Model UN: Framing Topics

Introduction

• The guide is for delegates aiming to elevate their Model UN skills
• It focuses on skills beyond the basics to make a difference in the committee
• Each chapter details how to transform a fundamental skill into an award-winning asset

Don't Research - Prepare

• Delegates need to prepare before the conference to confidently enter the committee
• Preparation involves developing a strategy, setting goals, and finding the best way to achieve them
• End goal is to frame the topic, craft country policy, uncover hidden rules, develop a strategy, and bring a toolkit

Prepare, Step 1: Frame Your Topics

• Framing is breaking down complex concepts into smaller, digestible parts
• It helps with identifying key ideas for everyone to work towards
• Start with background guides and sources like Wikipedia and international news
• Find reports from organizations like the UN, think tanks, and NGOs
• Discover the important players, events, and documents relevant to the committee
• Review past resolutions, treaties, and agreements for modeling future documents
• Break down topics categorically into security, political, economic, and social issues

Prepare, Step 2: Craft Country Policy

• Country policy guides potential actions, while policy-crafting determines what actions a country would take
• Gather basic country information from sources like the CIA World Factbook
• Find primary sources, speeches, and press releases related to the topics
• Determine country policy by considering security, economy, trade partners, and organization memberships
• Relate country's interests to the topic framework and conduct additional research

Prepare, Step 3: Uncover Hidden Rules

• Conferences operate on different hidden rules for evaluating delegates
• Research to understand the conference, the committee, and even the Chairs
• Check the conference website for the awards policy
• Mine the background guide for hints from the Chair's letter and the committee description
• Try to make the Chair biased through shared interests
• Look into dais staff's interests via Facebook and Google
• Understanding the committee's stated purpose and powers is essential

Prepare, Step 4: Develop Your Strategy

• Strategy allows control over the topic and discussion, and involves implementing favorable solutions with flexibility
• 3 possible solutions can serve to immediately explain which 3 sub-issues are important to address
• Provide supporting evidence and find inspiration and don't contradict your country policy
• Identify potential allies between country's allies, potential trading partners and regional neighbors
• Survey the competitive landscape to find out if there are country's that can not be sponsored and other possible schools

Prepare, Step 5: Bring Your Toolkit

• Make research accessible during the committee
• Make a research binder with collected research
• Transform possible solutions into operative clauses
• Write a position paper or draft resolutions
• Rehearse speeches with teammates
• Visualize and walk through the five stages of the committee

Prepare | Checklist

• Delegate should have these things in a research binder
• Awards policy and rules of procedure
• Committee's actual UN website and UN charter
• CIA factbook and wikipedia information
• Background Guide and News Articles
• Resolutions, treaties, and conventions
• Speeches and press releases
• Voting record
• Op-Ed and Blog articles
• Think Tanks
• Academic Papers
• Personal ideas

Don't Speak - Inspire

• Making speeches is not enough since it's a routine. They are informative, not provocative.
• If you want to win awards, you want other delegates - and the Chair to want to listen when you speak
• You want to influence others to not only agree with you but to follow your lead and refer back to you
• To win over people's minds, generate trust from others
• You want to deliver those ideas with confidence and certainty and make a great first impression.
• End goal is to feel ready, find your flow, know what to say, stand and deliver, and influence the room

Inspire, Step 1: Feel Ready

• Model UN is intellectual and emotional
• Comfort comes from your preparation for success
• Don't worry about everything you don't know, and worry about what you do
• Look forward to have fun learning alot
• Dress sharp in a way that makes you feel good and means business
• Relax and get motivated

Inspire, Step 2: Find Your Flow

• Time is now to do it - You want to warm up and find your flow
• 15 minutes to settle in and become familiar with surroundings means being familiar with others
• Arrive early and introduce yourself to others
• Meet the Chair and see if you share similarities
• Choose a strategic place to sit
• Raise your placard without hesitation - it means you're over-thinking and not trusting your instincts

Inspire, Step 3: Know What to Say

• Speech should be prepared or framed with clear and concise points to make it easier to be easier to remember
• Prepare an opener with quotes, statistics, or stories of 1-2 sentences
• These frameworks carry over to your speeches - you want to mention your key points in an organized and logical manner
• Don't write out your speech and shoot with bullet points by forcing you to make up part of your speech on the spot
• Don't say more than one thing as speaking time is limited to barely make that point
• Focus on making the committee aware of a certain fact or statistic - push forward instead

Inspire, Step 4: Stand and Deliver

• Persuasion comes from the content and delivery
• Strong delivery helps inspire others to take action
• Show confident body language because people will see before they hear you
• Project your voice which doesn't come from volume but from breathe and pushing out
• Control your inflection and pace with accenting from sentences
• Make eye contact with looking at people's faces, not down at your paper
• Use hand gestures for emphasis

Inspire, Step 5: Influence The Room

• Follow up and cast your influence after your speech - others need to be inspired to trust you
• Channel the Chair and what he's looking for
• Early and often, pass notes to potential allies - notes should be simple
• The committee's mind is like a group of Facebook friends - always raise your placard
• Credit others and show their voice matters
• Implement motions tactically to help you become more influential

