Texas Area Model Organization of American States is designed to allow students to propose and discuss solutions to problems in the Americas.  Delegates choose a country to represent and research that country’s history, culture, and political position on certain topics.  They then write proposals for solutions to the various problems following the procedures and purposes of the Charter of the OAS. 

The Organization of American States (OAS) is an Inter-Governmental organization of the countries of the Western Hemisphere which has the following essential purposes:

To strengthen the peace and security of the Americas;

To promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of non-intervention;

To prevent possible causes of difficulties and to ensure the pacific settlement of disputes that may arise among the member states;

To provide for common action on the part of those states in the event of aggression;

To seek the solution of political, juridical, and economic problems that may arise among them;

To promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social, and cultural development, and

To achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons that will make it possible to devote the largest possible amount of resources to the economic and social development of the member states.

The peace and security of the Americas, the promotion and consolidation of democracy, and the advancement of cooperation for integral development are fundamental objectives of the OAS.”