Secretary-General Annah Kim Nelson-Feeney bangs a large gavel to close FCMUN V.
The Five College Model United Nations (FCMUN) celebrated its fifth year this year. The fifth year is when we deem a conference to have matured from its early years as the founding class has graduated by now. With this growth in place, the conference is stronger than ever, and we explain why below. Check out the liveblog of the conference!
This guest post was provided by Vanessa Keverenge ’14, Director of Publicity at Five College Model United Nations
The Five College Model United Nations conference will be in its fifth year this year, so here are five reasons you should attend!
5. The keynote speaker our opening ceremonies is Gillian Sorensen, who is currently the Senior Advisor and National Advocate at the United Nations Foundation. She was appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan to serve as Assistant Secretary General for External Relations. She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Women’s Foreign Policy group. She has an amazing wealth of experience in public service and will be available for a Q & A session. This is a benefit of a smaller conference that focuses in depth on delegate reaction to crisis as well as delegate interaction.
Secretary-General Margaret Fitzgerald speaking at Opening Ceremonies
Meet Five College Model United Nations (FCMUN) Secretary-General Margaret Fitzgerald! Margaret is from Mount Holyoke College and she has done an excellent job at organizing this conference. She was also the one to initially reach out to Best Delegate to liveblog this conference and gave us an interesting story to cover including the story of FCMUN itself.
In this interview, she shares many takeaways that smaller schools and newer programs can learn, especially if your program wants to start its own conference: the Five College model and how smaller schools can pool resources together, the mentality to not give up and not rush into things when trying to organize your first conference, and the advantages of simulating smaller committees.
The Five College Model UN (FCMUN) conference is purposely small and it has its benefits: quicker debate, more dynamic crises, and the ability to get to know your chairs and fellow delegates in a fun setting. Here is a video and more photos of delegates in action!
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The German secret service capture U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Yalta Conference:
UNFCCC delegates have fun while debating in unmoderated caucus
