DrugaMUN 2024
This year, the Gimnazija Vič UNESCO/MUN club sent a delegation of 21 students to attend the second DrugaMUN conference, which was held at II. gimnazija Maribor between the 15th and 16th of November.
MUN events like this are educational simulations of United Nations conferences where students participate as representatives of different Member States of the UN and hold debates on some of the most pressing topics of today’s world.
At DrugaMUN 2024, the topics were the tensions in the South China Sea (in the Security Council), humanitarian implications for the life of civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (in the Human Rights Council), and the economic implications of the Russia-Ukraine conflict for the global economy (in the Economic and Social Council).
Being part of a MUN event like this tests and improves our public speaking abilities, research and writing skills, and our use of English as it is the official language of MUN.
The DrugaMUN conference hosted three committees and the General Assembly. Our delegation had representatives at each of these and were successful in achieving three awards. One Honourable Mention for runner up (Katarina Adam, HRC) and two Best Delegate awards (Žiga Kovačič, SC and Katja Dobrišek, ECOSOC).
Katarina Adam