Bigmonitor - Issue 6 - 2017

OFFICIAL BIGMUN NEWSPAPER

27/02/17

Big monitor Issue 6

Party expectations VS. reality What the student really thought about the BIGMUN party.

Superlatives Who won what awards in the different committees

Closing ceremony

Article on the closing ceremony.

CURRENT NEWS Murder poses more questions than asnwers

TODAY’S COLUMN PIECE Juan Carlos share his opinions on the Grand finale.

From All of Us To All of You Advice for next year.

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LETTER from the Editor in Chief

Emma is planning to study Italian and theatre studies at university next year.

”If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme”

- Jiminy Cricket

Ciao! My name is Emma Drostby and I have had the pleasure of being Editor in Chief for this year’s Bigmonitor. As the conference draws to a close, I would like to thank everybody for reading and buying Bigmonitor. It is always nice to see that the fruits of our labour is being appreciated. Although I have nothing to compare it to, I am confident in saying that this year’s press team has been the best one yet. Every single press Head did a phenomenal job, executing their work to a T; and thank you making me laugh through the stressful and daunting moments of my work.

Being Editor in Chief is not just about proof-reading and aiding the journalists; it is about finding the right balance in being a leader and an assistant. Being the middle-man and the negotiator has always been my strong-suit, and I am beyond grateful that Pauline gave me the opportunity to be in my element with something that I really love to do. Paul, I will forever be the Monica to your Chandler.

I want to emphasise that what is seen at BIGMUN, during ceremonies and TV broadcasts, is far from all of it. I have found it rewarding and humbling to be a part of something that does not need a podium; what is important is that we know how much work every person puts into it. It does not matter, to me, that the majority of BIGMUN have no clue what Press actually does. This applies to any sector of BIGMUN: the staff that do not get credited, the teachers who helped put the conference together but were not acknowledged, and anyone who has done an immense job but received little recognition. So my letter goes out to all the unsung heroes, all the creative minds who do not need renown; congratulations on choosing a humble path that will get you just as far as any other.

Thank you for a marvelous conference!

Emma Drostby Editor in Chief

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CONTENT 02 04

Letter

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People of BIGMUN

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Superlatives

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Party expectations VS. reality

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Letter from the Editor in Chief of this years BIGMUN. Emma Drostby.

Closing ceremony

Article on the closing ceremony.

Meet some of the people of BIGMUN.

Who won what awards in the different committees

BIGMUN comic

MUN Brian and the post BIGMUN disorder.

What the student really thought about the BIGMUN party.

Current news

Murder poses more questions than answers found.

Bigmonitor

Column

Juan Carlos share his opinions on the Grand finale.

Head of Press Pauline Sophia Fich Mortensen Editor in Chief

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Resolution

Scurity councils resolution, how realistic is it?

Emma Drostby Head of Layout Maria Cecilie Wrang-Rasmussen Head of Photography

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From All of Us To All of You

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Bulletin

Advice for next year.

Zoe Svendsen Borra Heads of Social Media Christian Holm & Tobias LawĂŚtz Hansen

The people behind the BIGMONITOR

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BIGMUN 2017 Goes Out With a Bang (Or Bell)

By Laura Hvid-Hansen

Photo by: StineTinsfedt The large windows making up the background of the stage reveal the bleak rainy weather outside, reflecting the sad element of closure of the days that have passed. In an hour BIGMUN 2017 will officially have ended and delegates will once again return home, yet with the memory of the friendships made. These very things are what is demonstrated as the delegates enter the room in small groups, laughing and talking about the events of last night’s party.

The masses split and come together in the groups of their BIGMUN nation, in which both matters of international affairs are discussed as well as each individual’s experience last night.

The BIG7 take the podium along with Conference Coordinator, Andrew Archer, yet the chatter continues throughout, just more evidence of the friendships formed at BIGMUN 2017. After a few remarks, the room goes quiet and the President of the General Assembly Carl Johan Steninge-Otto marks the beginning of the closing ceremony of BIGMUN to which they “gave it their all.”

