Get the true UN experience! April 28 - May 2, 2016 Jaypee Palace Hotel and Convention Centre, Agra www.wimun.org/india
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The World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) is a global nonprofit organization working for a stronger and more effective United Nations. We are the largest international network of people who support and engage with the United Nations.
Established in 1946, WFUNA represent and coordinate a membership of over 100 United Nations Associations and their countless numbers of members and organizations. Alongside such network, WFUNA works to build a better world by strengthening and improving the United Nations through the engagement of people who share a global mindset and support international cooperation.
Our vision is that youth all over the world are engaged in positive global change.
Indian Federation of United Nations Associations (IFUNA) was established more than four decades ago to promote the objectives of the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies. It is a Non-Governmental, Voluntary, Non-Profit Organization working for International Peace and Understanding. IFUNA strives to focus its programs and activities around the vital concerns of the United Nations, like, Peace, International Understanding, Environment and Human Rights. IFUNA maintains close liaisons with Government Organizations, Press and Diplomatic Missions interested in United Nations activities. IFUNA has already created a niche for itself in the academic and social circles of the country through its varied and numerous activities like Lectures, Seminars, Symposiums, and Observance of UN Days, Debates, Competitions and Exhibitions on UN Subjects. IFUNA is affiliated with the World Federation of United Nations Associations WFUNA. IFUNA is the only body to represent India in the UN Forums.
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The World Federation of United Nations Association (WFUNA) is partnered with MUNCafé to co-host the inaugural session of WIMUN India in 2016. MUNCafé also makes WIMUN available for students in India, the Middle East and South Asia and brought close to 100 students to participate in WIMUN 2015, New York.
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MUNCafé is a brand of Worldview Education which is founded and managed by professionals with many decades of cumulative experience in experiential education through simulations such as Model UN. MUNCafé, a Global Academic Simulations Platform designs, develops and delivers enriching Model UN experiences with a focus on personal, academic & professional development. Over 10,000 school students & young people from India, The USA, China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, the UAE, Oman, Malaysia, Columbia, Canada, Nepal and Singapore have participated in various learning programs & experiences facilitated by MUNCafé since 2009.
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Training, Mentorship through MUNCafé’s Global MUN Ambassadors Program
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Apart from hosting, co-hosting and facilitating various Model United Nations experiences MUNCafé also focuses on the development of the MUN eco-system through the development & delivery of various comprehensive training & learning programs such as MUNX, MUNtor, GMAP, MUNTimes, the Millennium Conference, the Pearls of Asia Series among others.
WFUNA INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS WFUNA International Model United Nations (WIMUN) is the world’s most accurate simulation of the United Nations and is the flagship Model UN conference hosted and organized by the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA). Located at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, WFUNA has worked closely with the UN Department of Public Information (UNDPI) to precisely simulate the United Nations in Model UN programs and provide students with the most realistic experience possible. The WIMUN conference features intensive training workshops delivered by UN officials, briefings on important agenda items by UN Agencies, and conference sessions at the UN Headquarters at the flagship conference in New York. WIMUN is one of the first Model UN to collaborate so closely with the UN and to implement official UNDPI Model UN platform “UN4MUN” on such a large scale. WIMUN is an opportunity for youth empowerment through civic engagement and understanding of relevant global issues. In 2016, the first regional conference of WIMUN will be held in Agra, India from April 28 - May 2, co-hosted by WFUNA, IFUNA and MUNCafé - a brand of Worldview Education Services Private Limited.
WIMUN India advantage
Experience Sessions by the Wonder of the World
Most Accurate Simulation of the UN procedure
WIMUN India will be held in all the grandeur of Jaypee Palace Hotel and Convention Centre, Agra. The majestic venue overlooks the magnificent Wonder of the World, the Taj Mahal.
UN4MUN uses Rules of Procedure that reflect those used at the UN, choosing a leadership structure that more accurately mirrors the relationship between the UN GA and UN Secretariat, incorporating a negotiation process that aims to build consensus on the text of a draft resolution. This makes for the most accurate simulation of the UN Rules of Procedure.
TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS BY UN OFFICIALS
DIVERSITY OF PARTICIPANTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP IN COMMITTEE
Get the MUNCafĂŠ edge with training sessions run by MUN trainers who are experts in UN4MUN procedure leading up to WIMUN India!
Participation of more than 350 high school and university students from across 30 cities and territories in India and over 5 countries will ensure a truly global debate.
Every participating delegate has the opportunity to be a Committee Chair through a voting process which is inherent to the UN4MUN procedure and is a representation of the actual procedure at the UN!
In addition, experience intensive in-conference workshops, speaker sessions and training sessions on the UN4MUN Procedure.
Students will develop a strong global peer network that will introduce them to a plethora of new ideas, opinions and cultures.
WIMUN INDIA CONFERENCE THEME The 2030 Agenda for Change The conference theme “The 2030 Agenda for Change� and the selected issues on the UN agenda challenges all participants to engage actively with the Post-2015 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals to make a strong and meaningful contribution to the ongoing dialogue.
COUNCILS & COMMITTEES The first regional WIMUN conference in India will simulate the following:
University Division
General Assembly First Committee:United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons High School Division United Nations Security Council I: Youth, Peace and Security (Resolution 2250) United Nations Security Council II:Road Map for Peace Process in Syria (Resolution 2254) General Assembly Second Committee: Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind General Assembly Third Committee: Advancement of women General Assembly Fourth Committee: Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects
WIMUN Secretariat
Experienced and accomplished MUN alumni from around the world apply and form the Secretariat. •
The members of the Secretariat and Committee Secretaries have attended more than 200 MUN conferences globally • On an average, they have 5 years of experience in hosting, chairing and participating in International MUN conferences • Each hailing from a different geographic region of the world, being a student or alumnus of a reputed university, and also speaking various languages bring diversity of thoughts and knowledge to the committees.
