Английская Википедия:Bratislava Model United Nations
Шаблон:Infobox organization The Bratislava Model United Nations (BratMUN) conference is an annual three-day event for high-school Model United Nations students. The conference is organized and held by a diverse organizational team from the National and IB program at Gymnasium Jur Hronec. BratMUN is funded by the Novohradská Foundation and supported financially or product-wise by numerous sponsors throughout the years. It is currently in its 21st installment.[1][2][3]
Committee sessions
BratMUN features a host of committees including the Security Council, Economic and Social Council, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, the World Health Organization, the Human Rights Council, the International Court of Justice, the Disarmament and International Security, the Historical Security Council, etc. Delegates in these committees represent member states of the United Nations, explore approaches to foreign problems and establish resolutions and treaties addressing these issues. BratMUN has also featured a non-UN crisis committee. Some of the topics dealt by the delegates at BratMUN were the abolishment of the death penalty, nuclear disarmament, sea piracy, nuclear energy, the abolishment of sexual harassment at workplaces, or at armed conflicts, future regulations of digital privacy and much more.[1][4][3][5]
Bratislava MUN 2023
The BratMUN 2023 is the latest installment of the BratMUN. It took place from 1. - 3. December 2023 after a 3 year pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic. BratMUN 2023 featuring the motto "Preserving the Past, Honoring the Legacy, Shaping the Future" took an all new stand towards BratMUN. Including new organizing team, new venues and special committee named "Future Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space". BratMUN 2023 attended more than 120 delegates from many countries including Saudi Arabia, Germany, Austria, Norway and Slovakia. After successful BratMUN 2023 the next installation BratMUN 2024 is in works and is set to happen at the end of autumn 2024.
Past venues
Some of the past BratMUN conference premises include:
- Pan-European university[6]
- The Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University
- National Council of the Slovak Republic[7][8]
- The Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Comenius University
- Historic building of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
Notable speakers
- 2001 - Mikuláš Dzurinda (former Prime minister)[9]
- 2012 - Jean-Marie Bruno (French Ambassador), Lucia Žitňanská (ex-Minister of Justice SR), Theodor Sedgwick (American Ambassador), Sonja Wintersberger (Deputy to the Director of UNIS Vienna)
- 2015 - Martin Bútora (Deputy to former president Andrej Kiska)
- 2016 - Lucia Zitnanska (ex-Minister of Justice SR)[10][11]
- 2018 - Miroslav Lajcak (Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs)[12]
- 2023 - Zuzana Čaputová (5th President of Slovakia), Vladimír Bilčík (Member of the European Parliament for Slovakia), Rastislav Káčer (Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs)
Other notable speakers
Eduard Kukan (Minister of foreign affairs SVK), Ronald Weiser (Ambassador for USA in Slovakia), Michael Roberts (British Ambassador)
References
External links
- BratMUN official website
- Gymnasium Jur Hronec official website
- IB Programme on Gymnasium Jur Hronec website
- BratMUN on SoundCloud
