Scott Bickerton Wed 18 Jul 2012 11:23AM
General Assembly Timetable: Should we be encouraging more caucus time in our debates? And restricting resolutions depending on timing for the event so as not to have too many resolutions in too little time?
Anton Smith Thu 19 Jul 2012 12:47PM
Personally, I don't think I've ever found I've chaired a committee where I've felt like we got through everything or where we managed to deal with every issue properly. I think caucus time is great, but I think it is less useful/necessary at events like NZ Model UN where there is already a draft resolution tabled.
Perhaps if we were looking to be very 'fashion-forward' we could hold more high school conferences that require delegates to write their own resolutions, like at overseas conferences and at our university level events? The only time I've known us to do this for high schoolers was during the plenary committee of the Security Council at NZ Model UN in 2010 and 2011, where the delegates were presented with a crisis and had to come up with their own drafts.
Ultimately, my opinion would be debating fewer resolutions is preferable and allowing full development of the issues presented should be the priority. This is directly related to training of chairs as well - to be able to time a committee well to give everyone a fair go is something that I don't think any of us have mastered...
Apologies for the rant, just thought I'd chip in my 2 cents =]
Scott Bickerton · Wed 18 Jul 2012 4:04AM
This forum will run different discussion points on different topics, whether it be reviewing the current GA Rules of Procedure to adopting a Rules of Procedure for a Security Council at yr9-10 level. I would appreciate if you kept your comments strictly to the topic so as not to overcrowd any discussion with inappropriate but lively banter.
With regards what topics to discuss please indicate what areas of our events, relating to the Rules of Procedure or the accuracy to the UN, you would like to discuss in this forum? If you would also like to discuss topics others have noted then also note that so I get an idea how many people will contribute to each discussion.
Following that, I will make proposals regarding some changes once discussions appear to be slowing down and we can vote on changes at which I will use to make suggestions to National Council. :)