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MUN

The Model United Nations circuit in
Bangalore, widely regarded as one of the
toughest in the country, has always been
one consisting of dynamic debate and
diplomacy.

The year started off with our very own
Model UN, DNMUN and went onto Model
UN’s including the ones conducted by DPS
South, Jain School, Saint Joseph’s and the
esteemed Harvard International Council.
Now an established and known MUN,
DNMUN returned for the third time with a
great big bang. Bigger, better and bolder
since its inception, DNMUN has proved
that it boasts one of the better MUN’s in
Bangalore. Diplomatically, of course.
Held at a point in time, where the world
was witnessing perhaps its most
challenging phase. DNMUN 2016 was the
epitome and archetype of diplomacy. With
committees like the BRICS and the HCC,
which are rarely seen in the competitive
Bangalore Model UN circuit.
The august assembly included delegates from over 11
DN MUN
schools, numbering over 150. Each of those delegates
participated in definitive debate that would have brought
chills down the spine of Socrates.
DMUN 2016 enjoyed 4 committees each changing the
paradigm of the world, as we know it.
The Historic Crisis Committee went back in time. Way
back in time. All the way to the 1960’s, the height of the
Cold War, discussing the Dhofar rebellion in Oman. The
two conflicting sides to the issue, represented a deeper
purpose of the UN. Debate. A sense of enthralling panic
was created when the world witnessed the time it would
be part of a nuclear war. Soon, it was clear, that was not
what the committee would be debating. With the
characteristic diplomacy that one expects during the
tensest period in the history of the world, the main crux of
the agenda was soon forgotten in the awake of the USSR
declaring war and ultimately destroying the entire world,

as we know it.

The Security Council had the job of tackling something slightly more recent. South Sudan.
Faced with tackling the multi-faceted issue of the South Sudanese civil war crisis, the
delegates were burdened with deciding the future of the newest state in the world. In shock
crisis updates, the delegates mourned the death of the South Sudanese leader by a Chinese
billionaire. The delegates managed to put up two resolutions to decide the future of South
Sudan, both of which as a quintessential idiosyncrasy of the Security Council, failed.