International Atomic Energy Agency: The Nuclear FutureIn 1945, the first nuclear bomb was dropped, which changed the trajectory of history and disrupted international relations. More states have nuclear weapons now than ever before, and it is up to you to tackle issues of nuclear security and nuclear energy. In this modern-day committee, delegates will discuss nuclear non-proliferation or proliferation, nuclear waste disposal, and nuclear energy disaster management. Delegates must consider how nuclear proliferation or non-proliferation affects the balance of power internationally, evaluate how regional powers could use nuclear weapons to their advantage, and keep nuclear technology out of the hands of non-state actors. You must also decide how to best dispose of nuclear waste, which could potentially last hundreds of thousands of years. Lastly, delegates will be tasked with mitigating the damage from nuclear energy plant meltdowns and decide if nuclear energy is worth the risks and public criticism. These issues will affect generations and generations to come, and the future is in your hands.
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Nelson Mandela's Cabinet, 1995My fellow South Africans, today we are entering a new era for our country and its people. Today we celebrate not the victory of a party, but a victory for all the people of South Africa.” One year after the end of apartheid and the first fully representative democratic election, the nation is still recovering from decades of inequality. Apartheid brought forth immense socioeconomic inequality and poverty. Disparities in wealth and services, such as electricity, sanitation, clean water, and education, between black and white communities were extreme. Thousands of talented young South Africans are leaving the country, bringing forth brain drain. Those that committed heinous acts during apartheid have yet to be brought to justice. As members of Nelson Mandela’s cabinet, it is up to you to mold this new democracy.
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Prescription for Pain: The 2020 Rx Drug
The opioid crisis as we know it began in 1991, when pharmaceutical companies and medical societies claimed that the risk of addiction to prescription opioids was very low. Prescription rates of these drugs shot up and opioids were readily available and prescribed frequently, which invevitably lead to opioid abuse by individuals who had prescriptions and those who didn't. When efforts to reduce opioid prescriptions rolled out in 2010, users turned to heroin, and an even deadlier drug -- fentanyl. In 2017, the overdose death toll became over 47,000. As attendants of the 2020 Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit, how will you work with medical professionals, rehabilitated citizens, pharmaceutical representatives, and many others to mitigate the American Opioid Epidemic?
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Gutted Greenery: The State of the United
Gutted Greenery is the new era of the environmental/climate crisis committee. This committee will focus on vital yet specific problems from realistic unique perspectives than in years past. Rather than pretending as though a governmental body is isolated from the influence of money and power this committee hopes to highlight it. We'll debate everything from invasive species, privatized use of public land, and effective environmental protection with a smaller and smaller budget, all debated from the positions of environmentalists, park rangers, and business men.
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Congo 1960: Patrice Lumumba’s
In 1960 Patrice Lumumba was democratically elected to lead the first government of the Congo following its independence from Belgium. Within a year of assuming the role, he was overthrown in a coup and the Congo was doomed to decades of military rule and illegitimate governance. In the Congo 1960 specialized committee, delegates will fill the shoes of the short-lived ministers in the Lumumba government as they tried to handle a successionist civil war, neocolonialism from Belgium and the West, Cold War foreign policy with the US and the USSR, and the expansion of education and healthcare in the new African state.
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