Writing an essay

To become a Churkin Moscow International Model UN delegate one should demonstrate a thorough understanding of the Committee’s agenda, as well as a high degree of elaboration of the supplementary materials submitted for study. Writing an essay is the first step in the selection process and plays a key role in the formation of the Committee.

Recommendations for writing an essay

In order to write a quality paper, it is necessary to:

1. Familiarise yourself with the agenda: a preliminary study of the global issue will help form an initial idea of the Committee’s agenda.
2. Examine the Expert’s Report: a structured description of the international problem, its relevance and significance will improve the logical presentation of thought in the thesis writing process.
3. Argumentatively and logically state the relevance of the problem: Writing an essay involves a structured description of the problem, its causes and consequences.
4. Support data with statistical information and international agreements: a general understanding of the problem needs to be substantiated with reliable quantitative and qualitative information.
5. Check the style: the essay should be written in a formal business style.

Requirements

1. Volume: 300-500 words.
2. Originality: at least 80%
3. Structured and logical presentation of thought.
4. Use of official sources.
5. Provision of reference sources.

Contents

1. Introduction. The introduction should provide general information on the agenda and consider its relevance.
2. Main part. The main part should reflect your understanding of the subpoena, your ability to highlight key statements and identify cause and effect relationships.
3. Conclusion. The final part is a conclusion and may contain your opinion on the issue at hand and ideas for solving the international problem.

Recommendations for preparing a position statement:

1) Familiarize yourself with the agenda. To be better prepared as a delegate for productive work during the model, you should have extensive and intensive knowledge about the agenda of the conference. Hence, you should study thoroughly the official websites and working papers of relevant UN bodies. At the same time, if there’s a need, you can dive deeper into specific literature on the agenda of the conference, thus you’ll be able to come up with ideas for amelioration of the issue, for instance.

2) Thoroughly study the position of your assigned/chosen country. You should have a clear understanding of your country’s real position regarding the agenda. Hence, you need to adresse the press and/or the ministry of international affairs website in search of this information. If, by any means, you couldn’t find the exact and definitive position of the country, then you need to fully understand the overall stance towards the particular field/demain and thus come up with a position that could’ve been as close as possible the actual position regarding the agenda.

3) Understand the mandate of the committee. For your thesis and position paper you’ll have to come up with ideas for improvement and/or ways which will help to ameliorate the issue – make the SDGs more effective. However, before you suggest to implement something new, you should understand if the committee has the right and the potential to carry out such a thing. For instance, you cannot propose to create a new organ or change the UN Charter to improve the progress of the SDGs. You need to make sure that your proposals/solutions are SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Thus, you should study the mandate of the ECOSOC in depth to write relevant thesis and position paper.

Expert’s report