If you have any questions about anything, this is the place to ask it! Someone will get back to you ASAP. Here are some of the basic questions and answers, but please post away!
In the MUN (Model United Nations) we debate and discuss international affairs and attempt to copy the structure and activities of the UnitedNations. All members represent a member nation or a UN organisation by promoting its views and values in discussions and polls. Behaviour is governed by rules laid out in our Charter.
The UN is made up of five administrative bodies; namely the General Assembly, the Security Council, the International Court of Justice, the Economic and Social Council and the Secretariat. The MUN only has a General Assembly and a Security Council, which reflects our size and simplicity. In the MUN most discussion takes place in the General Assembly including most of the resolutions. Resolutions concerning peacekeeping and international security are sent to the Security Council for further discussion and voting. P5 nations (UK, US, France, China, Russia) may apply the veto here. In the MUN Security Council we have two seats for non-permanent Security Council members. A non-perm member serves a two month term. In the UN, the Security Council has ten temporary seats lasting two years. The UN has many other affiliated bodies connected to it such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). These bodies provide a forum for separate and specified discussion and action. In the MUN, we allow members to represent such a body as part of the activity which takes place in the General Assembly. In the UN such activity would take place separately to the functioning of the GA.
IC stands for 'in character'; OOC for 'out of character'. In any discussion that arises about how we structure and run the TSR MUN, members post OOC, voicing their own views rather than that of their nations. The MUN also has an Off-Topic Chat Thread (now on Mark II) where members can talk about whatever they like OOC. For every other type of discussion in the MUN, members are required to remain IC. Failure to do so will result in any inappropriate posts being dumped in our Spam Bin.
Here is a list of the countries and their representatives. Most representatives display the flag of their nation in their postbits, and state them in their signatures which can be seen attached to their first posts on any page.
The MUN is too small for us to create separate subforums for UN organisations (UNOs) like the United Nations Human Rights Council, or the World Health Organisation. Instead some members choose to represent an organisation instead of a country. These representatives advocate the views and objectives of their bodies by starting threads to bring specific issues to the attention of nations, and sometimes by contributing to debate where relevant. The representatives must remain politically neutral. They may not vote in substantive polls (polls that determine a political issue), but may vote in any procedural poll same as any other MUN member (procedural polls determine how we run the TSR MUN)
The UN Agencies Head Quarters is stickied here and most of the rules are expounded in Post #6 of that thread or the MUN Charter.
The MUN consists of the General Assembly or GA (Main Forum) where the every day discussing of international affairs, administrative issues and voting takes place. This is the forum in which you post any new resolutions or raise any discussions.
When resolutions have been voted on by the GA, they are either passed onto the Security Council, (which has its own subforum hidden to non SC members) or it gets moved to the Resolutions subforum which acts as an archive in which to store old resolutions for later reference. No further discussion takes place in this archive.
Resolutions passed to the SC are disussed by P5 nations and then voted on in the SC Voting subforum, where all nations may view the outcome.
Take a look at the first post by the Secretary General in the MUN VIII thread. It should have a list of all the Mentors. PM any of them for advice or help. Even if you feel confident, we strongly urge you to read the Charter before you make a start. There is a precedent for the format in which resolutions are written, how long polls may last, how long you wait before setting up a poll, and a few other things besides. Don't panic! We won't eat you if you make a mistake, but all the resources are there in the stickies in order to alleviate any potential confusion.
As a new member you have the freedom to voice your nation's views in any discussion in the GA. You may also represent your nation's stance in any poll, and initiate new discussions. It is easy to find your nation's view; just put the name of the nation and the issue into Google. There is a news site sticky which provides links to many countries' national news sites. If you are battling to find your nation's stance, use your common sense and your broader experience of that nation's attitudes. PM the Sec. Gen or Mentors for advice anytime
If you'd like to propose a resolution to the GA, have a look at the format of old resolutions in the archive, use the guidelines in the Charter, or have a look online for some resolution writing guides. It would also be a good idea to bounce it off one of the Mentors before starting. Its important to choose a topic that would be realistic for your country to voice. It is also important to choose something that would be relevant to the entire international community, rather than just your own nation's government. Don't feel obligated to pass any resolutions if there are no relevant topics to hand. You can make just as much contribution by raising general points for discussion and participating on those raised by others.
Please follow gemgems89's instructions here. There's also several TSR members who advertise their digital art abilities, just PM one of them.
Finally: before you ask a question, have a look to see if its been answered in this thread already. Typing keywords into the thread's search function may help.
Have fun!
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I've completely forgotten how to edit posts to put polls in. How?
*feels really stupid*
You use the thread tools drop down menu on the top right of a thread view page; click add poll to be taken to a page where you can set up your options. Remember that in most circumstances in the MUN you should be clicking the "make poll public" check box at the bottom of the page.
is it me or the is the link for the un angencies headquarters not right ??
Sorry about that. We're in the process of redoing everything to do with the UN agencies at the moment. It should be sorted out in a week or two. Just post if there are any specific questions you'd like to ask.
Look above the topmost thread or sticky (in this case the Welcome thread). See on the top right of it: Pages 1..25..? Click on those and you'll see all the threads in the MUN dating back to its start.
Say if i disagree with what my country is doing...i can talk about it being wrong, right? Or do i have to go along with everything the Israeli government et al say?
Nope, you have to post as if you were a representative of the Israeli state to the UN. So if the Israeli view on the matter is that it's all hunky dory then your posts should reflect that. However, if you want to make it clear that you don't agree with it yourself, then you can always use [ooc] tags (out of character).
Think of yourself as the messenger of your country's Government - if they want to invade Liechtenstein, par example, you'd have to support that decision in your posts (although the SC would probably intervene ).
I want to invade Iran with the help of my friends.
Read the section in the MUN Charter about hypothetical scenarios
Originally Posted by Ph.at
I have a silly question....
I think you're the third or fourth to ask it, actually. Your predecessors PMd instead, though. Thanks for posting
Originally Posted by Ph.at
Say if i disagree with what my country is doing...i can talk about it being wrong, right? Or do i have to go along with everything the Israeli government et al say?
You need to act in character of your country as far as the boundaries of reasonable media allows you to. If you can't find anything on the topic, try and predict how your country would probably be likely to react or respond. Some small moderation or deviation is probably ok as long as its not wildly contradictory or factually refutable.
Originally Posted by ukebert
I don't think that Iceland has an army, you could invade them
This is going in eggz isn't it
...as spam in the MUN always does. Thankyou for your useful demonstration
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I have a silly question... (n00b FAQ)
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I suppose that idea goes out the window then! 
