the other side. No experience in wrestling is needed. If you like fast debate, strategy and a bit of drama, this is the committee for you. All characters and events are close to frictional. The topics mentioned are subject to change as it is a HMUN committee.

Countries

Topics

1. Keeping humans in control: Should a human always make the final decision to use force, or can some weapons act on their own?
2. Responsibility for autonomous weapons: When an autonomous weapon makes a deadly mistake, who is responsible: the commander, the maker or the country?
3. Preventing an AI arms race: How can countries stop a race to build these weapons and keep them away from terrorists and other non-state groups?

About the committee

DISEC is the UN General Assembly’s First Committee, which deals with weapons, disarmament and global security. This year’s agenda is regulating AI in autonomous weapons. Machines can now choose and attack targets with little human input, and countries disagree on whether that should be allowed at all. Delegates represent countries and work together to write a resolution. You’ll give speeches, debate in caucuses, negotiate with other countries and amend clauses until the committee votes. You’ll tackle three questions: whether humans should always control the use of force, who is responsible when an autonomous weapon makes a deadly mistake, and how to stop an AI arms race and keep these weapons away from terrorists. This is the best committee for beginners. You don’t need any experience, just a country to research and a willingness to speak up. If you want to practise traditional MUN debate before trying a crisis committee, start here.

Chair

• Neeti Chauhan

Countries

Topics

1. Defining a cyberattack as an act of war: Set clear rules for when an attack on a power grid or hospital allows a country to respond with force. Possible update: a grid attack in one country is blamed on another, and the victim threatens to retaliate.
2. Finding and punishing cyber attackers: Agree how to prove who is responsible and what the Council can do, especially when a veto power is involved. Possible update: leaked evidence points to the ally of a permanent member.
3. Protecting critical infrastructure: Create ways to defend key systems and support countries that can’t afford strong cyber defences. Possible update: a second attack hits a country that has no cyber defence at all.

Countries

Topics

1. AI, Overtourism and Local Communities: the overtourism protests in Spain, short term rentals pushing up rents, and AI pricing and surveillance in tourist cities
2. Forced Displacement, Statelessness and AI at Borders: the Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar, displacement in Gaza, AI in asylum decisions, and balancing border security with burden sharing
3. Rights of Migrant Workers in Tourism Economies: underpaid and exploited workers in hotels and hospitality, especially in the Gulf and Southern Europe

About the committee

The United Nations Human Rights Council protects and promotes human rights around the world. At CRUXMUN 2026, delegates will tackle how AI, mass tourism and migration are reshaping people’s lives. Sub agenda A: AI, overtourism and local communities From the protests in Barcelona, Mallorca and the Canary Islands to AI pricing on rental platforms and facial recognition in tourist cities, how can countries benefit from tourism without hurting locals’ right to housing and privacy? Sub agenda B: Forced displacement, statelessness and AI at borders With the Rohingya stateless in Cox’s Bazar, families displaced again and again in Gaza, and AI used in asylum decisions, how can countries protect their borders and sovereignty while keeping displaced people safe and sharing the responsibility fairly?

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