Useful Tips

  1. Keep up on current events. We recommend reading the newspaper, watching the national news, listening to podcasts, keeping up on foreign issues, and learning about multiple points of view concerning each conflict.

  2. Learn to use multiple sources for information. Not one news outlet will include all information on a single topic or be unbiased.

  3. Be comfortable explaining a single news issue to someone else. It is easy to think that you understand a topic in your head, but when explaining it to another person, it can be very difficult.

  4. Show your commitment. This includes being on time to meetings, submitting papers on time and in the correct format, and asking questions.

  5. Be comfortable taking stances, even some that you might not personally believe in. For example, if you are assigned the role of North Korea in a human rights committee, you will need to adopt their beliefs for the simulation.

  6. Do not plan all of your speeches in advance. While it is useful to write down some points to mention in a speech, having prewritten speeches do not exemplify a delegate's ability to come up with ideas and adapt to current situations. Usually, prewritten speeches are more generic and do not respond to the current issues at hand.