IELMUN

• PREVENTION OF AN ARMS RACE IN OUTER SPACE

• AVOIDING FURTHER CONFLICTS IN EASTERN EUROPE

The first committee of the General Assembly, Disarmament and International Security Committee, also known as DISEC, is concerned with disarmament issues and maintaining international security related to it. The main goal of the committee is to establish a stable demilitarized international stage by taking all disarmament matters into consideration and ensure the stability and safety of all Member States. Furthermore, DISEC also deals with different international frameworks that establish universal disarmament procedures that puts forward international stabilization and provides a conflict-free world for the Member States.

Roughly since the beginning of WWI there has been an arms race to develop higher technology weaponry and use innovation to outweigh manpower between different powers and centers of influence. This trend has since not faded and the military still is one of the biggest fields that breeds innovation. However, a lot of time has passed and a lot has changed from when the British first experimented with tanks and armored vehicles in the fields of France. Now, over a dozen countries are in possession of a nuclear arsenal and the arms race has moved towards space. We now know that two Russian satellites were stalking an American satellite high over the earth last year and scenes out of star wars are increasingly more plausible. You’re tasked with de-escalating the situation in outer space, which may lead to a disruption of vital services like GPS, Internet and telecommunication. You are expected to build upon the previous Outer Space Treaty in 1967 and other previous UN Resolutions on the matter.

The second agenda item for this committee is avoiding further conflicts in Eastern Europe. Out of the multiple conflicts unfolding simultaneously throughout the world, perhaps the Russo-Ukrainian the most complicated and geopolitically challenging ones. You, delegates, are tasked with navigating around the largest nuclear powers and coming to a diplomatic long-lasting solution that will lead in disarmament and de-escalation of the conflict. This is a unique opportunity for you to demonstrate your diplomatic skills and express your own ideas on perhaps the most up to date issue that will be discussed in IELMUN 2022. We really look forward to hearing your unique solutions and have full confidence in the potential of thşs agenda item’s potential to foster a fruitful debate.

• TEDARİK ZİNCİRİNDE BÜYÜK KÜRESEL ANLAŞMAZLIKLARIN ÖNLENMESİ

• SERBEST YATIRIM FONLARI VE SPEKÜLATİF YATIRIMLARIN ETKİLERİNE KARŞI ÖNLEMLER

Genel Kurulun ikinci komitesi olan Ekonomik ve Finansal İşler Konseyi, bir diğer adıyla EKOFİN, Avrupa Birliği politikasında üç farklı ana göreve sahiptir: vergilendirme meselesi, ekonomik politikalar ve finansal servislerin regülasyonu. Bu komite aynı zamanda Birleşmiş Milletlerin bütçesini hazırlar ve Euro para biriminin yasal ve pratik yönlerini yönetmekle sorumludur.

Komitemizin birinci gündem maddesi, tedarik zincirinde büyük küresel anlaşmazlıkların önlenmesidir. COVID-19 Pandemisi dünyayı ticari açıdan neredeyse durma noktasına getirdi, yaşam tarzımızı baştan yazıp bizi sosyoekonomik ve kültürel anlamda hayatımızı yeniden yapılandırmaya zorladı. Ülkelerarası, hatta bazı durumlarda eyaletler ve şehirlerarası ticaret bile bu bağlamda ağır regülasyonlar altında kontrol ediliyor ya da direkt olarak yasalar altında yasaklanıyor. Bundan dolayı da tedarik zincirimiz büyük zarar görüyor. Tedarik zincirleri, zamanı ve maliyeti minimuma indirip kârı maksimum düzeye çıkarmak için kurulan; üretimden lojistiğe, pazarlamadan reklamlamaya, bir ticari transaksiyonun gerçekleşmesi için gereken bütün basamakları bağlayan hassas ve ayrıntılı şebekelerdir. Bu basamaklardan bir tanesi bile bir sıkıntıya uğrasa bütün tedarik zinciri çöker ve ticari anlaşma gerçekleşemez. Hiç şüphesizdir ki COVID-19 Pandemisi, 21. Yüzyılda tedarik zincirine zarar veren bir numaralı ezici faktördür. Konferans boyunca komitemizdeki delegelerden beklenen, pandemi öncesi dünyada yeni bir tedarik zinciri modeli oluşturmak ve küresel pazarların işlemesi için yeni yollar üretmektir.

İkinci gündem maddemiz serbest yatırım fonları ve spekülatif yatırımların etkilerine karşı alınacak önlemlerdir. Finansal pazarlarımızın borsa piyasasının oynaklığına bağlılığı giderek arttığından, manipülatif etkenler sadece ulusal bazda değiş uluslararası ölçekte büyük finansal çöküşe yol açma tehdidi barındırıyor. Bunu göz önünde bulundurarak ülkelerin bir araya gelip bu tehditleri elimine etmek için borsada uluslararası bir çerçeve çizerek ekonomik dengemizin ve alım gücümüzün garantisini sağlaması şart oluyor. Delegelerden, komite boyunca ekonomiyi yok edip kendini zengin etme amaçlı kötü niyetli aktörleri saf dışı bırakmak için çözümler bulmaları bekleniyor.

