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Between instability and sustainability: 17 strategies towards long-lasting development
The Mediterranean Model United Nations (MEDMUN) is a student-run MUN conference that welcomes every year almost 400 highly motivated participants from distinguished high schools and universities across the world.
The 11th edition of MEDMUN will take place between March 31 and April 2 in Sciences Po Paris' Mediterranean and Middle Eastern campus, in Menton. This setting will allow stakeholders to confront themselves with the quality of the debates entertained in one of the world’s renowned “Grandes Écoles”, whilst enjoying the idyllic panoramas of the so-called “pearl of France”.
MEDMUN features 17 committees – both General Assembly and Crisis committees, held in French, English, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish – and is centred on Mediterranean issues concerning Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. This regional focus is reflected in our theme for the 11th edition: “Between instability and sustainability: 17 strategies towards long-lasting development in the Mediterranean”.
With the Sustainable Development Goals in mind, MEDMUN’s theme expects its Delegates to apply advanced critical-thinking and creative problem-solving skills, and to cooperate closely and effectively in the search for inclusive and enduring prosperity and well-being in the region. Simultaneously, participants will listen to and establish connections with prominent guest speakers, both during the General Ceremonies and in their respective committees.
We look forward to welcoming stakeholders to MEDMUN 2023, a conference that promises to be a memorable opportunity for students to expand their network, deepen their knowledge and understanding of Mediterranean issues, and forge new friendships.
*Please note: you must pay the conference fees only once you have been accepted and assigned to a committee.*
Committees
- Europe du Sud et Méditerranée : Comment instaurer une collaboration durable afin de faire face à la prise en charge des réfugiés au sein des pays transitaires.
- Comment assurer la protection des réfugiés des minorités LGBTQIA+ victimes de conflits dans la région MENA ?
Valentine Menegazzo
Martin Ugalde Pussier
- Comment lutter contre la piraterie moderne dans la région MENA?
- Comment réaffirmer le droit international maritime en Méditerranée orientale face aux litiges sur les hydrocarbures ?
Aleksandra Ananieva
Michael Galeano
- Crise économique et sociale libanaise: une problématique mondiale. Quelles solutions ?
- Conflit d’usage de l’eau en méditerranée et au Moyen-Orient : entre torrents de discordes et voies de coopération.
Anis Nassour
Yasmine Belhadj
- An update on the urgent situation in Iraq
- Changing dynamics in the Kurdish question
Cameron Sterling
Catarina Sousa De Castro Vita
Being MEDMUN's most advanced committee, the Ad Hoc Committee aims to bring the most experienced delegates together for a demanding but rewarding 3 days at Menton. A crisis committee in its essence, Ad Hoc delegates are only informed of the topic and their assigned positions at the beginning of the conference, making everything much more surprising and challenging. Since prior preparation and topic-specific research is impossible for this committee, we encourage the most qualified and experienced delegates to apply. Get ready for a committee full of surprises!
Elliot Alibert
Ana Sofia Betancourt
- Developing strategies to encourage the participation and representation of women in MENA politics
- Exploring measures to improve the schooling of young girls and adolescents in Arab States
Eleni Kalenti
Matthias Kralupper
- Transforming agricultural policies: a way of dealing with increasing food prices?
- Adapting and envisaging common guidelines for the implementation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in food and agriculture
Hugo Berny
Yara Dionisi
- Le Procureur c. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- Ewen Cadot
- Amalia Heide
- United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran (United States of America v. Iran)
Ellie Carter
Magdalena Offenbeck
- L’importanza della cultura; strategie per preservare il patrimonio culturale classico (Romano e Greco).
- La diffusione del fenomeno della fuga di cervelli in Italia e nell’Europa del Sud: strategie per incrementare le possibilità di educazione e impiego tra i giovani.
- virginia maria barchiesi
- Giulia Vigoriti
- Economía sumergida y guerra contra las drogas en Latinoamérica y España
- Moneda única en Latinoamérica e iniciativas para la unión en la región
Nicolas Restrepo- Adrià Lara i Aguilera
- الصراع السوري: تأثير القوى الدولية على حريات المدنيين
- المجاعة والأزمة الإنسانية في اليمن
- Israa Albinfalah
- yacine ghedas
- Devlet dışı aktörler arasında silah kaçakçılığını kontrol etmek: barışı sağlamak üzere ODKA bölgesini güvenli hale getirmek.
- Ege ve Akdeniz denizlerinde Türkiye’nin diplomatik ve askeri stratejileri.
Mina Nazaretyan
Eda Rengin Ersar
- It's 480 BC and, due to Persia's remaining desire to conquer all of Greece, the Second Persian invasion has just begun. The Persians have passed the Thermopylae, slaughtering the defending Spartan troops. The Pan-Hellenic coalition, guided by Athens and Sparta, must decide how to defend Attica and the Isthmus, while Xeroxes and its satraps* continue their advance towards Athens. The fate of history is about to be decided. * provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire.
Myriam Limam
- It’s 480 BC and, due to Persia’s remaining desire to conquer all of Greece, the Second Persian invasion has just begun. The Persians have passed the Thermopylae, slaughtering the defending Spartan troops. The Pan-Hellenic coalition, guided by Athens and Sparta, must decide how to defend Attica and the Isthmus, while Xeroxes and its satraps* continue their advance towards Athens. The fate of history is about to be decided. *provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire
Tuğrul Turan
- After the death of Mahsa Amini Protests have been going on and off. Following cycles of mass protests and severe repression putting a temporary halt to uprising until a new incident reignites the fire of indignation and revolution. On June 3, 2024, 35 years after the death of Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader Ali Khamenei is announced dead although the causes of his death remain unclear. This event puts Iran into a power vacuum. Different factions try to take control of the country. The army, political officials, student protestors all struggle to control the country whilst American and Russian secret services try to influence this power struggle in their favour. Will liberal democracy prevail or will Iran maintain its struggle with authoritarianism?
Ishan Naithani
- After the death of Mahsa Amini Protests have been going on and off. Following cycles of mass protests and severe repression putting a temporary halt to uprising until a new incident reignites the fire of indignation and revolution. On June 3, 2024, 35 years after the death of Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader Ali Khamenei is announced dead although the causes of his death remain unclear. This event puts Iran into a power vacuum. Different factions try to take control of the country. The army, political officials, student protestors all struggle to control the country whilst American and Russian secret services try to influence this power struggle in their favour. Will liberal democracy prevail or will Iran maintain its struggle with authoritarianism?
John Lavelle
- La crise du courant du golf: quand les rapports migratoires occident/ MENA s’inversent
Armand Avizanda Perelló-Santandreu
- La crise du courant du golf: quand les rapports migratoires occident/ MENA s’inversent
Anas El Bouhdidi
The International Press Forum isn’t like other MUN committees… Each delegate here is assigned a global press organisation to represent, rather than a country. This gives us the chance for our imaginations to run rife, picking and choosing which issues represented within the MUN conference align with our own interests, and take a journalistic (and, perhaps, provocative) stance on issues which spark their creativity and passion. While in the past, other MUNs have often elected to go with more traditional media outlets – such as the BBC, Reuters or CNN – in our committee, we’re hoping to expand into a few more ‘nice’ areas… Members are encouraged to conduct thorough research into each of the organisations, understanding not only their traditional political stance, but also individual economic interests, the concentrations of personalities in the background of the media (…ahem… Murdoch), and how these might influence reporting in both overt and covert ways…
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