Don't Caucus - Connect

• Delegates build teams in order to more than caucus
• Connection means putting people, ideas, and resources
• Goal is to build rapport with potential allies
• Understand what they can contribute to the team, and be able to counter against power delegates
• Goal is to manage resources once you are a team leader
• Connect with others who share the same emotional, intellectual, or a resource currency
• The goal ends in managing connections which allows teamwork that puts you in charge

Connect, Step 1: Frame For Allies

• Award-winning frame their caucus blocs and for allies that are resourceful and team players
• Cash in on your soft power
• Build a reserve from introducing yourself before committee
• Build rapport by focusing on similar policies and ideas- this will help identify allies, and for a later debate
• Start opening conversations and dont be afraid to come and introduce youself
• Identify wealth in different currencies and find people that have generosity, goodwill, and can be a team player

Connect, Step 2: Build Rapport

• Rapport means two people have a sense of commonality, trust, respect, and confidence
• Diplomatic delegates open the circle to others unlike others
• Caucusing blocks mean accepting and encouraging
• You want the team to come to easy and quick wins together
• Listen more than speaking to others and understand what's driving their actions
• Use cushioning statements in order to gain confidence when you speak

Connect, Step 3: Pitch The Selling Points

• Once found you want them to know what you can do for them
• Frame the sales pitch in way that you already that you know what to say to each group
• Demonstrate thought leadership by adding value to others ideas
• Focus on action with the selling point of the direction that the group wants to take - than the nuances
• Combining ideas for virtual gains is better than compromising, which still makes you gain in value
• Create a culture by giving credit and relating an idea

Connect, Step 4: Counter Power Delegates

• Delegates whose goal is to dominate the committee, conversations by also shutting down ideas, and not playing well
• You must know how to weaken these techniques
• Power gets cut off by empowering others, cut off by asking random questions
• Save blocks by dividing them in half
• Associate lower value and clarify other ideas, not against the caucus blog
• Be sure to use the power delegate's mistakes against these

Connect, Step 5: Race to Bloc

• Arbritage means assigning the right ideas, tasks, with resources to the fight people
• If you start working on the draft resolution, it builds a first to market advantage
• Sense of when you've found your team - your team would want to build and agree
• The glue will always be the actions the bloc plans to take
• Help direct those interested in writing for major causes
• Know who will contribute ideas, effort and generally within a team
• Determine that you might want to win awards for certain teams - which can also be a driving force

Don't Write - Empower

• Resolution writing is a chance to show leadership of your bloc
• If you want to win, show the chair by delegating ownership
• Writing resolution is not enough and you have to show great management
• Teamwork helps invest in that process and show great currency
• Success happens if you empower other as you go

Empower, Step 1: Frame the Resolution

• Make Doc easier to understand
• Should look clean
• Well known can easily accomplish with that in mind
• Purpose is for community to be able to statement regarding a topic
• Easy organize and well written
• Make operative clause easy
• Has a formulaic and use standard or perambulatory clauses

Empower, Step 2: Manage Collaboration

• You are a manager
• Manage resolution but execute that
• Set clear objectives and goals
• Maximize that and keep emotion in check

Empower, Step 3: Share Ownership

• Manage the process and delegate
• Means for that if you can be held to one idea and that will then be passed
• Give feedback, but be constructive
• Teach you team what they don't know

Empower, Step 4: Submit As A Team

• Read the operation, and conclude
• Make sure things get double checked
• Read operative clause aloud first
• And then go through those that are listed

Empower, Step 5: Present as A Team

• Last one in empowerment what is needed most in vision in vision for the empowered
• This is opportunity and delegate which get recognize as each other
• Need to be presented and recognized
• Follow by how the conference presents itself
• Turn the question on what you need as an audience - make honest questions

Don't Debate - Negotiate

• Need to negotiate to pass to be great to win
• By not arguing to many
• If in that case in to be greater to not and to do debate that
• Must have an understanding in which to not agree
• Negotiating for those delegates and wanting greater for you - that will pass

Negotiate, Step 1: Know What to Say

• Before can negotiate, you need to know what team wants to gain and what it cannot give away
• Don't leave anything to chance
• Identify and try to amend as you go
• Try to be the first and the lead

Negotiate, Step 2: Be A Smart Dealmaker

• Show leadership by going into deals more thoroughly
• Have certain points to hit as people try to change who you are and bring them with you
• You must follow your points

Negotiate, Step 3: Scale For Efficiency

• Do greater numbers to work - that would give to what they you are trying to get in goal
• Will give the one to give what is best
• Be greater and have more and take other points to you you goal
• What to be for someone - can not do so better for each other

Negotiate, Step 4: Drive Merger Negotiations

• By understanding the reasons, you won't forget what can be done or to what can pass as leadership
• Can be a better process
• One could read the direction and make it sound better
• Show what must be done with any or more resolution so points that have been understood can always be met

Negotiate, Step 5: Ensure Success

• What is made of the one
• Has many points to go over - that goes into any one
• You get you you by seeing or being involved
• Has many parts that you now can always see

Conclusion: Don't Win. Brand.

• The value of a positive connection
• By having more or great than and being able to make each other greater
• Value comes in doing so
• The greatness that makes people want to be more greater