• REMEDYING THE EFFECTS OF COLONISATION IN FORMER COLONIES

• THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT

  The fourth committee of the General Assembly, Special Political and Decolonisation (SPECPOL) committee deals with a wide variety of political questions with an emphasis on decolonisation. SPECPOL is furthermore concerned with international political issues such as UN Peacekeeping, political extremism, refugee crises, human rights violations in the areas of conflict and decolonisation.

  Addressing the legacy of colonization is one of the biggest subjects of scholarly debate and prowess in the last 20 years. Even though we now have an understanding of the effects of colonialism from economic, anthropological, sociological viewpoints, we still are yet to determine its full legacy. Bearing this in mind, the data we already have is devastating.Great Britain plundered about 45 trillion dollars from India until 1948 and France still holds 500 billion dollars in their banks from African countries yearly. The scale of losses the developing world faced and still face are inconceivable and these numbers just cale the surface. With this in mind, the international community must come up with a multi-faceted and cogent strategy to reprimand these losses and facilitate growth in spite of the colonial past. This strategy must not be of only economic escence or only entail the allocation of money. It must be able to also address the societal and cultural aftermath of it ranging from the divide between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda to dangerous yet ubiquitous skin whitening operations in the Indian Subcontinent which is a result of the imposition of eurocentric beauty standards into colonized peoples. 

  The second agenda item for this committee is directly linked with the first one, namely the mitigation of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the world's most enduring conflicts, with the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reaching 54 years of conflict. Many great statesman over the course of decades attempted to to solve the Israeli-Palestinian question, just to be unsuccesful and humiliated. The seemingly infinite components of the conflict make the conflict even more paradoxical. On one hand, you must advocate for and point out human rights violations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, but also must come to a reasonable concession with Israel for the agreement to be meaningful. You must seek out a fine balance between almost all heavy players and şneterst groups on the world arena. This presents a very unşque challenge but also an equally unique opportunity to uncover your potential.

  
  

• THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

• PROTECTING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

  The UNHRC is an organization whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.

  This year in IELMUN, our first agenda item is the right to privacy in the digital age. The issue has been asserting itself as one of the most prominent challenges of the 21st century. As the reach of technology grows, as social media becomes a big part of our daily lives and we welcome technology to every private and communal space, who controls it and how it’s regulated becomes even more important. There is still a lot that is covert, unethical and secretive about how our data is gathered, processed and eventually, sold. This committee’s purpose is to bring an end to such disambiguation and come up with a long-lasting, sustainable and all-encompassing solution to the diminishing privacy of individuals in the digital age.

  The second agenda item is the protection of the freedom of speech in developing nations. Recent developments gave rise to many autocratic and hybrid regimes in the developing world, whether it be Russia, China or the Philippines. Reports show that ⅓ of the population now live under nations without freedoms. This presents a remarkable challenge to the international community to guarantee the freedom to speech, to convene, to freely express their faith and foster an environment in which everyone can freely express their ideas and not be prosecuted for who they are. This is exactly what you are tasked with. We expect you to come up with new and creative ideas and put your own spin into the issue in IELMUN 2022.

  
  

• THE FUTURE OF DRUG POLICY

• SOLIDIFYING ANTI-PANDEMIC MEASURES

The World Health Organisation is a United Nations agency, whose mission is to promote health to, ensure the well-being of and establish universal health for the people all around the world.

With the ever increasing normalization and commercialization of the recreational uses of psychedelic and hallucinatory drugs, ranging from MDMA to Marijuana and LSD, there has been a large and notable sway in public opinion on drugs. Most Western Democracies have either legalized or plan on legalizing the recreational use of Marijuana. Many say that the true winner of the November 6th elections were drugs. The State of Oregon has decriminalized *all* drugs, including some fairly hard ones. Almost no political entity now can try to rage a full on war on drugs and expect public support. However, this also doesn’t mean the loosening or eradication of all drug regulations. Policy makers now must develop a sophisticated middle way between full on legalization or a war on drugs( from which drugs previously emerged victorious). Ideally, this would be a great opportunity for our legislators to develop scientific-driven policy. Even if we can’t guarantee that they will do so, we can certainly guarantee that such an environment where this is possible will be fostered by our excellent academic team here in IELMUN 2022. 

The second agenda item we will be discussing this year is anti-pandemic measures. With ever increasing population density, the decreasing space allotted per livestock and melting ice caps freeing ancient pathogenic agents from the permafrost, it is quite possible that our life in isolation is a new normal, rather than a small period in the history of humanity. The establishment of procedures that effectively prevents epidemics from turning into pandemics. As we believe you have already witnessed and understood through your experiences surrounding COVID19, combating pandemics is a global and coordinated effort. Therefore an attempt to combat these epidemics must be done under international consensus. In this committee, we expect you to build international bridges to build health policy.

