| The St. Bonaventure University Model United Nations Team is a University chartered organization devoted to educating students with regard to public speaking, negotiation, and debate. Model U.N. helps foster international awareness, introducing members to the complexities of the United Nations.
Model U.N. demonstrates the great role the United Nations plays in solving international problems. Student delegations represent the various countries of the world.
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The group has traveled to Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., a few times to participate in the Mid-Atlantic Model U.N. Consortium. At these mini-conferences, students from various schools debate current issues including the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
In the past, the St. Bonaventure Model U.N. team has attended conferences held at McGill University in Montreal, and Harvard University in Boston. In 2006, the team represented Equatorial Guinea and Laos at a Harvard event.
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The St. Bonaventure club also hosts a Model United Nations Conference on our campus for high school students. Around 25 high schools from central and western New York come to campus for the two-day event. St. Bonaventure students serve as committee chairs, co-chairs, research assistants, and administrative officers.
We have received very positive responses from the high schools concerning the quality of our event. The high school students participate in such committees as the General Assembly, Sustainable Development, the World Trade Organization and the Security Council.
To prepare for the high school conference and our own conference we meet each Tuesday to learn United Nations procedures and to learn about the countries we represent. At meetings we usually practice debate and how to run a committee.
Model U.N. students tend to go on to become great leaders in politics, law, business, education and even medicine and remember the club is open to all majors for academic credit. The club is located in the Political Science Departments and is moderated by Dr. Carter. If you wish to join Model United Nations, see Dr. Carter or watch for the flyers announcing the first meeting.