The Crisis Committee has been one of LEMUN’s great successes over the last couple of years. Delegates – or, as we call them, diplomats – will have to solve a series of crises during LEMUN, without knowing in advance of the conference what will hit them. They will have to use their creative, research and negotiation skills to limit the effects of the crises that can range from riots to earthquakes and from war to epidemics. During the conference, a team of MUN veterans will form the ‘Crisis Committee Headquarters’. The CCHQ does not only provide the input for the committee, but also act as entities not present in committee so diplomats can ask for example their government or an NGO for advice. As this committee is very demanding of its diplomats, only students who have participated in at least two to three previous MUNs are able to become Crisis Committee diplomats.
The CCHQ writes a special Crisis Committee Instruction Booklet to help diplomats start preparing and explain the Rules of Procedure. This year’s crisis will present the diplomats with a wide variety of problems all centred around the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Some of these can be solved by old-fashioned action plans and some international cooperation, but others will require more creative solutions.
The countries represented will be a mixture of countries in the area and external forces: Dijbouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Somaliland, Sudan, United Kingdom, United States of America and Yemen.
Notepapers
As part of your preparation, we ask you to make your own national notepaper, so that we can easily distinguish your notes from those of other diplomats. To help you with this, we’ve made a template and two examples:
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