SPRING 2022 BACKGROUND GUIDES

POLITICAL AND SECURITY

• • Topic 1: Reducing Cyber Attack Threats to Digital Currency, Corporations, and Infrastructures

  • Topic 2: Reducing Authoritarian Populism

  • Amendment: Amendment File

SOCIAL, HUMANITARIAN, CULTURAL

• • Topic 1: Global Protection of Indigenous Nations, Tribes, and Communities 

  • Topic 2: Ending the Afghan Humanitarian Crisis 

  • Amendment: Amendment File

DISARMAMENT

• • Topic 1: Preventing the Militarization of Space 

  • Topic 2: Hypersonic Weapons

  • Amendment: Amendment File

ECOSOC

• • Topic 1: Protecting our Vanishing Global Rainforests

  • Topic 2: Eliminating Plastic in Seas and Oceans

  • Amendment: Amendment File

SECURITY COUNCIL

• • Topic 1: Resolving India-Pakistan-China-Bhutan Border Disputes

  • Topic 2: Russia - Ukraine War

  • Amendment: Amendment File

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

Docket is Provided on the first day of Conference

• Topic 1: The Islamic Republic of Iran v. The United States of America

Certain Iranian Assets

• Topic 2: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia v. The United States of America

The Legality of the Use of Force

• Topic 3: The Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Burundi

Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo

• Topic 4: The Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Belgium

Arrest Warrant

• Topic 5: The Equotorial of Guniea v. France

Immunities and Criminal Proceedings

• Topic 6: Nicaragua v. Columbia

Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea

• Topic 7: Ukraine v. The Russian Federation

The Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination