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Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural committee (Advanced)
1, Child Soldiers in Non-State Armed Groups: Prevention and Rehabilitation
The recruitment of children into armed groups devastates communities and violates international law.
Delegates will discuss prevention strategies, accountability for recruiters, protection in conflict zones, and long-term reintegration programs that heal trauma and rebuild futures.
2, Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict & Post-Conflict Zones
The actions of war, looting, extremism, and natural decay threaten cultural sites and traditions.
Delegates will explore strategies for safeguarding heritage, empowering local communities, and use preservation as a mechanism for peacebuilding and reconciliation.
Historical Security Council (Advanced)
1, 1956: The Suez Crisis and Cold War Balancing
With Egypt’s nationalization of the Suez Canal, Britain, France, and Israel launched a military intervention that reshaped the global order.
With Egypt’s nationalization of the Suez Canal, Britain, France, and Israel launched a military intervention that reshaped the global order.
Delegates must navigate colonial interests, rising postcolonial sovereignty, U.S-Soviet rivalry, and a UN struggling to assert authority. Core debates include legality of force, control over strategic waterways and role of big powers.
Delegates must navigate colonial interests, rising postcolonial sovereignty, U.S-Soviet rivalry, and a UN struggling to assert authority. Core debates include legality of force, control over strategic waterways and role of big powers.
2, 2003: The Invasion of Iraq and the Case for Preemptive War
Delegates revisit one of the most contested uses of force in modern history. Did the U.S-led invasion violate the UN Charter? Can preemptive war ever be legitimate without an imminent threat?
This committee will explore intelligence failures, geopolitical motives, regional consequences, and how this conflict shaped global norms on intervention.
International Court of Justice (Advanced)
1, Japan v. Australia – The Whaling Case
1, Japan v. Australia – The Whaling Case
The ICJ at SGMUN will hear Australia v. Japan, a landmark case questioning whether Japan’s Antarctic whaling program-JARPA II-was legitimate scientific research or a violation of the international ban on commercial whaling. Delegates will step into the roles of judges and counsels to debate treaty obligations, assess scientific evidence, and interpret the limits of environmental protection under international law. This committee offers a challenging, courtroom-style experience where precision, persuasion, and legal strategy shape the final judgment.
The ICJ at SGMUN will hear Australia v. Japan, a landmark case questioning whether Japan’s Antarctic whaling program-JARPA II-was legitimate scientific research or a violation of the international ban on commercial whaling. Delegates will step into the roles of judges and counsels to debate treaty obligations, assess scientific evidence, and interpret the limits of environmental protection under international law. This committee offers a challenging, courtroom-style experience where precision, persuasion, and legal strategy shape the final judgment.
Special Political and Decolonization council (Intermediate)
1, The UN’s Role in Post-Colonial Land and Territorial Reconciliation
Colonial-era, land seizures, and border demarcations continue to spark disputes and ethnic tensions today.
Delegates will explore how UN bodies can support restitution, mediation, border reforms, and community-driven reconciliation without destabilizing fragile regions.
2, Establishing Guidelines to regulate Cyber Colonialism
2, Establishing Guidelines to regulate Cyber Colonialism
Cyber-colonialism is reshaping global power as many Global South nations rely on foreign-owned digital infrastructure, raising concerns about sovereignty, surveillance, and economic dependency.
Cyber-colonialism is reshaping global power as many Global South nations rely on foreign-owned digital infrastructure, raising concerns about sovereignty, surveillance, and economic dependency.
Delegates will explore how the UN can support digital self-determination, regulate external control over critical technologies, and ensure fair digital development.
Delegates will explore how the UN can support digital self-determination, regulate external control over critical technologies, and ensure fair digital development.
Security Council (Advanced)
1, Escalation of the Sudan Proxy War: Regional Interference and UN Paralysis
Sudan’s proxy war, fueled by foreign arms and funding, is intensifying violence across key regions and borders, causing mass displacement, rising famine, and wider regional instability.
Delegates must confront the UN’s restricted ability to act amid blocked aid, sovereignty disputes, and Security Council divides, while balancing humanitarian needs with curbing external interference.
2, Regulating Private Military Contractors in Conflict Zones
Private military contractors are transforming modern warfare, yet oversight remains fragmented and weak.
Delegates will debate the legal grey zones around accountability, human rights, transparency, and the erosion of state control over force. How can the international community regulate profit-driven actors, while ensuring operational effectiveness and lawful conduct?
Economic and Social council (Intermediate)
Economic and Social council (Intermediate)
1, Utilization of Profits from Russia’s Frozen Assets
1, Utilization of Profits from Russia’s Frozen Assets
The EU is redirecting billions in interest earned from Russia’s frozen central bank assets to support Ukraine’s defense and reconstruction, raising major questions about sanctions law, asset ownership, and global financial precedent.
The EU is redirecting billions in interest earned from Russia’s frozen central bank assets to support Ukraine’s defense and reconstruction, raising major questions about sanctions law, asset ownership, and global financial precedent.
Delegates will debate the legality of using sovereign funds in conflict, the risks of setting new norms for asset seizure, and how such measures impact international stability and economic governance.
Delegates will debate the legality of using sovereign funds in conflict, the risks of setting new norms for asset seizure, and how such measures impact international stability and economic governance.
