TIMEMUN February 14-16, 2016 The Israel Middle East Model United Nations Conference
Aviva Rosensweig, Director
Kara Mohler & Orit Hai, Assistant Directors
Chapter 1
Welcome
Welcome to The Israel Middle East Model United Nations conference of 2016, held at the Walworth Barbour American International School in Even Yehuda.
Section 1
Greetings from the President of Israel, Mr. Reuven Rivlin Since I will not be able to be present in person, I would like to send my greetings to the participants in the 2016 TIMEMUN conference being held at the American International School in Israel in February 2016. This admirable program, which brings together Jewish and Arab students in Israel and other countries, is taking place during times of tragic conflict accompanied by violence that impacts the lives of us all. Sadly there is no clear end in sight to this tragic conflict. Yet we all bear responsibility for the way we live here, the way we live side by side, Jews and Arabs. Any resolution to this conflict must be founded in the development of mutual trust. Today, more than ever, there is a need for strong leadership on both sides, able to stand before their own communities while maintaining direction even through the most stormy times, leadership that seeks to promote trust and confidence between the parties and that has the courage to strive towards a horizon of true cooperation and peaceful coexistence, leadership that draws strength from the hearts of their own communities for the achievement of this huge task. The TIMEMUN conference can make a valuable contribution to efforts to nurture the seeds of confidence between us, between Arabs and Jews, first and foremost those from within the State of Israel. If we understand that we share common interests, then our educators -- school principals and teachers, both religious and secular, Arabs and Jews, from all over Israel -- will be able to raise here a new generation of children, a new generation of future leaders, who get to know each other, learn to respect each other, and find the way forward to a more harmonious future. I wish you all every success in the meetings of the special committees and programs of TIMEMUN 2016.
With my best wishes,
Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin
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Section 2
TIMEMUN’s Secretary General: Mark Tsoir Dear Delegates, Chairs, Advisors, Administrative Staff, and Distinguished Guests, It is my greatest pleasure and honor to welcome you all to the sixteenth session of The Israel Middle East Model United Nations conference in Even Yehuda, Israel. This conference provides each participating delegate with a unique opportunity to adopt the responsibilities of a world leader and to combat pressing, geopolitical issues. Delegates will be immersed in the high level, fast paced debates, and will leave the conference with many unforgettable moments thanks to the tireless efforts of the entire TIMEMUN team. This year’s TIMEMUN will host a number of controversial, complex issues that even the most intellectual, powerful minds struggle to resolve. Delegates will confront narcoterrorism, lawlessness, and femicide in Latin America, territorial conflicts in the Arctic Circle and Transcaucasia, and refugee overflow in Europe. On the global scene, issues of resource shortages, animal extinction, water scarcity, child labour, drones, chemical warfare, epidemics, war, and xenophobia will be discussed. Delegates will also have the opportunity to rewrite history as they argue over the Yugoslavian dissolution, the 1991 Gulf War, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through diplomacy, debate, and cooperation, delegates will strive to be successful in their search for a solution. International and Israeli students and guests will be present on the WBAIS campus throughout the TIMEMUN conference. I implore you all to reach out and create friendships, to keep an open-mind during every debate, to accept that a delegate may have views entirely polar to your own, to conduct yourselves in a diplomatic manner, and to cooperate with your peers. Cooperation will be vital in the search for an all-encompassing solution that will ensure a stronger, more unified world of tomorrow. The TIMEMUN 2016 team thanks you for attending this year’s conference. We hope that you enjoy it and that you will leave with many treasured memories.
All the best,
Mark Tsoir
Secretary General,TIMEMUN 2016. 3
Section 3
The TIMEMUN Team February 14, 2016 Students, teachers, parents, distinguished guests -- welcome to TIMEMUN 2016. In this, our 16th year, we are pleased to welcome new schools to the TIMEMUN family, greet dear friends, and look forward to the three exhilarating days ahead of us. You, our students from 45 different schools and from many different cultures. are confronting the difficult issues that are debated and discussed in the United Nations itself. We look forward to watching you bring your idealism and intelligence to bear on these thorny problems, and hope that we can learn from you new solutions to old dilemmas. We hope you will not only enjoy all the intellectual challenges of the conference, but also take this unique opportunity to make new friends, and create lifelong memories. Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard for the last year to make TIMEMUN 2016 an exceptional conference. Aviva Rosensweig TIMEMUN 2016 Director
Kara Mohler
Orit Hai
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
TIMEMUN 2016
TIMEMUN 2016
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Chapter 2
Opening Ceremonies & Schedules In this chapter, you will find the schedules for the Opening Ceremonies taking place on Sunday, February 14, the Conference Schedule spanning February 14-16, a list of the Guest Speakers that will be presenting to the various committees.