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for the student officer of the General Assembly, ECOSOC and Special Committees to present their committee awards. The low spirits of BIGMUN coming to an end lifts as each student officer presents awards to their delegates as well as small anecdotes on the committee’s work.

With GA1 being a “little too productive” at times, to GA3 excelling at all aspects of BIGMUN including “jeopardy and hangman” every delegate gets a personal insight to the workings of each committee, including the quirky, less laborious parts. As each award is passed out, the applauses become louder, and the student presidents more spunky in their description of committees.

With resolution and amendments ranging from one and half page to smaller ones in ECOSOC 4, one student officer remarked that it “just goes to show that size doesn’t always matter”, to which the giggles and laughs soared throughout the delegates.

Yet one thing all the student officers agree on is the proudness they feel towards their committee as well as the immense hard work the delegates put into their work. In human rights it even so far as to “India ex-

claiming he was having a midlife crisis in the midst of a crisis committee.”

With the mood mounting, the programme moves on to Head of Press Pauline Mortensen . Thanking the heads of her department, tears begin to well up with her personal anecdotes of gratitude. Being a head of a global section currently under fire from many governments, being declared fake, Pauline moves to a more serious topic.

With the words of “it’s important to have a clear division between press and government”, the room exclaims in applause, making it clear why Pauline was chosen as Head of Press. Referencing the current situation in both totalitarian states, in which people have no freedom of speech, as well as the current ‘war’ on press in the US, Pauline brings her speech to a global scale, and the chatty room goes quiet. Finalising her speech with the encouraging words of “it is crucial that we stand tall,” Pauline delivers a sobering and empathetic speech on the essential and decisive values of society.

Lightening the mood, the Heads of Staff, Emilie Gjaldbæk-Sverdrup and Hanna Selim thank their staff group, addressing all together in unison voices. With the immense hard work put into the conference by the staff, the girls remark on the “five fantastic, but I think all staff members agree, absolutely exhausting days” as well as giving the staff the credit they deserve.

Taking the stage, Secretary General Hannah Fougner delivers a speech on the importance of BIGMUN as well as her gratitude towards delegates, staff and press in the efforts of cooperation and working together to attempt to fix some of the world’s greatest problems.

Photos by: Josefine Bjerre Lyndgaars

Pauline Mortensen

Photo by: Josefine Bjerre Lyndgaard

In an hour BIGMUN 2017 will officially have ended and delegates will once again return home, yet with the memory of the friendships made.

Finalising the BIGMUN closing ceremony, Andrew repeats the words of the opening ceremony of “where is the love? It’s in this room here of course”, summarising the values and friendships made here.

As a final sign of recognition and praise, Andrew and the board pass out the flowers to the BIG7, and the room quiets down in the last moments of BIGMUN. As the turn reaches Hannah Fougner, the audience rises in unison, in a moment of acknowledgement, bringing tears to her eyes.

With the last words of Carl Johan and by the ring of a bell, BIGMUN 2017 has ended, and the delegates will once again return back home, yet with the memory of BIGMUN ringing forever.

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People of Bigmun

By Sarah Warming

Lucas

Malthe

Photos by: Audrey Fryman

Lucas & Malthe Lucas and Malthe, strangers just four hours ago, came walking down the stairs in the assembly hall holding a danish that had been given to all the delegates. They looked like good friends that had known each other for years.

Lucas, a bubbly Swedish guy from Malmø Borgaskolan, and Malthe, a student at Birkerød Gymnasium, blindly agreed to be part of People at BIGMUN. We asked them about how they had met and tested them on how much they know about each other. Spoiler alert; a lot less than they thought.

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bit and he helped me. That’s it. Oh, and he knew my friend that goes to my school.”

Malthe: “Yeah.”

Lucas: “So yeah, we are best friends now.”

Malthe: “And of course we are going to keep in contact after the conference.”

Lucas: “I already forgot his name. I don’t know… wait wait wait. I know his name.

He knows my name.”

Malthe: “Lucas.”