2, Addressing Strategies for Economic Diversification in Oil-Dependent Economies
Oil-dependent economies face rising pressure to diversify as price volatility, climate policies, and technological change threaten long-term stability.
Delegates will explore how countries can build competitive new sectors while overcoming obstacles such as weak infrastructure, limited skills, governance challenges, and reliance on fossil-fuel revenue for public services. Key debates include using oil income to fund green growth, attracting investment, and ensuring a fair transition for affected workers.
Artificial Intelligence (Open to all)
1, Establishing guidelines for the ethical governance of autonomous surgical systems.
As AI-driven surgical robots gain greater autonomy, questions arise over safety, liability, algorithmic bias, and patient consent. Delegates will examine how the international community should regulate autonomous surgical systems to ensure transparency, oversight, and ethical decision-making in life-or-death scenarios. Key debates include setting global standards, defining accountability when machines act independently, and balancing innovation with patient protection.
2, AI Automation and Its Impact on Employment.
AI systems increasingly replace or transform human labor across industries, and countries face rising concerns about job displacement, economic inequality, and the future of work. Delegates will examine how governments and international bodies should regulate automation, protect workers, and ensure fair transitions into new forms of employment. Key debates include upskilling policies, social safety nets, ethical deployment of AI in the workplace, and balancing innovation with social responsibility.
World Food Programme (Open to all)
1, Strengthening the World Food Programme's Response to Global Crises
As natural disasters, conflicts, and climate shocks intensify, the World Food Programme faces increasing pressure to deliver rapid, effective humanitarian aid.
Delegates will explore how to improve emergency logistics, funding mechanisms, supply chain resilience, and partnerships to ensure timely food assistance. Key debates include data-driven early warning systems, equitable distribution, and safeguarding aid operations in volatile environments.
2, The Weaponization of Food in Conflict Zones
2, The Weaponization of Food in Conflict Zones
Food insecurity is increasingly used as a tool of war through blockades, resource destruction, sanctions, and manipulation of supply chains.
Food insecurity is increasingly used as a tool of war through blockades, resource destruction, sanctions, and manipulation of supply chains.
Delegates will examine how the international community can prevent the use of hunger as a weapon, protect civilians, and enforce accountability for violations of humanitarian law. Core discussions include access corridors, monitoring mechanisms, and the role of the UN in mitigating deliberate starvation tactics.
Delegates will examine how the international community can prevent the use of hunger as a weapon, protect civilians, and enforce accountability for violations of humanitarian law. Core discussions include access corridors, monitoring mechanisms, and the role of the UN in mitigating deliberate starvation tactics.
Food and Agriculture Organization (Open to all)
1, Sustainable Fisheries Management
1, Sustainable Fisheries Management
Overfishing, climate change, and weak regulation are driving the rapid depletion of global fish stocks, threatening food security and coastal livelihoods.
Overfishing, climate change, and weak regulation are driving the rapid depletion of global fish stocks, threatening food security and coastal livelihoods.
Delegates will explore how the international community can strengthen fisheries governance through better monitoring, marine conservation efforts, and equitable resource sharing. Key debates include combating illegal fishing, protecting vulnerable ecosystems, and balancing economic needs with long-term sustainability.
Delegates will explore how the international community can strengthen fisheries governance through better monitoring, marine conservation efforts, and equitable resource sharing. Key debates include combating illegal fishing, protecting vulnerable ecosystems, and balancing economic needs with long-term sustainability.
2, Supporting Farmers in Adapting to Climate Change
Farmers around the world face rising temperatures, unpredictable weather, soil degradation, and shifting growing seasons.
Delegates will examine strategies to help agricultural communities adapt such as climate-resilient crops, improved irrigation, financial support, and sustainable farming practices. Discussions will focus on bridging technology gaps, ensuring food security, and protecting rural livelihoods in the face of accelerating climate impacts.
Human rights council (Beginner)
1, Surveillance Technologies and the Right to Privacy
1, Surveillance Technologies and the Right to Privacy
The rapid expansion of surveillance technologies, especially in authoritarian states, threatens the right to privacy and exposes citizens to unchecked monitoring and abuse.
Delegates must balance national security concerns with civil liberties while strengthening legal frameworks to regulate surveillance and protect individual freedoms.
2, Treatment of Detainees in Offshore Immigration Facilities
2, Treatment of Detainees in Offshore Immigration Facilities
Offshore detention centers face ongoing criticism for overcrowding, poor conditions, and limited legal protections for migrants and asylum seekers.
Delegates must address state accountability under international law, ensure humane treatment, and reform practices that risk violating fundamental human rights.
DISEC (Beginner)
1, Preventing the Weaponization of Outer Space
As global dependence on satellites for communication, navigation, and security intensifies, the development of anti-satellite capabilities and space-based weapons heightens the risk of an arms race beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
Delegates must evaluate existing legal instruments, such as the Outer Space Treaty, while proposing confidence-building measures and verification mechanisms to prevent the deployment of weapons in outer space, safeguard its peaceful use, and reduce the likelihood of conflict escalation.
2, Lethal Autonomous Weapons: The Threshold of Acceptable Use
The emergence of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) presents profound ethical, legal, and strategic challenges, particularly regarding accountability, compliance with international humanitarian law, and the protection of civilians.
Delegates must assess whether such systems should be prohibited, strictly regulated, or permitted under defined constraints, balancing military innovation and state security interests with humanitarian principles and the prevention of unintended escalation.
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