The Georgia Tech Model United Nations Conference

October 13-14, 2008

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them. Dwight Eisenhower

Committees

GA 1- Disarmament and International Security

Directors

  • Tabatha Pilgrim
  • Meredith Holder

Topics

  1. Preventing the mobility of international terrorist groups
  2. Non-traditional threats to global peace and security
  3. Prevention of the development of weapons in space
 

GA 2- Economic and Financial

Directors

  • Azzam Issa
  • Enrique Celedon

Topics

  1. Improving Trade Relations between the Global North and Global South
  2. External Debt Crisis and Development
  3. Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure Development
 

GA 3- Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural

Directors

  • Molly Randall
  • Parsa Garrett

Topics

  1. Medicine and care in remote/rural areas
  2. Child Soldiers in Uganda
  3. Sexual violence against women in the Global South
 

GA 4- Special Political and Decolonization

Directors

  • Laura O'Donnell
  • Mike Donohue

Topics

  1. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
  2. Assistance in landmine action
  3. Question of the Western Sahara.
 

GA 6- Legal

Directors

  • Heather Aquilino
  • Stallings Blakely

Topics

  1. Legal accountability for environmental actions that affect multiple states
  2. Legality of military occupation
  3. Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on missions
 

GA Plenary Committee

Directors

  • Kabir Mathur
  • Tim Colquitt

Topics

  1. UN Security Council reform
  2. Arctic claims
  3. Population growth and sustainability
 

UN Security Council

Directors

  • Kathryn Stucki
  • Lindsay Hicks

Topics

  1. Situation in Kosovo
  2. Situation in Kenya
 

Historic Security Council- 1981

Directors

  • Parth Brahmbhatt
  • Jvaneel Parekh

Topics

  1. The situation in Afghanistan
  2. The question of Israel
 

UN High Commission for Refugees

Directors

  • Alyssa Crews
  • Ana Terron

Topics

  1. Refugees in Darfur
  2. Asylum for economic refugees
  3. Lao Hmong refugees
 

UN Development Programme

Directors

  • Tareq Shalhoub
  • Cari Cistola

Topics

  1. The role of micro financing projects in the development of lesser developed nations and the promotion of gender equality
  2. HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in Africa
  3. Debt relief for lesser developed nations
 

International Atomic Energy Agency

Directors

  • Lisa Palazzolo
  • Shehzin Jafar

Topics

  1. Formation of a comprehensive international framework for promoting nuclear safety and security
  2. Strengthening the NPT
  3. Enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol through nuclear energy
 

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Directors

  • J. Brian Johns
  • Keri Lavoie

Topics

  1. The development of an East Asian community
  2. Ensuring economic and human rights in Myanmar (Burma)
  3. Strengthening regional measures to prevent the illegal trafficking of drugs
 

International Court of Justice

Directors

  • James Hatten
  • Kelsie Riemenschneider

Topics

  1. Certain Questions of Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Djibouti v. France)
  2. Maritime Delimitation between Peru and Chile