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T R A I N I N G S E S S I O N
M O D E L U N I T E D N A T I O N S C D G
PERFECT CHAIR
How to be the
E S T . 2 0 1 3
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–William Shakespeare
“Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.”
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Outline
• Definition
• Session Preparation
• Session Execution & Follow-up
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Part 1 : Definition
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What is a chair ?
The person in charge of a meeting or of an organisation (used as a neutral alternative to chairman or chairwoman)
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Held accountable for• Preparing the session with the team
• Communicating the materials with the delegates
• Helping the delegates before and during the session
• Ensuring that the flow of debate is respected, the content serious and the order maintained
• Following up with delegates after the session
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DOs• Be fair with delegates and encourage them to
participate in a respectful way
• Know the diplomatic procedures and the proper vocabulary
• Know the topic better than any other delegate
• Try to be as close as possible to real UN chairing
• Talk to delegates before the session and during lobbying
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DON’Ts • Be disrespectful with delegates
• Send Research Reports and countries the day before
• Be distracted by your phone, internet, etc
• Use someone else RR without reading it
• Be inflexible
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Kinds of procedures
American procedure
British procedure
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Part 2 : Session Preparation
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How we used to work• Chairs decide among themselves who will chair
the next session
• The topic is selected either by the Chairs or by the Committee
• Research Reports are written, participating countries are selected
• Email is sent
• Resolutions are reviewed, committee is selected
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Topic Selection
Novelty
Difficulty Suitability
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Research Report• Provide enough information to debate
• Written in plain english
• Depending on the difficulty of the topic provide solutions
• Try not to be biased
• Encourage delegates to research more
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Country Attribution
Completely Random
Half / Half
Completely Attributed
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Completely Random
• Countries are chosen based on topic
• They are entered on the website
• The website generates an ordered list
• The ordered list is match with names in alphabetical orders
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Completely Attributed
Competence Enjoyment
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Half / Half
• First come, first served
• Random until satisfied
• Random with adjustments
• Random with permission
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• Better if you can personalise
• Should include all the links
• Post it on Facebook/Twitter as well
• Follow up on replies
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Part 3 : Session Execution
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Opening Debate
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Speech + Questions
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Points
• Point of Information
• Point of Personal Privilege
• Point of Inquiry to the Chair
• Point of Order
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Motions• Motion to move to voting procedure
• Motion to enter debate
• Motion to enter lobbying
• Motion to divide the house
• Motion to expand debate
• Motion to follow up
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Voting Procedure
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Dealing with time
• Open/Closed Debate
• Limit the number of points
• Grant motions to move to voting, deny those to divide the house
• Accelerate things up (due to time constraints, we will now move to)
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Useful Phrases• May the house come to order
• Delegates ! Side talk is out of order
• Delegates, the official language is english, please refrain from using french
• There will be no direct dialogue between delegates
• Could the delegate rephrase in the form of a question
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Best Practices• Keep a participation sheet
• Thank delegates at the end of the session
• Try to make the process as fair and transparent as possible
• Live tweet during the session
• Send lots of notes
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Questions ?
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Thank YouBryan Blanchot & Tom Descubes
M O D E L U N I T E D N A T I O N S C D G
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