Lucas: “Yeah, thats right.”

so that people from different backgrounds are more understanding of other points of view and more accepting of Nick is a seventeen-year-old American born delegate from other ideologies and thoughts.

Kent Denver High School. He In America generally, people has lived in Denver all his life, get very emotional about poliand enjoys skiing and playing tical arguments and politics in tennis in his free time. Nick is general, so it’s like people will super approachable and has a not accept other people’s beliefs and automatically discount enthusiastic and bubbly chathem based on, coming from racter. He is an experienced delegate and has been to MUN their own perspective. Whereconferences in New York, Ge- as I would prefer in the world neva, Colorado and California, to have it so that it would be more like the united nations however, this is his first time chairing. As a passionate global where a variety of different people’s points are entertained citizen, he tells us about one change he would make in the and they aren’t discounted as absurd just because they aren’t world if he could. coming from the same perspective.”

“I think that I would make it

Nick Savignano

Anouk Anouk is a fourteen-year-old delegate from the Farel College in the Netherlands. She is an experienced MUN participant and has been to multiple conferences in the Netherlands.

Anouk even organised a conference last year, and therefore knows the ins and outs of events like this. This is her first time in Denmark, other than a trip she took with her family here when she was three years old. Anouk greeted us with a friendly smile and talked to us with a cool, calm, and collected tone about the person in her life that means the most to her.

“I think the person that means the most to me is my mother, that must sound really cliché. She always supports me even though she might not be really happy with a decision I make, she says she is not happy with it, but still tries to support me with it. She is really a role model because sometimes in life it wasn’t easy for her but she still kept going, and that really helps me to keep going when something isn’t going easy for me, or I’m having trouble with something. I can always go to her if there is a problem or anything.”

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Super superlatives

By Alysia Hansen

“Do not judge a book by its cover” is hard when the cover is the first thing people see when they look at a book.

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s BIGMUN draws to a close, the committees have one final order of business.

Voting, but not on a resolution.

Voting on titles such as best first timer, which in ECOSOC1 was awarded to the delegate of India. A second title, most likely to join the UN, was given to the Mali delegation followed by the delegate of Israel in ECOSOC 2: CCPCJ. Another was best delegate which was the title claimed by the USA delegation in GA3 and the delegate of Japan in GA6.

The time for superlatives has arrived, and every delegate is hoping to be voted as the best of something. While some of them will see their efforts rewarded and their dreams fulfilled just like the delegate of Russia from ECOSOC1 when voted best speaker. Others will face disappointment with not even an honourable mention to call their own and a final few will walk away with a less than desirable title such as “most inappropriate,” which was awarded to the delegate of Ethiopia of GA3 and

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most likely to end up in jail, which was ironically also given to Ethiopia of GA3. Another title that might cause some feelings of upset is most annoying delegate, which the Chinese delegation of GA6 has been gifted with.

Continuing with the superlatives, most of them are positive labels or complete jokes, and no one can deny that being voted as the title of most likely to become SG, also claimed by the USA delegate of GA3, is a huge honour. Being voted as hottest female delegate may not seem like a big achievement, but the chair of ECOSOC1 and the delegate of Sweden from GA6 surely have few complaints with the title (though the chair of ECOSOC1 is not a delegate). The title of most likely to become a dictator was popular among the committees and was awarded to Angola from GA6, Vietnam from ECOSOC1 and Ethiopia from GA3 (what a surprise on the last one). Some of the chairs seemed to be the favorites as the chair from ECOSOC2 :CCPCJ was awarded best dancer, the chair and deputy

chair of GA6 claimed the titles of most likely to write the next 50 Shades of Grey, best couple and the chair got best dressed male and best tie. The chair and deputy chair of GA3 were also given the title of cutest couple.

Now a bonus round for every title claimed by the delegate of Ethiopia from GA3: most inappropriate, most likely to end up in jail, most likely to become a dictator, most offensive delegate, hungriest delegate and most hungover delegate.

