The Mingle in the Rotunda
The Host Team and SASSE International Committee welcomes everybody for a great first night at the conference to become more acquainted to people with same and different interests for UN.
“No democracy, no rule of law. That’s the recipe for conflict.”
Hans Correll, his honoured former Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs, begins by stressing critics towards UN as a constitution and the Security Council. He is amazed by the hard work that the worlds MUN’s put together and promotes the campaign “Stop Illegitimate vetoes” which is a movement for a functioning UN. The top 5 most powerful countries have taken advantage of their Veto rights through history. He hopes everyone shall read through it and encourages us to send it forward. Link: http://stopillegitimatevetoes.org
Jens Pettersson, the deputy secretary general of the Swedish UN Foundation follows up by giving a word to the Rhohingya munks in Burma and the Congo Wars as a valuable lesson. He hopes that every topic will be a fun challenge for the councils in negotiating peace and responsibility to protect.
Our honoured Secretary General Hannes Tordengren inaugurates the formal ceremony and welcomes all students to participate as delegates in the UN simulation.
Our 4th guestspeaker Anders Lidén served 6 years as a Permanent Swedish representant in the UN between 2004-2010 and is a member in the UNCHF The roll of Security Council has great historical importance to the UN. It’s the strongest organ in the UN where the most powerful countries are gathered to maintain peace. There are certain doubts in this matter, for example why India as the worlds largest democracy with nearly a billion people in population is not a permanent member of the Council. After all his work he’s still not fully convinced yet that all conflicts shall be solved by the UN and the G20 members.
Lidén gives a very New York perspective of the UN: “Meet China in the morning, coffee with Pakistan and late chat with the Americans.”
There were no authorization from the Security Council in the 2003 Iraq War where US committed violation of international law. This affected the trustworthiness of EUs mandate.
There is no further information about the rumour with Reinfeldt becoming the next UN secretary general and when we ask him he shines up and says that it would be an honourable position for Sweden.
Third Guestspeaker. Thomas Sommerer is an expert on state actors in global governance and holds a PhD in political Science from the University of Konstanz. Today he talks about transnational actors in global governance. Many NGOs play an important role at the World Political Arena. Organizations such as the Red Cross have provided humanitarian help in conflicts as well as Greenpeace who fights for a better environment, and ILO against child labour. Most of the work within this field is covered by the Economic and Social Council. Thomas presents charts showing how we as individuals are affected by these stakeholders. Trends show how society is moving from a normalized dimension to become more multilateral in the future. In countries where freedom of press isn’t fundamental there’s a stronger need for change in peoples opinion. In China most of the West is clashing with the East through Business Life and an equal responsibility for keeping stable economic growth and production.
After the NSA scandal in 2013 the world took a sharper check against America and has glorified Edward Snowden as a modern cult figure.
As an observer in the UN the councils have to agree on permitting these actors to participate.
SMUN is opening the doors for 194 delegates from around the world to kick-off opening day. Registration is currently underway and will be followed by our opening ceremony at 19.00. This year will mark the 10th anniversary for SMUN - the largest model UN conference in Scandinavia!
Each year, students from all over the globe studying an array of disciplines flock to Stockholm to take part in SMUN's simulation of a real United Nations conference and aims to emulate the real UN as accurately as possible.
Delegates at this years conference represent schools from around the world including Mannheim University, Sciences Po Paris, Howard Payne University Texas, St. Gallen University, and many more.
We welcome all delegates to the Atrium at the Stockholm School of Economics for registration followed by our opening ceremony at 19.00.
We look forward to meeting all of you this afternoon!
The Host Team and SASSE International Committee welcomes everybody for a great first night at the conference to become more acquainted to people with same and different interests for UN.
“No democracy, no rule of law. That’s the recipe for conflict.”
Hans Correll, his honoured former Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs, begins by stressing critics towards UN as a constitution and the Security Council. He is amazed by the hard work that the worlds MUN’s put together and promotes the campaign “Stop Illegitimate vetoes” which is a movement for a functioning UN. The top 5 most powerful countries have taken advantage of their Veto rights through history. He hopes everyone shall read through it and encourages us to send it forward. Link: http://stopillegitimatevetoes.org
Jens Pettersson, the deputy secretary general of the Swedish UN Foundation follows up by giving a word to the Rhohingya munks in Burma and the Congo Wars as a valuable lesson. He hopes that every topic will be a fun challenge for the councils in negotiating peace and responsibility to protect.
Our honoured Secretary General Hannes Tordengren inaugurates the formal ceremony and welcomes all students to participate as delegates in the UN simulation.
Our 4th guestspeaker Anders Lidén served 6 years as a Permanent Swedish representant in the UN between 2004-2010 and is a member in the UNCHF The roll of Security Council has great historical importance to the UN. It’s the strongest organ in the UN where the most powerful countries are gathered to maintain peace. There are certain doubts in this matter, for example why India as the worlds largest democracy with nearly a billion people in population is not a permanent member of the Council. After all his work he’s still not fully convinced yet that all conflicts shall be solved by the UN and the G20 members.
Lidén gives a very New York perspective of the UN: “Meet China in the morning, coffee with Pakistan and late chat with the Americans.”
There were no authorization from the Security Council in the 2003 Iraq War where US committed violation of international law. This affected the trustworthiness of EUs mandate.
There is no further information about the rumour with Reinfeldt becoming the next UN secretary general and when we ask him he shines up and says that it would be an honourable position for Sweden.
Third Guestspeaker. Thomas Sommerer is an expert on state actors in global governance and holds a PhD in political Science from the University of Konstanz. Today he talks about transnational actors in global governance. Many NGOs play an important role at the World Political Arena. Organizations such as the Red Cross have provided humanitarian help in conflicts as well as Greenpeace who fights for a better environment, and ILO against child labour. Most of the work within this field is covered by the Economic and Social Council. Thomas presents charts showing how we as individuals are affected by these stakeholders. Trends show how society is moving from a normalized dimension to become more multilateral in the future. In countries where freedom of press isn’t fundamental there’s a stronger need for change in peoples opinion. In China most of the West is clashing with the East through Business Life and an equal responsibility for keeping stable economic growth and production.
After the NSA scandal in 2013 the world took a sharper check against America and has glorified Edward Snowden as a modern cult figure.
As an observer in the UN the councils have to agree on permitting these actors to participate.
SMUN is opening the doors for 194 delegates from around the world to kick-off opening day. Registration is currently underway and will be followed by our opening ceremony at 19.00. This year will mark the 10th anniversary for SMUN - the largest model UN conference in Scandinavia!
Each year, students from all over the globe studying an array of disciplines flock to Stockholm to take part in SMUN's simulation of a real United Nations conference and aims to emulate the real UN as accurately as possible.
Delegates at this years conference represent schools from around the world including Mannheim University, Sciences Po Paris, Howard Payne University Texas, St. Gallen University, and many more.
We welcome all delegates to the Atrium at the Stockholm School of Economics for registration followed by our opening ceremony at 19.00.
We look forward to meeting all of you this afternoon!