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Crisis committees formed at Model UN
by Greta Moran
Staff writer
News | 11/4/08
Posted online at 3:03 AM EST on 11/4/08
Six members of the Brandeis International Relations Council, a group devoted to the practice and study of politics, international relations, rhetorical speech and competitive debate, participated in the thirty-first annual Security Council Simulation at Yale University.
The students spent three days playing the role of foreign diplomats, debating issues of international security and voting on a peacekeeping solution in the same manner in which the United Nations Security Council functions, explained tournament director Alexandra Pizzi '10.
Each student was previously assigned a foreign diplomat to represent throughout the conference. John Orr '12 represented Amnon Cohen in the Israeli Knesset committee. Samuel Icazy represented Anthony Cardinal Okogie, a diplomat from Nigeria, in the Conclave of the College of Cardinals. Leah Bloom '10 represented Hadash Doy Khenin in the Israeli Knesset committee. Adriel Orozco '10 represented Fritz Karl Wollwebter, the Minster of State Security in East Germany in 1953 Berlin. John Zhang '12 represented Gabon in the African Union. Alexandra Pizzi '10 represented Romania in the Council of the European Union.
The students were informed of the multiple committees they were to serve on, which acted as a simulated version of an international organization. Each student attended two committees per day, which lasted for three to four hours each, depending on how long it took the committee to arrive at a solution to a crisis of international threat, explained Orr.
"You are placed in these committees, and [while] pretending to be these countries you get to see how the world interacts and how the world of diplomacy actually works. BIRC allows you study politics more in a pseudorealist fashion," said Orozco, treasurer of BIRC.
BIRC has won numerous awards in the fall season thus far, including Best Delegation at the Boston Area Model United Nations conference held this fall at Boston University Oct. 2 to 5. Several other notable awards were given at the Boston University conference: Pizzi won Best Delegate in the African Union Peace and Security Council. Kim Falana '12 received an honorable mention in the AIDS Education Global Information System Group. Saghi Sofinzon '11 received an honorable mention in Interpol, and Benjamin Gorelick '11 received an Outstanding Delegate award in the Egyptian Cabinet. In addition, Nick Petrocchi '12 and Youness Tihm '10 won a Honorable Double Delegation at a conference at Georgetown University held this fall.
The students spent three days playing the role of foreign diplomats, debating issues of international security and voting on a peacekeeping solution in the same manner in which the United Nations Security Council functions, explained tournament director Alexandra Pizzi '10.
Each student was previously assigned a foreign diplomat to represent throughout the conference. John Orr '12 represented Amnon Cohen in the Israeli Knesset committee. Samuel Icazy represented Anthony Cardinal Okogie, a diplomat from Nigeria, in the Conclave of the College of Cardinals. Leah Bloom '10 represented Hadash Doy Khenin in the Israeli Knesset committee. Adriel Orozco '10 represented Fritz Karl Wollwebter, the Minster of State Security in East Germany in 1953 Berlin. John Zhang '12 represented Gabon in the African Union. Alexandra Pizzi '10 represented Romania in the Council of the European Union.
The students were informed of the multiple committees they were to serve on, which acted as a simulated version of an international organization. Each student attended two committees per day, which lasted for three to four hours each, depending on how long it took the committee to arrive at a solution to a crisis of international threat, explained Orr.
"You are placed in these committees, and [while] pretending to be these countries you get to see how the world interacts and how the world of diplomacy actually works. BIRC allows you study politics more in a pseudorealist fashion," said Orozco, treasurer of BIRC.
BIRC has won numerous awards in the fall season thus far, including Best Delegation at the Boston Area Model United Nations conference held this fall at Boston University Oct. 2 to 5. Several other notable awards were given at the Boston University conference: Pizzi won Best Delegate in the African Union Peace and Security Council. Kim Falana '12 received an honorable mention in the AIDS Education Global Information System Group. Saghi Sofinzon '11 received an honorable mention in Interpol, and Benjamin Gorelick '11 received an Outstanding Delegate award in the Egyptian Cabinet. In addition, Nick Petrocchi '12 and Youness Tihm '10 won a Honorable Double Delegation at a conference at Georgetown University held this fall.
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