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This is the University of Nottingham's United Nations Society

15/08/2022

Be sure to join our new discord!

Check out the UN society community on Discord - hang out with 9 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

31/03/2022

Our AGM is taking place tonight, at 6:30pm, in A41, the Clive Granger building. All the information about the candidates is available in the guide, which has been emailed to members, and is in the Facebook group. Only members can vote (remember your pen!), but anyone can attend!

09/03/2022

Today is the last day to buy membership if you want to vote in our AGM, which will take place on the 31st of March.
Full details available via our linktree- https://linktr.ee/UNSoc

24/09/2020

The new academic year is starting and it's a great time to get involved in our society!

If you're wondering what our society is about, our General-Secretary Amir Khan spoke to the University of Nottingham's Impact Magazine about the society, our NottsMUN conference and how to get involved.

Impact's News Editor, Lauren McGaun, caught up with the UN Society's Gen Sec, Amir Khan, to find out more about the United Nations Society and their plans to host their annual conference in November in a Covid-secure way.

26/08/2020

We are pleased to announce our final committee, an exciting newcomer to the MUN circuit the Critical Situation:
In an innovative new committee format of everything that real life, high stakes negotiation and diplomacy can be, the critical situation committee is a combination of negotiations, press, and crisis. Great for newcomers to special committees, or veterans looking for new twists and challenging mechanics, the critical situation explores the different angles of a fictional hostage situation.

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The Society

Who are We?

We are effectively a United Nations Youth branch in the university. We are the university's de facto hub for any student looking for an international experience at uni.

Imagine this: you're seated at a table and everyone's talking about everything, from the last Eurovision to the ongoing crisis in Syria, to their own experiences growing up in the world. It's a mix of languages, of nationalities, of courses. Everyone speaks to everyone. And in one night, you make ten new friends.

That's us in a nutshell. If that sounds good to you, you're welcome to join in! We are always trying to diversify our activities. In addition to our weekly MUN sessions and our very own conference, we attend other MUN conferences, but that is only part of what we do. Many joint events with other societies will be held during the year and we are introducing our very own Speakers' Programme with experts on topics as different as Nuclear proliferation and Boko Haram coming to talk to our members.

What is MUN?

Model United Nations (MUN) is a simulation of the real United Nations, where students take on the role of delegates representing a country and debate topics ranging from economic and social issues to political and environmental ones from their allocated country's standpoint. It promotes greater understanding of international relations, politics and global issues. Over 400,000 students take part in MUN conferences annually worldwide. MUN helps you sharpen your debating and negotiating skills to a great extent.

You might think this only involves writing papers and doing research. Wrong! MUNs are a comprehensive activity and boast a very strong social component to it.The committee sessions themselves are great fun too - you'll hear great big speeches, funny delegates cracking jokes and a lot of fast-paced negotiating. You meet lots and lots of people from all over the world, share ideas and make friends. In the process you'll get to visit new places too.

The Society and MUN:

Alongside our many other activities, we're also one of the most active award-winning MUN societies in the UK. We hold training sessions every week for interested members. We send teams of students to conferences outside the uni - there's a conference for anyone, even if you're inexperienced or on a tight budget!

Lastly, we host our very own annual conference, Nottsmun ,within the university, and we're one of the largest in the UK - a few hundred people take part.

Why Join Us?

Learn about Model UN from the best. L We hold no-pressure practice sessions every week to walk you through everything, and we hang out after. Everyone's welcome, whether you're familiar with MUN or not!

Pick up transferable skills. MUNs give you an all-in-one package of transferable skills. Learning to do research on tough international issues. You'll learn some confidence and give great speeches. negotiating and winning people over to your ideas and a whole utility belt's worth of social skills, too.

Great excuses to travel. Can't find a reason to travel on the weekends? MUNs are a great way to see different cities in the UK - Manchester, Oxford, Leeds, and abroad!

Not interested in MUN? No problem. We have plenty of other great events for you - International-themed socials of all types, UN-related fun and learning, and a way to make as many friends as you want, from as many countries as you want. A Speakers' Programme and other talks, joint events, socials - we'll do it all.

So get involved in this ever growing and ever enthusiastic society!