These superlatives will most likely have an impact on the ones who carry the titles. The positive ones, such as best speaker, will leave the delegates who won those positions with a feeling of pride and accomplishment, though it will hopefully not inflate their ego too much.

And the slightly more negative superlatives should encourage the delegates to strive to improve themselves and be ready for next MUN. Whatever superlative was attached to your name, or even if one was not, do not let the title, or lack of one, stop you from improving yourself.

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Expectations VS Reality: BIGMUN Party Edition

By Sarah Warming

Find out what the student of BIGMUN really thought of the renowned party saturday night.

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Last night, February 25th, 2017, BIGMUN held the party of the year. At a very serious MUN conference, the days are spent making resolutions and solving real world problems, which takes a lot of thinking and collaboration. At the end of the day, delegates, staff, and press leave during the late afternoon, or even night, looking worn out after hours upon hours of discussion and hard work. The BIGMUN party is one of the few chances for delegates to let loose, get together, and have fun (without alcohol, of course.) This is also the chance to dust off your best pickup line and score that cute delegate whom you have been eyeing all week.

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mixed emotions about the party, so we took some time out of our day yesterday to ask staff and delegates about what expectations they had for the evening. Our first victim was Abayomi Oladeji, one of BG’s own delegates in the Human Rights Council. He told us, “tonight’s party is a good time to socialise with your fellow delegates and really get to knock one out. Of course, the alcohol is a big minus, not to sound like an alcoholic.”

To get a different perspective, we asked a hard working staff member, Christian Holm. He said that the party will be “cultural and you can experience proper globalisation at a school level.” Many people were looking forward to

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the party as an opportunity to develop friendships with the delegates in the different committees and learn more about each other in a more relaxed environment.

However, not everyone was as excited about the party.

Jimena Abeledo from the press team told us, “to be honest, I think it’s going to be lame. Very few people are going to be dancing and they are going to play 2008 top hits. I expect to see fourteen year old overdosing on soda.” Things such as “It is gonna be bad (slightly censored),” were also heard around the school yesterday. “As a part time delegate and full time staff, I’m not looking forward to cleaning everyone’s mess,” Anders Simonsen told the press.

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Expectations VS Reality: BIGMUN After

Most people were very excited for the party, and were especially looking forward to the dinner. “I look forward to the dinner and I think that will be really nice” and “I believe the dinner will be an amazing opportunity for delegates from all around the world to meet,” were just some of the things people said around the conference.

Yet, were these expectations met? Or was the party completely different than what people originally thought? We followed up on the students we asked yesterday, and heard how the reality compared to their previous expectations.

Our staff member Christian Holm, who was at the party

Party

working, had a great night. He told us, “it was fun, there was a circle where people could go in one and one and show off their moves. The people were making the best out of it, and the music was really loud. The lights also worked well.” Abayomi, our HRC delegate, was also pleasantly surprised at how much fun the night was. “The BIGMUN party was a little better than I had imagined.

Last night we just socialised and danced and had a good time.”

Nevertheless, not everyone had an amazing night.

Jimena complained that “it was decrepit. People dancing to LMFAO, way too much dabbing, no creative dance moves and bad music. I did however enjoy the

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early ending time. It was putrid. Don’t go next year. Please.”

Thanks for the suggestion Jimena!

Events are unpredictable, and we can never foresee how great or how boring a party will be. Whatever your reality might have been last night at the BIGMUN party, we hope you enjoyed yourself and were able to develop further friendships with other delegates, staff, and press members in an environment other than your committee. As you can see, things do not always turn out like how we imagine they will.

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Current news

By Mads Hjerrild Hansen

Murder Poses More Questions than Answers With tensions rising between Malaysia and North Korea, authorities remain perplexed as to who is responsible for Kim Jong Nam’s murder It is now almost two weeks since the killing of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother, Kim Jong Nam. The 45 year old’s homicide took place at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, his journey home to Macau being interrupted by two, unidentified women. CCTV footage displays two women approaching Kim Jong Nam from the posterior, grabbing him and rubbing a cloth on his face. The fabric was laced with a VX nerve agent - killing Kim Jong Nam on the way to the hospital. Ultimately, the question still remains: who is guilty?

