Delegate Resources

How to use Discord

Terms and general MUN knowledge

https://bestdelegate.com/model-un-made-easy-top-20-important-terms-to-know-in-committee/

Rules of Virtual Parliamentary Procedure

MOTIONS:

Motions are how delegates can move a debate, and will be either voted on by the committee or overruled by the chairs if seen dilatory. Some of these motions include:

• Motion to start debate: used at the first session of debate to enter debate.

• Motion to suspend debate: used when the debate is to be continued at a later time

• Motion to resume debate: used after breaks/suspensions to continue debate

• Motion to close debate: used at the last session to formally end debate

• Motion for a Moderated/Unmoderated Caucus…

• • 1. Caucuses are the way the majority of the committee is handled. They create a space and time for specific issues to be talked about. Moderated caucuses have a specific topic and time, and are, as the name suggests, moderated. For each intervention, the Chair will sound the gavel and all those who are wishing to speak are to raise their placards into the air. Once a delegate is called, he/she will have the time described when motioning for the caucus to make their intervention. Unmoderated Caucuses are held without a topic and are not regulated by the chairs. Delegates are free to talk as they wish. These are usually used to settle upon directives/resolutions or used to draft said resolutions. Do not be fooled, however. Unmoderated Caucuses are the spaces in which Chairs really get to see who has the best ideas, and who is leading the conversation on the topic at hand.

• Motion for a Moderated Caucus

• • • • 1. These must include: topic of the caucus, duration of the caucus, and time allotted per speaker.

        2. Ex: “Moderated Caucus for 15 minutes, 45 seconds per speaker to debate the Enforcement of Gun Laws in America”

• Motion for an Unmoderated Caucus

• • • • 1. These must include only a duration, but a chair may ask for a reason if an un-mod seems unnecessary or overrule it.

• Motion to introduce directive/amendment/press release: Introduce to the committee one of the former, to be discussed or enforced. (CRISIS)

• Motion to introduce bill (Used in Congress)

• Motion to proceed to voting procedures/last question.

POINTS:

• Point of Information: for when a delegate wants to know something about the topic debated, if the question is obvious or the delegate should know this information, it will promptly out-ruled

• • • 1. Ex: “Do we have a response from the directive sent to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs?”

• Point of Personal Privilege: for personal inconveniences a delegate may have

• • • 1. Ex: “May the previous delegate repeat his motion once again please?”

• Point of Parliamentary Inquiry: for when a delegate doesn’t know rules of procedure on the debate)

• • • 1. Ex: “How much votes are needed for this bill to pass?”

Bill Example (Resolution)