While other students may spend their time playing video games, we students of politics prefer to change things up a bit. We play a particular type of game, and trust me it is not a laughing matter. With a combination of political dress up, passing notes while the moderator is talking, roleplaying, and of course
maintaining these personas in public, Danish Model United Nations was by far the best MUN simulation I have seen thus far.
This was a mock Security Council summit for the discussion of Iran's Nuclear Program, and the controversy surrounding it. So from the 18th to the 23rd of October I was not an American but a Mexican citizen, sent to the Security Council to stand as a voice for my people. The exception to this, of course, was going to the Iranian Embassy, where I was most assuredly an American!
During the first part of the week we heard lectures from the Iranian ambassador to Denmark, the Israeli representative to Denmark, the Danish former ambassador to Iran, and the UN Office of Disarmament (via video conference). All of these talks were extremely useful in giving us the background information we needed for the game, so with the help of our moderator, a Danish representative to Russia, we kicked off our sessions.
During the three days worth of sessions, my fellow delegates and I made sure that the voice of the United Mexican States was not silent.
Not everything was just work. Sometimes it was a combination of work and play. We would go to dinners, hang out in the evenings together, and even say, take a cruise down the canal with our fellow delegates.
The United Mexican States ended up being one of five countries to co sponsor the only resolution to the issue at hand that ended up being passed by the council by the closure of debate on Saturday afternoon. Yay Mexico!!
That Saturday night we changed our suits for dresses and had a Gala dinner to end the Game.
And that, my dear friends is why politicians are thought to be oh so serious, because
this is just a Game.
Vi Ses!