Numerous arrests have now been made, and North Korea has denounced Malaysia for the blame given. The first arrest took place the 15th of February; Malaysian authorities apprehending a Vietnamese woman, recognized from the CCTV footage. The following day, after the autopsy, Malaysia’s deputy prime minister confirmed the body to be Kim Jong Nam, overlooking North Korea’s inquiry for the body. The same day, an Indonesian woman was taken into - 12

Photo: http://citifmonline.com custody. But just how guilty is she?

The 25 year old claimed that she was led to believe she was taking part in a prank. This may seem far-fetched, but her chieftain later stated that the two accused had already pranked multiple men, asking them to close their eyes, then spraying water on their face.

On the 19th of February, four North Koreans were embroiled, all fleeing Malaysia the 13th of February. Furthermore, two more North Koreans are named: an official of the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, and an employee of the North Korean airline, Air Koryo. North Korea are attempting to shift the blame to Malaysia, but still has not officially named the victim.

As North Korea continues to act peculiarly, questions are being raised, concerning who would have motive to murder Kim Jong Nam. Kim Jong Un is notorious for ousting any potential menace,

usually by force. Despite Kim Jong Nam not being involved in any North Korean politics, his relations to China may have suggested that China was pursuing the replacement of the supreme leader with his half-brother. Unsurprisingly, efforts to take Kim Jong Nam’s life already took place in 2010 and 2012. The first attempt ended with a North Korean agent admitting to the bribery of a taxi driver, paying him to run the half-brother over. Not made public, the allegation of another attempt in 2012, ended with Kim Jong Nam supposedly writing a letter to the leader, imploring him to have mercy upon him and his family.

It seems like the supreme leader will go to no lengths to protect his regime. With North Korean suspicion looming, no one will be able to predict the coming events, leading to the eventual, fixed guilt of the murder.

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The grand finale: A conclusion on BIGMUN

Photo by: Stine Tinsfeldt

By Juan Carlos Harquet Briones

With BIGMUN closings its doors to the public, the only thing left to do is say goodbye. The first column I wrote for the BIGMONITOR included my first impressions on the event as well as an introduction of myself. Therefore, it is only fair for me to close this one out by giving you my personal conclusion on BIGMUN itself.

Let me start with the press team.

We did not see much improvement throughout the event. Not because it was an unpleasant experience, but because we were a single unit from the start. We really were great from the start. As our Head of Press, Pauline kept the group working as intended. Thanks to her very structured way of thinking, I worked hard for the full duration.

Press ran through the tasks relatively quickly, and worked as a cohesive unit all throughout BIGMUN. Committees; I had the pleasure of visiting most of them on a daily basis, and I am impressed. Impressed with the development in each individual committee. Some of them started out as silence chambers, with no one but the chair speaking.

However, these same rooms quickly

developed into hard-core debating zones, and I have to congratulate each one of you for your efforts.

The chairs also have to be congratulated; they all managed to keep the fine line between work and fun well defined. The only thing I could think of that broke said barrier was the UNICEF doll, however even he was a welcomed addition to the committee. The dynamic relationship between chairs and delegates needs a mention, it looked professionally fun. In the words of a member of the crisis committee who would rather remain anonymous: “It is lit.”

Staff, you people are amazing. All the staff members I spoke to took their job very seriously, and tried their best to deliver the best experience to the delegates. Having one of you come with pastry and food every now and then helped me keep my focus on the work I had to do, and from what I saw in the committees, the same treatment was given to the delegates.

Not everything was perfect though.

I believe that the BIG 7 have too much responsibility on their hands, and giving the chairs more power

could be a perfect solution to those “small details” that they sometimes had to deal with. As mentioned in one of my earlier columns, I believe that there should also be serious punishments for serious offenses.

But these are details I trust next year´s BIGMUN team can fix.

