Crisis

The smallest and most innovative of our committees are the Crisis committees. Each committee has a team of MSUMUN staffers creating scenarios that the delegates must then respond to. More experienced delegates tend to gravitate towards the crises.

United Nations Security Council

The UN Security Council of 2017 is little different from that of today, yet the world of 2017 demands that new challenges be addressed.  New alliances and emerging powers both reinforce and destabilize the world order, with an Indo-American entente pitted against a Chinese hegemony in what is less a cold war than a hot peace.  A resurgent Russia threatens to dominate Central Asia and looms large even in the former Warsaw Pact, and the EU, traditionally a voice of diplomacy in troubled times, is paralyzed by internal disagreement and unable to act even in its own backyard.  But as the Great Powers engage in a second Scramble for Africa, events in the Middle East could prove to be most dangerous of all, affirming once again the old maxim: “No plan long survives contact with the enemy.”

United States National Security Council

The United States National Security Council is the chief organ responsible for aiding the American government in the development of policy critical to maintaining national security. The council will address issues ranging from domestic terrorist threats to armed strife and nuclear proliferation abroad. In your role as a member of this council, you will be providing the President of the United States with invaluable information, expertise and advice as they seek to develop policy that best serves the interests of domestic and international security

Food & Agriculture Organization

Today much of the focus of the international community is directed at the global financial crisis that has spread across the world. Often lost in the din is an unsung crisis that affects billions of people around the globe and means far more than dollars and euros: the global food crisis. This crisis is worsening by the day, but we are not powerless to help. This special session of the Food and Agriculture Organization is in response to many recent events of the previous years, and potential events of the future, and it will be up to delegates to try to not only alleviate acute hunger around the world, but also hopefully aid in ending chronic hunger through creative and ingenious methods, testing delegate’s skills of debate as well as their imaginations.

House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Un-American Activities Committee is a standing committee, which provides an unequivocally important service to this great nation. The members of this committee are responsible for protecting one of the dearest assets that American society has today –American culture. We must shift our focus from concern over a threat of Communism in the United States to specifically targeting the Communists that we know for a fact exist within our society. Members will investigate the Screen Writer’s Guild, the Motion Picture Association of America, and other vehicles of cultural production that could be harboring Communists.  The production of pro-Communist propaganda must be stopped before it taints the minds of ordinary, patriotic American citizens.  This committee has the ability to initiate legislation that could possibly save this country from a dangerous cultural takeover, which could have serious ramifications for the very fate of this nation’s future.

Double Cross: British Counter-Intelligence, 1941

Delegates will assume the role of members of the Double Cross Committee, an interdepartmental wartime effort of the British intelligence departments and military services to “flip” and “run” German spies in Great Britain for Allied benefit. An administrative disaster, the committee was an entanglement of different and opposing departmental interests, overlapping jurisdictions, and personality conflict. By feeding real and false intelligence to the enemy, the Committee was able to efficiently confuse and disorder German operations without firing a single bullet or dropping a single bomb.