The JCCC Model United Nations team received two Outstanding Delegation Awards at the 2011 Model United Nations Conference Nov. 19-22 in Chicago, Ill.
The first accolade was the Policy Overall Best Delegation award, given for best representing the policies of JCCC’s assigned country of Cuba. The second was an Outstanding Delegation award representing the economic and financial policies of Cuba.
As part of pre-conference preparation, team members presented position papers and received awards. The position paper serves as a blueprint for building consensus and formulating and negotiating workable draft resolutions to resolve issues.
Thirteen papers were submitted for the conference this year – seven for Cuba and six for Haiti.
Below are the names of the committee for which the papers were prepared, the team member(s) who prepared the position paper and the country represented.
| General Assembly Plenary Committee: Dustin Morris and Natalie VanMaanen, Cuba; Ryan Donovan, Haiti. | |
| Disarmament and International Security Committee: Megan Willard, Cuba; Matt Lantz, Haiti. | |
| Economic and Financial Committee: James Khalif, Cuba; Xiang Jin, Haiti. | |
| Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee: Elvira Babaeva, Cuba; Aizhan Tazhigulova and Caitlynn Adams, Haiti. | |
| Legal Committee: Samantha Poetter, Cuba; Nichole Taylor, Haiti. | |
| World Health Assembly: Ben Brown, Cuba; Kanasha Neddo, Haiti. | |
| Commission on Sustainable Development: Ho Hoi Chun and Nathan George, Cuba. |
The team’s adviser is Brian Wright, associate professor, political science.
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