Model United Nations (MUN)
From sports and arts to leadership and community engagement, students explore diverse opportunities that nurture holistic development.
Model United Nations (MUN)
From sports and arts to leadership and community engagement, students explore diverse opportunities that nurture holistic development.
MODEL UNITED NATIONS
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations, which aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda.
It provides a platform to interact and comprehend / appreciate different cultures and viewpoints. It enables students to learn to resolve the crisis / issues. It is the platform for the young ambassadors to display their act of diplomacy.
During a conference, participants must employ a variety of communication and critical thinking skills in order to represent the policies of their country. These skills include public speaking, group communication, research, policy analysis, active listening, negotiating, conflict resolution, note taking, and technical writing.
AIMUN 2023
Date: October 11-13, 2023
School won Best Delegation award at the 16th Amity Model United Nations (AIMUN), organised under the aegis of initiative of Amity Educational Resource Centre (AERC). It also hosted the inaugural ceremony of the annual conference. The three days conference was attended by 375 students, ambassadors, speakers, and distinguished guests from 3 continents and 23 cities across the world.
The annual conference was graced by Dr. (Mrs.) Amita Chauhan, Chairperson, Amity Group of Schools & RBEF along with chief guest, HE Apoorva Srivastava, Ambassador of India to Slovakia and eminent guest speakers in different committees like Joanna Perrone, Secretary General Oxford MUN 2022 (UNCSW); Tugba Basaran, Director, Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge, UK (UNHCR); Rishi Iyengar, Reporter, Foreign Policy, USA (Press Corps); Devesh Kumar, MLC, Bihar; Neha Raghav, Head of Department, Environment Education, WWF India; Major General Nalin Bhatia; HE István Szabó, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary to India, and Dr Mukesh Srivastav, Director, Amrita Sher-Gil Cultural Centre, Budapest, Hungary.
The conference had seven committees namely AIPPM (All India Political Party Meet), UNSC (United Nations Security Council), WHO (World Health Organisation), UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), G20, UNCSW (United Nations Commission on the Status of Women) and Press Corps wherein, the young delegates deliberated upon their respective agendas. The conference also saw a 30-member student reporter team comprising Global Press print AIMUN Times newsletter each day, capturing the conference activities and deliberations for the delegates.
Oxford MUN 2022
Date: November 11-16, 2022
A team of 12 Amitians from different branches of Amity Group of Schools participated in Oxford Global MUN-2022 held at Oxford University, United Kingdom. Students who participated from the school were: Evika Jain (IX) and Raunak Chopra (IX).
Amitians participated in GA-DISEC (General Assembly-Disarmament and International Security Committee), UN Women, COP-27 (The UN Climate Change Conference), Historic GA 1945, WTO (World Trade Organisation), WHO (World Health Organisation) and ECOSOC. They interacted with Amity alumni at the first ever Amity Alumni Meet UK Oxford University Chapter and University of Cambridge Chapter. They also visited India House and interacted with HE Vikram Doriaswamy, Ambassador of India to the UK, and Amish Tripathi, Minister of Culture and Education, and Director of Nehru Centre.