What is my personal conclusion? I got a glimpse of what it was to work on an actual paper, and this was an valuable experience for me. I also had the pleasure of meeting heaps of new people from all over the world, friendships that I will never give up.

It is hard to be creative on command, however it is a skill that now I know one can actually improve.

“Enforcing” creativity was something I thought would be a problem, but as time went by, I started realising that it was indeed possible to change my mindset to make “on command creativity” easier. It is not simple, but it is doable.

I have absolutely nothing negative to say about the press team and I genuinely hope that your experience at BIGMUN was as productive and fulfilling as mine was. It is time though, time to say goodbye and for all of us to go back home. For those who come from outside the country, the plane ride is a good place to reflect on all you have learned during this event. There should also be reflections on the topics discussed, have you learned anything within your committee that can be applied to real life? Each of us will have a personal answer to this question, whatever it may be know that you changed the world of BIGMUN, and just as easily you can change the world around you.

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BIGMUN versus Reality

By Rebecca Pham

An inside look on the NFU doctrine As nuclear technology is increasingly advancing, the exploitation of it in the pursuit of power is unavoidable. On February 24th 2017, BIGMUN’s Security Council passed a resolution regarding the enforcement of the Non-proliferation Treaty, whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. We decided to discuss two amendments passed on said resolution, and to what extent it would be applicable to reality.

3. Encourages countries to adopt non-interventionist,

“no first use” policies in an effort to: a.

Inhibit the political power that nuclear weapons possess; b.

Hinder belligerent, aggressive nuclear powers that have continually violated international treaties;

Currently, countries pledging no first-use policies are China, India and North Korea, while countries pledging to use nuclear weapons only defensively are Russia, UK, US, Pakistan and Israel. The “no first use” policy refers to a pledge or a policy by a nuclear power not to use nuclear weapons as a means of warfare, unless first attacked by an opposition using nuclear weapons. An adoption of NFU policies would eliminate the ambiguity of adversaries of several countries that could potentially adopt such a policy. When the US considered a NFU doctrine, it was widely regarded as a noble, controversial and progressive step towards - 14 Photo by Stine Tinsfeldt

achieving an ultimate goal of “a world without nuclear weapons.” Although a lot of nations have been successful with adopting NFU policies, a number of countries, such as the US, are squeamish to do so. Retaining a degree of nuclear ambiguity would helps deter war, while adopting an NFU policy would undercut that deterrence. If you take the example of the US, the existing policy of ambiguity ensures that potential aggressors such as Russia and Iran must contemplate the reality that if they attack their allies, they risk possible US nuclear retaliation.

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Demands all NPT signatory member states to comply to all the IAEA safety standards for nuclear power plants on the basis that a safe nuclear power plant will prevent the exploitation of power plants in unstable regions;

Photo by Stine Tinsfeldt A little more than a decade from now, large commercial nuclear power facilities will be in operation in almost 40 countries, of which about one-half are considered are to be industrially less-developed. Ambitious nuclear programmes coupled together with minimal, less prioritised and frequently under-staffed regulatory and utility organizations are only one aspect among a long line of safety concerns at power plants in developing countries. As such, developed countries would need some sort of financial support as well as outsider regulation, to ensure the upholding of safety standards outlined by the IAEA safety standards report.

The IAEA safety standards outlined in their Fundamental Safety Standards publications, defines

‘safety’ as “the protection of people and the environment against radiation risks, and the safety of facilities and activities that give rise to radiation risks.”

An adoption of the IAEA safety standards for nuclear power plants would require the member states to establish legal and governmental framework that provides for the regulation of facilities and activities that give rise to radiation risks and for the clear assignment of responsibilities. The government would be responsible for the adoption within its own legal system of such legislation, regulations and other measures, to fulfill all its national responsibilities and international obligations effectively. Additionally, they would be in charge of the establishment of an independent regulatory

programme, that does frequent follow-ups.

Furthermore, the authorities would have to ensure for programmes of actions to reduce comprehensive risks regarding radiation, as well as prepare procedures for emergency situations.

