Model UN jargon
When the chairs want the committee to settle down or come to order.
What is decorum?
The first chance a delegate has to speak in a committee
What is the speaker's list?
The year the United Nations was founded
What is 1945?
Delegates may be added to the Speaker's List by...
What is a motion to the chair?
What is UNGA?
What is United Nations General Assembly
Delegates who authored the draft resolution or actively contributed ideas
What are sponsors?
The time to move freely in the room, discuss with others, and write resolutions
What is an unmoderated caucus?
The number of countries currently involved in the UN?
What is 193?
When do you raise your placard?
What is to get on the speaker's list OR request a motion?
What is UNSC?
What is United Nations Security Council?
Fast-paced MUN committees solving problems in real-time
What are crisis committees?
A discussion where multiple speakers are given an allotted time to talk
What is a moderated caucus?
What was the most recent country to join the UN?
What is South Sudan?
What is the author or primary contributor to a working/resolution paper called?
What is DISEC?
What is Disarmament and International Security Committee?
Delegates who wish the see the draft resolution debated but may or may not agree with all of the ideas
What are signatories?
What you may say when you have finished talking before time has gone up?
What is yield to the chair?
What is the location of the UN headquarters?
What is New York, NY?
What do you call the response when another delegate calls out another delegate in a moderated caucus?
What is the Right of Reply?
What is SOCHUM?
What is Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee?
Statements in the first section of the draft resolution that describes the problems that the committee wants to solve as well as previous measures taken to combat the problem
What are pre-ambulatory clauses?
When a delegate needs to step out for personal needs (like the restroom)
What is Point of Personal Privilege?
What was the UN's predecessor organization which failed after being created at the end of WWI?
What is the League of Nations?
What is the first thing you do when you enter a committee?
What is Roll Call?
What is ICC?
What is International Criminal Court?