Founded in 1955, a decade after the United Nations (UN) was established, Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) is the biggest, the oldest and the most prestigious conference in the globe. Fully managed by Harvard College students, HNMUN facilitates more than 3,000 students around the world to simulate the UN’s events. HNMUN offers a unique opportunity to feel challenges of international negotiation and diplomacy.
This year, University of Brawijaya’s delegates consists of 10 delegates from different faculties represented Monaco at HNMUN 2016. Each delegate located in six different committees including Disarmament And International Security Committee (DISEC); Social, Humanitarian And Cultural Committee (SOCHUM); Special Political and Decolonization Committee (SPECPOL); Legal Committee; World Health Organization (WHO) and World Conference on Women (WCW).
The conference organized on Sunday-Tuesday (14-16/Feb/2016) located at Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Massachusetts, USA. The event started with opening ceremony and continued with the first session. The atmosphere was very competitive since the beginning. The entirely delegates presented their best speech and performed incredible diplomacy skill.
Four days have passed, and finally the last committee session was come. Each committee session was finally created a draft resolution, about a topic that has been discussed for the last four days. During the closing ceremony, there were also some awards such as Honorable Mention, Outstanding Delegate and the Best Delegate for them who actively participate in discussion and debate during committee session.
In addition to Model United Nations itself, there were also Social Venture Challenge (SVC). The event organized separately from HNMUN 2016 and implemented by The Resolution Project, who invites students to compete each other in forming a team and deliver their social action plans that will give positive impacts in the future. The Resolution will give funding until US $ 3,000 for this year selected project. University of Brawijaya’s delegates was qualified to go to the SVC final, although unfortunately Portable Waste Decomposer is not chosen as the winner.
On the whole, being a part of HNMUN 2016 is a rare chance that likely will only happened once in a lifetime. The skills being achieved during the competition were such as team building, public speaking, diplomacy skill and others. UB’s delegates then express gratitude to Faculty of Medicine University of Brawijaya (FK UB) for the support and opportunity to be given. [Humas FKUB/Humas UB/trans. Denok]