When the first BIGMUN conference was held six years ago, it might just have been set out to be a simulation of the real United Nations. However, the increasing engagement and thoroughness of the delegates today would prove this statement to be an injustice.

The one significant difference that should be drawn between BIGMUN and the real UN is the liberty to think utopian, with longterm visions and political dreams as the ultimate goal.

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From All of Us to You A Series of Advice for Next

By Toby Van Waale This has been a great year for BIGMUN. We have had so many new delegates, as well as veterans returning, to this year’s conference - and their vigor is inspiring. While it seemed to pass quickly, each committee accomplished what all delegates should do, making connections with other members and just having fun. While this MUN was so successful, delegates and staff alike should push towards making the next one even better. I asked around for staff, delegates, chairs, members of the press team and even the BIG7 for their advice for the future.

As well as this, I asked the Vice President of the Crisis Committee, Rhys, about what he would have liked to know.

For example; I asked Hannah, the Secretary General of the BIG7 about what her advice for the future was. She said:

“Actually read the delegate handbook because there are some terms which I have never used before, but I needed to know them because delegates already know them.”

“Keep cool and stay organised at all times. Delegate work - spread the workload, and make sure everybody knows what’s going on.”

Photo by: Stine Tinsfeldt

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I also got a word from our dedicated staff member, Iben, who right now cannot speak due to excessive promotion of the BIGMONITOR. She gave a few words of advice:

“Don’t yell too much at people because you’ll end up with no voice. And just be nice. And I guess like, have fun because BIGMUN is fun and even in tough times, just smile.”

Photo by: Audrey Fryman He also gave a more serious answer:

Our columb writer, Juan, had few but wise words for future press members;

“My personal advice for anybody that chooses the press for next year is that you have to be aware that you have to be creative on demand. Once you acknowledge this, you can start changing your mentality in the way that you accept the position that you’re in.”

“... To be in press you need lots of coffee.”

Photo by: Stine Tinsfeldt Additionally, our Editor in Chief, Emma, had a smart response;

“Definitely stay organised - and try as much as possible to find the balance between being a leader and an assisting position.”

Photo by: Stine Tinsfeldt

Personally, I see all of this as good advice (especially the coffee). With this advice, I’m sure any potential candidates who aim to be Chairs or staff someday are armed with what they need to succeed. But with any role and in any place, it is always important to have fun and to appreciate what you do. I hope to see you all next year!

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The Press Social media Co Head of Social Media: Co Head of Social Media: Tobias Lawætz Christian Holm

Layout Head of Layout: Maria Wrang-Rasmussen

Sarah Castell-RüdenhausMichelle Frost

Jonathan Rashidi Tokan Nielsen

William Houmann Hansen

Oliver Antonio Giner

Maria Højrup Larsen Jamie Fuursted-Jensen

Maria Olivia Hilligsøe Katz

Jimena Fernanda Abeledo

Sofie Veber Mygland

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Team 2017 Journalists Head of Press: Pauline Mortensen

Editor in Chief: Emma Drostby

Rebecca Thao Vy Pham

Juan Carlos Briones

Photographers Head of Photography: Zoe Svendsen Borra

Tut MacCormac Audrey Savannah Fryman

Aurora Squillace

Sofie Ena Ruderman

Christian “Herkules�

Erforth Andreasen Mads Hjerrild Hansen

Josefine Bjerre Lyndgaard

Momina Hussain

Stine Emilie Tinsfeldt

Sophia Esi Brown

Laura Ulrikka Hvid-Hansen Sarah Barfod Warming

Alysia Macdonald Hansen

Toby Van Waale

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Thank you for this year!!!

See you again in 2018!!!

Answers for the cross word: Answers for the crossword: 1: senator 2: Obama did it 3: GlobalWarming 4: The president 5: secret 6: wet 7: mailbox 8: jokes

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9: stuffed 10: trouble 11: you 12: lighthouse 13: carrot 14: riverbank 15: alcohol 16: fart 17: gum

18: envelope 19: catfish 20: Wrong