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What
is MUNA? Rotary
Model United Nations Assembly or MUNA is all about building bridges of
goodwill for world peace and understanding in the minds of our youth.
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many leaders have exploited differences of race, religion and nationalism among
their followers simply to consolidate their own power. The
lessons from two great world wars and numerous lesser conflicts should be absorbed
by our youth so that they can avoid repeating the mistakes of history. MUNA
challenges our youth to respect and tolerate differences of race, religion
and nationalism whilst retaining their own individualism and the best of their
national traditions. MUNA
as a concept
arose in North America from the desire of young people to simulate the great debates
of the United Nations Assembly. MUNA
was first conducted in Rotary by Rotary at Winnipeg in Canada, and introduced
to Australia by the Lake Cargelligo Rotary Club in 1980. | m |
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In
1988 Forbes Rotary Club realised the potential for Rotary to spread MUNA more
widely and undertook MUNA 88 - a Rotary Bicentennial Project for Youth. The challenge
issued by Forbes has been taken up by many Rotary districts so that now MUNA has
spread throughout Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and world wide. The
first National MUNA is to be held in the Australian Parliament in August, 1997
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United Nations has given enthusiastic support for the ongoing growth of this very
worthwhile project for youth. In
1989 President Royce Abbey of Melbourne placed MUNA on the World Youth Activities
Committee Agenda for Rotary International, and it was fitting that MUNA was included
as part of the Rotary International Conference conducted in Melbourne in 1993.
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In
June, 1995 a MUNA delegation of five students representing Australia attended
the Rotary/United Nations Presidential MUNA celebrating the 50th Anniversary of
the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco. Rotary
MUNA is now conducted in all five continents of the world and aims to operate
in each of the existing 518 Rotary Districts world wide.
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Ern
Britten, at Blaxland High School MUNA 2000 | Rotary
with over 28,000 Clubs spread across over 154 countries and having over 1.2 million
membership committed to service has a unique potential to bring the message of
world peace and understanding to youth through MUNA which encourages them to communicate
their knowledge and idealism by the shared exhilaration of debating significant
social and political ussues. This
MUNA web site and the MUNA Handbook are designed to assist District Governors
and MUNA Co-ordinators to organise MUNA in their Rotary Districts on a world wide
basis.
It is intended to supplement and translate the Handbook into various languages
where possible by utilising the MUNA Home Page on the World Wide Web on the Internet
address.
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We
invite you to visit this Internet site so your District can register where and
when your MUNA is being conducted and make suggestions. We
also invite you to assist us by translating this MUNA Handbook into the language
of your own country on our MUNA Home Page so that it is accessible to all Rotarians
and Students whom we hope will benefit from the suggested procedures for conducting
Rotary Model United Nations Assemblies. We
also invite you to share your ideas with us for improving our ideas and procedures
as each Club or District can adapt these to suit themselves and their own local
customs.
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Russ Smith
MUNA Co-Ordinator |
Rotary
Club of Lower Blue Mountains, Australia
March, 2008. |
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in Australia is organised by Rotary Clubs and Districts throughtout the region.
MUNA - Model United Nations is a Rotary Youth Initiatve. |
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