The Delegate’s World
A person authorized to represent a country or other assigned entity in a Model UN committee.
Who is a delegate?
A formal document expressing a UN body’s decisions, recommendations, or position on an issue after adoption.
What is a resolution?
The practice of managing international relationships through discussion, representation, and negotiation.
What is diplomacy?
A statement asserting something that a delegate seeks to establish through reasoning and evidence
What is a claim?
A state’s authority to govern itself and exercise authority within its territory.
What is sovereignty?
The group of representatives attending a conference on behalf of the same country or entity.
What is a delegation?
An introductory clause explaining a resolution’s background, concerns, or reasons for action.
What is a preambulatory clause?
A group of countries working together because they share interests or positions on an issue.
What is a bloc?
Facts, statistics, examples, or documented information used to support an argument.
What is evidence?
A formal agreement between states governed by international law.
What is a treaty?
A country that belongs to the United Nations.
What is a Member State?
A clause stating the actions, recommendations, or requests a resolution proposes.
What is an operative clause?
An agreement reached when participants make concessions to accommodate different positions.
What is a compromise?
An opposing argument that challenges a delegate’s claim or proposed solution.
What is a counterargument?
Restrictive measures, such as trade limitations or asset freezes, used to pressure a state, organization, or individual.
What are sanctions?
A participant permitted to attend and contribute to proceedings but whose voting rights may be limited by its status and the applicable rules.
What is an observer?
An early document in which delegates develop proposals before those proposals are accepted as a draft resolution.
What is a working paper?
An approach to international cooperation involving several countries working together.
What is multilateralism?
A response that challenges an opposing argument by identifying weaknesses or presenting contrary evidence and reasoning.
What is a rebuttal?
The principle that states should refrain from coercively interfering in matters another state is entitled to decide for itself.
What is non-intervention?
A country’s official approach to its relationships with other countries, which delegates should represent rather than their personal opinions.
What is foreign policy?
A proposed resolution formally accepted for the committee’s consideration but not yet adopted.
What is a draft resolution?
Adoption of a decision without a formal vote, generally because no participant raises an objection.
What is adoption by consensus?
The responsibility to provide sufficient support for a claim rather than expecting others to accept it without proof.
What is the burden of proof?
The principle that threats to peace concern the wider international community and should be addressed through a shared security system.
What is collective security?