The Committees
AIMUN has carefully selected Six Committees to ensure learning for all age groups from 14 to 19 years. The committees focus on the world sustainable goals and its path to achieve the same.
Disarmament and International Security
(DISEC)
SGD Goal 16: Peace Justice and Strong Institutions
Topic: Impact of Private Military Security Contractors on Global Security
Security is a vital part of all nations work, and the military that often protects its security is kept under keen supervision in order to minimise loss of life and the dangers of war on civilians. However, when this security is taken by private persons, oversight and potential breaches of human rights becomes all too likely. Nevertheless, private military security can also be a way to safeguard security in areas where it is all too dangerous otherwise. Delegates here must take a nuanced and important look at global security, and the role that private contractors can take within it. The grey zone that they exist in is too dangerous to civilians and human rights to ignore.
World Health Organization
(WHO)
SDG GOAL 3: Good Health and Wellbeing
Topic: Establishing Preparedness Protocols for Epidemics and Pandemics
There remains no doubt that better protocols and planning could have prevented or at least hindered the current outbreak we are suffering. However, with the proverbial sunlight at the end of the tunnel for some countries, we must already begin to think of the lessons we can learn for future outbreaks. In this, delegates must consider some of the key collective protocols and efforts that can be made in order to reduce the possibility of a spread like this again. Mechanisms to monitor viruses, improve research, and widely prepare the world again will be useful not only for future crises, but also in current ones too.
United Nations Educations, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations
(UNESCO)
SDG GOAL 4: Quality Education
Topic: Integration of Affordable Technology to Improve Education in the Developing World
A good education is the key to a bright future, therefore a good educational system is instrumental to a prosperous society. The application of technology to national educational systems provides more tools to help improve literacy rates, make education more accessible and more affordable on a large scale. However, because of the challenges reducing the quality of life in the developing world, education suffers as a result.
United Nations Environment Program
(UNEP)
SDG GOAL 3: Good Health and Wellbeing
Topic: Economic and Environmental Maximization of Winds & Solar Energy
Green energy, especially that from the wind and the sun, is vital to reducing our carbon footprint and fulfilling many of the Sustainable development goals. As the technology to make such energy becomes easier to make and more efficient, we should now look to maximising the use of these energy producing methods and making them more accessible worldwide. Whilst countries with more developed technological fields might be able to include them in their energy grids more easily, it is up to those with more basic methods of energy generation to use these new technologies as it can speed up their overall industrialisation and productiveness. Without this, a dangerous new inequality could occur, and delegates need to grapple with both the economic drives of these green methods of energy production as well as the environmental benefits they bring.
United Nations Security Council
(UNSC)
SGD GOAL17: Partnership for the Goal
Topic: Differentiating from Cyber War from Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Crime
Cyber is a new domain by which devastating impact can be had on societies and entire nations. With the internet and otherwise digitally connected devices proliferating across the world, the nature between cybercrimes, terrorism, and all-out war continue to confuse and delay appropriate responses from those protecting our society. The UNSC, as the key body defining breaches of peace in the international system, must evaluate these scenarios and set globally defining guidelines on malicious intent in the cyber domain. Delegates in the UNSC here must be able to delve in depth into both the political, and technological understanding of these different actions, and how the international community should seek to respond to them.
International Court of Justice
(ICJ)
SGD GOAL 10: Reduced Inequalities
Topic: Reforming Mediation Efforts to Make a Fairer and More Efficient Conflict resolution Apparatus
Mediation has always been and remains a key way to help bring conflict resolution. Both at the UN, other international bodies, and through private individuals, mediation has saved lives through the important neutral and trustworthy process it can be. However, both legally and politically mediation efforts are difficult to set up, and can sometimes lead to problematic situations of unfairness, strongarming, and inefficient use of resources. The ICJ, as a legal body for the United Nations to seek direction from, is able to push for some reform to the mediation process, and delegates within the ICJ here should seek to engage with important real-world examples of mediation, both successful and unsuccessful, to try and improve these efforts and save more lives in the future.