• THE YUGOSLAV WAR

• PREVENTING CONFLICT BETWEEN THE FORMER MEMBER STATES OF THE USSR

  The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies fought in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001, leading up to and resulting from the breakup of the Yugoslav federation in 1992. Its constituent republics declared independence due to unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries, which fueled the wars. Europe saw the worst bloodshed and the biggest humanitarian tragedies of its recent history like the Srebrenica Massacre and the Siege of Sarajevo. 
  

  On December 25, 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. Representatives from Soviet republics (Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) had already announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. Instead, they declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States. Because the three Baltic republics (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) had already declared their independence from the USSR, only one of its 15 republics, Kazakhstan, remained. The once-mighty Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR.

  As the Post-Soviet States declared their independence one after another, conflicts that had previously been suppressed under the iron fist of the Soviet Union quickly reemerged. Today, there are frozen post-soviet conflicts like Transnistria, Karabakh, Ossetia and Abkhazia are all over the geopolitical landscape. You must now identify these conflicts and work towards preventing these ethnic and political conflicts from unfolding.

  
  

1933: PUBLIC ENEMY NO:1

IELMUN invites you to the 1930s US! This unique JCC committee will take place in the continental United States starting in May of the year 1933, the height of what would later become known as “the Public Enemy Era”, named after the surge in criminal activity as well as fame of individual criminals. With a nation battered by the recent stock market collapse and strict prohibition laws, the time was ripe for a few individuals to capitalise on an overworked police force. The early 1930s in the US were a turbulent time. Crime was rampant and the police was struggling to respond, making it a wonderful opportunity for the industrious mafia mastermind to upset the status quo as much as they desire. Fortunately for the ever-expanding American police apparatus, the augmentation of security forces in the past few decades have allowed the local police forces, completely overwhelmed with this issue on a city and state level, to take the matter to the highest police force in the country: J. Edgar Hoover’s Bureau of Investigation (BOI), which would later become the FBI. But whether the BOI will be enough to stop this crime wave, only time will tell.

This year, our conference will employ a digital crisis tool, the Master of Disaster. Therefore, all delegates need to have electronic devices, preferably Tablets or Laptops, available and present in the days of the conference.

• OPERATION RAGNAROK.

The FJCC, namely Futuristic Joint Crisis Committees, are the simulations of futuristic circumstances or conflicts in which delegates try to form the events in countenance of their party through writing sufficient directives, which are then moderated by a crisis team. FJCC consists of two subcommittees working simultaneously against each other with a view to gain superiority and thus rewrite history. Delegates of FJCC are expected to have optimal foresight and strategical thinking abilities and therefore have corresponding experience.

In this year’s edition of IELMUN, participants of the Futuristic Joint Crisis Committee will be simulating the Operation Ragnarök, a conflict based on the novel of Dr. Tanaka Yoshiki, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which has since been adapted into numerous anime and OVA's. The Galaxy is pitted into two major governments, the autocratic Galactic Empire and the democratic Free Planets Alliance. These states wage a cruel war for 150 years and both experience deep rooted corruption in their systems. With the great reformation under Duke Reinhard von Lohengramm, the much larger Empire now seeks to invade and subdue the "rebels", the free citizens of the Free Planets Alliance.

This year, our conference will employ a digital crisis tool, the Master of Disaster. Therefore, all delegates need to have electronic devices, preferably Tablets or Laptops, available and present in the days of the conference.

• DIE ZUKUNFT DER ATOME: KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ FÜR NUKLEARE ANWENDUNGEN

• NUKLEARE SICHERHEIT: BEMÜHUNGEN FÜR UNTERSTÜTZUNG UND VERSTÄRKUNG

Das zweite Komitee der Generalversammlung Übereinkommen über nukleare Sicherheit „IAEA” (International Atomic Energy Agency) gegründete 1957 Organisation mit Sitz in Wien. Autonone Organisation im Rahmen der UN, bildet zusammen mit den Sonderorganisationen der UN die Gruppe der UN angeschlossenen Organisationen. IAEA unterstützt die Weltweite Förderung und Beschleunigung des Beitrages der Kernenergie zu Frieden, Gesundheit und Wohlstand; Sicherung gegen militärische Ausnutzung der von der IAEA geleisteten Forschungsarbeit, Förderung von Forschung und technischer Ausbildung.

Unter dem ersten Tagesordnungspunkt werden die Delegierten über die Zukunft der Atome diskutieren. Bezugnehmend auf der Anwendung der künstlichen Intelligenz im nuklearen Bereich ist von den Delegierten erwartet, dass Sie sich bei diesem Diskussion entscheiden, wie die Atomkraft betreffs der Natur und der Gesundheit der Menschen behandelt werden soll.

Ein weiteres Thema, das auf der Konferenz erörtert wird, ist die nukleare Sicherheit, insbesonders die Frage, wie sie gewährleistet werden kann. Auf der Konferenz soll geklärt werden, welche Gefahr von den nuklear bewaffneten Ländern der Welt für andere Länder ausgeht und wie mit dieser Problematik umgegangen werden kann. Neben der Gewährleistung der nuklearen Sicherheit ist auch deren Stärkung Gegenstand der Diskussion.

Als IELMUN hoffen wir, dass ihr eine tolle Zeit auf unserer MUN-Konferenz haben werdet!