More than 200 students from 15 different countries gathered at Stephen Perse Cambridge recently to take part in the fifth Cambridge Model United Nations conference (CamMUN).
CamMUN 2024, which was created and hosted by sixth form students at the school, drew 238 delegates from as far away as Japan, Pakistan and Turkey.
The three-day conference saw students discuss the most pressing topics facing global leaders today.
Alison Daniels, CamMUN conference coordinator, said: “Seeing young people passionately engage with some of the issues of the real world, and hearing them discuss solutions and ideas to some of the world’s challenges, was inspiring.
“It is a privilege to open our school to host this valuable experience for our students, and we are confident next year’s conference will be even better.”
Working from the perspective of independent nation states, delegates were tasked to address and pass resolutions around the core theme of ‘mitigating growing barriers to navigate a fractured diplomatic climate’. Groups then worked through simulated scenarios in order to find a productive and collaborative
path to peace.
On the agenda this year were various hypothetical scenarios including a US-China trade war, resourcing space exploration and the legalities of recreational drug use.
The guest speaker was John Beyer, who was the UK’s ambassador to Moldova from 2006 to 2009 and is an adviser on European studies at St Anthony’s College, Oxford.
