TONGMUNC 2024

Topic

Using Education to Prevent Extremism and Child Exploitation

About the committee

"Education gives young people the resilience and the critical skills they need to reject hate and violence. Without an education, they will lack the skills to gain meaningful employment and, out of anger and frustration, some of them will turn to extremism and violence. The sad fact is that terrorism appears to give a twisted sense of purpose and belonging to the desperate and the hopeless. In marginalized and disadvantaged communities, extremism can spread like a virus. Education is the world’s vaccine against terrorism because only knowledge can fight ignorance" (UTMUN 2020).

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Topic

Corruption

About the committee

"The Office of Drugs and Crime has made combating governmental corruption a key part of its mission. Corruption inhibits service delivery and facilitates illegal activity within and between countries’ borders. These effects are not isolated to one country; in our globalized world, corruption has impacts among neighboring nations and across the globe. A major goal of UNODC has been to combat corruption through its stewardship of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). This is a legally binding document that sets global standards and guidelines for preventing bribery, embezzlement, money laundering, and other corrupt practices, promotes the implementation of various anti-corruption measures at the national and international levels, and fosters international cooperation among state parties in the fight against corruption. Who should best enforce measures to prevent against corruption? Should member states with high observed levels of corruption face penalties for failing to combat it? How can strategies be formed to prevent drug trafficking and corruption simultaneously?" (PMUNC 2023).

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