200+ 6 # MUNs attended globally
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Katherine Bonner, Secretary-General Katherine is a ten-year Model United Nations veteran from The USA. Her experience includes competing in and coordinating conferences, and training delegates in MUN procedure and skills. While attending Emory University, she served as the Director-General for its inaugural collegiate conference as well as the Secretary for its Model United Nations club. Beyond this, she has worked with Best Delegate in various training and media roles and UNA-USA in committee and conference leadership capacities. She recently served as Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Management at WIMUN 2015 in New York and has been a trainer at WFUNA Youth Camp Korea 2016.
Karsten J Kip Under-Secretary-General GA & Conference Management
Saketh Ramchandra Under-Secretary-General Dept. of Public Information
Caleb Oh Director, UN Security Council: Youth, Peace & Security
Vitaly Savenkov Director, UN Security Council: Peace Process in Syria
Limaben Jamir Secretary, General Assembly First Committee
MinChan Kim Secretary, General Assembly Second Committee
Colin Kimberlin Secretary, General Assembly Third Committee
Gedaliah Dreyfuss Secretary, General Assembly Fourth Committee
Some of the other notable speakers from WIMUN, Rome and WIMUN, New York:
Past speakers at wimun
Chang Beom Cho, Vice President, WFUNA Michael O’Neill, Asst Secretary-General, UNDP Yoonie Kim, Political Affairs Officer, UN Dept of Political Affairs
Alain Seckler, Political Affairs Officer, UN Dept of Peacekeeping Operations
Cissa Wa Numbe, Secretary-General, UNA of Democratic Republic of Congo
Allison Pytlak, Policy and Advocacy Specialist, Secretariat of the Control Arms Coalition
Bonian Golmohammadi Secretary-General, WFUNA
Jan Eliasson Deputy Secretary-General, UN Former President, UN GA
Christina Gallach Under Secretary-General, Dept of Public Information, UN
Ahmad Alhendawi Envoy on Youth, United Nations
Ignazio Marino Mayor Rome, Italy
Erika Jeoregensen Acting Director, Govt Partnership Division, WFP
Daniël Prins, Chief, Conventional Arms Branch, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, UNCTAD, NY Sonia Smallacombe, Social Affairs Officer, Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Professor Naomi H. Harley, Ph.D. New York University School of Medicine, US Delegate to UNSCEAR Ambassador Hahn Choong-hee, Deputy Perm Rep., Republic of Korea to the UN, NY Benedetto Dellavedova, Under-Secretary, Italian MOFA Jomo Sundaram, Asst Director-General, FAO Jinkang Wu, Chief- Asia & the Pacific Liaison Office and Special Advisor, President IFAD Franco Frattini, President of SIOI
Agra, The majesty of the Taj Poet Rabindranath Tagore described it as 'a teardrop on the cheek of eternity', Rudyard Kipling as 'the embodiment of all things pure', while its creator, Emperor Shah Jahan, said it made 'the Sun and the Moon shed tears from their eyes'. The fifth Mughal Emporer built the Wonder of the World to honour his beloved late wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Agra, sitting on the bank of the river Yamuna, welcomes tourists numbering more than twice the population of the city for their once-in-a-lifetime glimpse of what is widely considered the most beautiful monument in the world. WIMUN is proud and excited to host its inaugural India session in the city of Agra; and to further enhance the experience, WIMUN participants will be part of an extraordinary exploration of the Wonder itself!
Jaypee Palace Hotel & Convention Centre
The luxurious Jaypee Palace Hotel and Convention Centre, a glorious structural blend of red sandstone and marble is spread over an unbounded 25 acres of elegantly landscaped luxuriant greenery in Agra, overlooking the magnificent Taj Mahal. Sprinkled with enormous water bodies and endless walkways, it blends Mughal and contemporary architecture with modern amenities. Leading the way to luxurious rooms and suites, the impressive interiors along the way set the tone for a majestic conference experience.
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Unbelievable price for a 5-star hotel and conference experience
Conference Fees
Delegate Fee
Domestic
International
23,500 INR
420 USD
There will be no delegation fee (school fee) charged for participation. All delegates will be assigned double occupancy rooms by default.
WFUNA International Model United Nations India April 28 - May 2, 2016. Jaypee Palace Hotel & Convention Centre, Agra
For every 10 delegates in a delegation, the fee for 1 Faculty Advisor is waived off. For delegation sizes less than 10, following FA Fees will apply. Domestic
International
Single occupancy FA Fee
23,500 INR
420 USD
Double Occupancy FA FEE
13,500 INR
250 USD
Conference Fee Inclusions • • • • • •
UN4MUN Training - before & during the conference by experts Accommodation at Jaypee Palace Hotel for 4 Nights / 5 days 12 Meals starting with Dinner on Day1 to Lunch on Day 5 including breakfast Entry to all the social events and speaker series Logistical assistance for the participants who need visa Guided exploration of the Taj Mahal with local historians
Note: Transfers from Delhi Airport & Agra Railway Station to the venue can be availed with an additional cost. Please contact the us for the same.
Registration and more information on:
www.wimun.org/india Reach us on +91 40 6463 0058 / 0095 wimun.india@wfuna.org
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