Model UN training for school students
Cultivating the next generation of diplomats.
We train school delegates in the craft of Model United Nations — rules of procedure, primary-source research, and the patience that real negotiation asks for.
Our mission
Diplomacy is a practised skill, not an inherited one. We exist so that a delegate's first committee session is never their first time reading a resolution, holding the floor, or being told they are out of order.
Our training sessions are for school students, and no conference experience is expected.
We keep the work deliberately unglamorous. Delegates learn to cite a source properly, to write an operative clause that would survive a vote, and to yield the floor gracefully. The training is the point.
How the training runs
Four stages, in order
Every session sits somewhere on this arc. Delegates rarely skip a stage — the later ones stop working when an earlier one is missing.
01
Research
Reading a country into being: its votes, its treaties, its constraints. Delegates learn to work from primary sources and to cite them.
02
Procedure
Motions, points, yields, and the difference between a moderated and unmoderated caucus — drilled until the rules stop being an obstacle.
03
Negotiation
Building a bloc, conceding the right clause, and holding a red line — the part a rulebook doesn't teach.
04
Conference
Putting it together under committee conditions: holding the floor, drafting with a bloc, and debriefing what actually happened.
Current leadership
This year's circle
The people who run the programme and answer for it.
Evan Xavier
Secretary-General
Open to school students
Training sessions are free, and no prior conference experience is expected.