General MUN Terms
A piece of cardstock with a country's name on it that a delegate raises in the air to signal to the Chair that he or she wishes to speak.
What is a Placard?
The MAL equivalent to "Point of Information" in MUN.
What is "Point of Parliamentary Inquiry?"
The current president of Syria.
Who is Bashar al-Assad?
The top social media platform used across Arab countries.
Council of Social Affairs Ministers, Topic II
What is WhatsApp?
The Arab League's principle criteria for membership.
What is language?
A break in formal debate in which countries can more easily and informally discuss a topic.
What is a Caucus? (moderated or unmoderated)
The MAL equivalent to "Point of Inquiry" in MUN.
What is no parallel motion.
While Egypt, Syria, and Yemen all had civil uprisings during the Arab Spring, only these 2 countries (among the 3) successfully ousted their rulers.
What is Egypt and Yemen?
As defined by The Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), “any act undertaken clandestinely or under false pretenses that uses cyber capabilities to gather (or attempt to gather) information with the intention of communicating it to the opposing party. The act must occur in territory controlled by a party to the conflict."
Joint Defense Council, Topic IV
What is cyber espionage?
First and longest peacekeeping mission was/is for this conflict.
What is the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
A document that has been passed by an organ of the UN that aims to address a particular problem or issue.
What is a Resolution?
The MAL equivalent to a "Vote" in MUN.
What is a "Vote?" (same)
The Arab country which currently has one of the worst food crisis/famine in the world.
What is Yemen?
As of August 1998, Israel has broken these series of treaties (that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war) by imprisoning more than 3,000 Palestinian children from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Council on Palestinian Affairs, Topic III
What are the Geneva Conventions?
The number of current member states in the Arab League.
What is 22?
A request made by a delegate that the committee as a whole do something.
What is a Motion?
The amount of votes (different from MUN) required to enter a moderated or unmoderated caucus in MAL.
What is a 2/3 majority?
The only country among the 3 (Egypt, Syria, and Yemen) to not be expelled or suspended from the Arab League.
What is Yemen?
The 7 newly-independent Arab states that established the Arab League in March 1945.
Council on Political Affairs, Topic I
What are Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen?
A common phrase used within the Arab League to describe the member states.
What is the "Arab World?"
(Other accepted answers: Arab nation, Arab homeland, Arabsphere, or Arab states)
A country that wishes a draft resolution to be put on the floor and signs the draft resolution to accomplish this. A signatory need not support a resolution; it only wants it to be discussed. Usually, Model UN conferences require some minimum number of sponsors and signatories for a draft resolution to be approved.
What is a Signatory?
While freely allowed to be added to an introduced resolution in MUN, they may not be added in MAL unless they all remove themselves or enough that the resolution cannot stand.
What is a "Sponsor?"
The current Secretary-General of the Arab league, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, is a diplomat from which country?
Hint: All but one secretary-general of the Arab League has been from this country.
What is Egypt?
The charter that the United Nations sees as "incompatible" with their understanding of human rights (as described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) with respect to women's rights and capital punishment for children.
Council on Social Affairs Ministers, Topic III
What is the Arab Charter on Human Rights?
The 4 observer states of the Arab League.
What are Eritrea, India, Brazil, and Venezuela?