MODEL UNITED NATIONS / MODEL WORLD PARLIAMENT

MODEL UN
Terps for Global Solutions is looking to bring MUN back to UMCP. We are looking into a calender of MUN events around the region in which a UMCP team could participate. If you have prior experience in a Model UN simulation, want to learn how you can be a part of one at UMCP, and want to organize a MUN team, send an email to Tony Fleming describing your interest.

MODEL WORLD PARLIAMENT
For those interested in global democracy, the Model World Parliament simulation may interest you. Portraying government representatives to a UN conference on establishing a Global Parliamentary Assembly, participants in this simulation would address the democratic deficit in international decision-making today. Delegates will confront the issues of human rights, democracy and justice as they draft a mock treaty establishing a world parliament. If this interests you, please email Tony Fleming for more information.

The following resources are offered for those interested in participating in the simulation, or in the general concept of a world parliamentary body.

  • "Toward Global Parliament" Richard Falk and Andrew Strauss, Foreign Affairs
  • The Global Accountability Project A study by One World Trust
  • The E-Parliament Initiative
  • "An E-Parliament to Democratize Globalization", by Robert Johansen, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame
  • "A Parliament of Dreams" by Joseph Nye, and rebuttal, "Not a Parliament of Dreams" by Richard Falk and Andrew Strauss in WORLDLINK: The Magazine of the World Economic Forum
  • "Overcoming Practical Difficulties in Creating a World Parliamentary Assembly" by Joseph Schwartzberg, Federalist Debate
  • Summary Report Comité d'action pour un Parlement Mondial (COPAM )
  • "A Parliament for the Planet", by George Mondiot, New Internationalist magazine
  • "International democracy, United Nations reforms and the Role of Global Civil Society", by Lucio Levi, World Federalist Movement
  • "Toward a UN World Parliament", by Robert Sheppard, Asian-Pacific Law Journal
  • International Bill of Rights Project at the University of California
  • Charter 99 Campaign for Global Democracy
  • The Global Democracy Experiment
  • "Demos and Cosmopolis", by Daniele Archibugi, New Left Review
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    More Information? Email UMCP@globalsolutions.org