Section 1
TIMEMUN 2016 Opening Ceremonies
TIMEMUN 2016 – OPENING CEREMONIES Sunday, 14 February 2016
14:30-16:00 • Seating of Delegates and Guests • Procession of Student Ambassadors with Country Flags • Opening Remarks and VIP Welcome: Mike Downs, WBAIS Superintendent • Keynote Speaker: Adi Altschuler, Google Israel • Opening Remarks: Neal Jacover, WBAIS High School Principal • Opening remarks: Aviva Rosensweig, TIMEMUN Director • The Akim Chorus of Hadera: Arkadi Kaufman, conductor
• AIS String quartet • Introduction of Chairs/Officers:
Roni Partouche and Juho Tamas, TIMEMUN UnderSecretaries General • Opening Remarks: Mark Tsoir, TIMEMUN Secretary-General • Dismissal to Committee Session #1: Mark Tsoir, TIMEMUN Secretary-General 6
Section 2
TIMEMUN 2016 Schedule of Events Sunday, February 14
Tuesday, February 16
Registration
13:00 - 14:30
Opening Ceremonies (Gym)
14:30 - 16:00
Committee Session I
16:00 - 18:00
Buses depart to hotels
18:15 - 18:30
Monday, February 15
Buses pick up from hotels
7:30 -7:45
Breakfast snack (Cafeteria)
8:00 - 8:30
Committee Session IV
8:30 - Lunch
Meeting with advisors -- Teachers’ Room
8:30
Lunch session 1
11:30 - 12:00
Lunch session 2
12:15 - 12:45
Buses pick up from hotels
7:30 -7:45
Lunch session 3
13:00 - 13:30
Breakfast snack (Cafeteria)
8:00 - 8:30
Committee session V
Lunch - 15:00
Meeting with advisors -- Teachers’ Room
8:30
Closing Ceremonies (Gym)
15:00 - 16:30
Committee Session II
8:30 - Lunch
Lunch session 1
11:30 - 12:00
Lunch session 2
12:15 - 12:45
Lunch session 3
13:00 - 13:30
Committee session III
Lunch - 18:00
Gala speaker: Amb. Samantha Power
18:30
COMMITTEE LUNCH SCHEDULES
Gala Dinner, Entertainment - 30 minutes after the speech - 21:45 Buses depart to hotels
First:
11:30-12:00
Environment, Historical Security Council, Territorial Disputes, Trade and Development
Second: 12:15-12:45
Regional Cooperation, Security Council,
Special Committee, Disarmament
Third:
13:00-13:30
Conflict Resolution, Crisis Committees,
Human Rights, ECOSOC
22:00 7
Section 3
TIMEMUN 2016: Schedule of Guest Speakers Time
Committee & Location
Speaker
Monday, Feb.15, 9:00
Regional Cooperation (Library)
Europe: Influx of refugees
Professor Yaffa Zilbershats
Chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Israeli Council of Higher Education
Monday, Feb.15, 9:00
Environment (MPR)
Mr. Gidon Bromberg,
EcoPeace Middle East
Monday, Feb. 15, 10:00
Security Council (HS 356)
Attaining and maintaining a stable Syria
Major General (ret.) Yaacov Amidror,
Head of the Israel’s National Security Council (2011- 2013)
Monday, Feb. 15, 11:00
Conflict Resolution (357)
Yael Elad,
Women Wage Peace
Monday, Feb. 15, 12:00
Human Rights (Gym)
Challenges for a democratic country of xenophobia
and intolerance in an age of terrorism
Ms. Monika Iwerson,
Deputy Chief of Mission, German Embassy in Israel
Monday, Feb. 15, 13:00
Historical Security Council (355)
Ambassador Pjer Simunovic of Croatia
Monday, Feb. 15, 14:00
Territorial Disputes (565)
Ambassador Leena-Kaisa Mikkola of Finland
Monday, Feb. 15, 15:00
Special Committee (Gym)
Israel-Palestinian Peace
Amjad Iraqi,
Adalah-Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights
Monday, Feb. 15, 16:00
ECOSOC (Dance Studio) Restaveks: Child slavery in Haiti
Dr. Diddy Mymin-Kahn
Monday, Feb. 15, 16:00
Trade and Development (609)
Mr. Pete Sickle,
former TIMEMUN director
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 9:15
Special Committee (Gym)
Israel-Palestinian Peace
Lital Shemesh,
StandWithUs
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 10:00
Disarmament (566) UN resolutions and weapons of war
Mr. Tomer Treger
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, legal department 8
Chapter 3
Who, what and where In this chapter, you will find a list of the TIMEMUN 2016 committees with the issues they will be debating, an overview of the schools participating in this year’s conference, and a map of the WBAIS campus.
Section 1:
TIMEMUN 2016: List of Issues by Committee Crisis Committees Communist Spring crisis: Delegates will act as historical figures either on the side of Democratic Western Allies or USSR Communist Allies
Regional Cooperation Committee 1. Coping with the influx of refugees in Europe 2. Assembling a response plan to continental epidemics and emergencies
Disarmament Committee 1. Restricting the use of and destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons 2. Regulating military and civilian uses of drones (UAVs)
ECOSOC Committee 1. Reducing international dependence on child labour in the underdeveloped world 2. Achieving fair, systematic food and water distribution on the global scene
Environment Committee 1. Reducing deforestation and protecting the wildlife it endangers 2. Combatting resource depletion through the development of clean energy sources
Historical Security Council 1. Addressing the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2. Charting a course of action in regard to The Gulf War
Security Council 2016 1. Attaining and maintaining a stable Syria 2. Battling narcoterrorism, lawlessness, and corruption in Latin America
Territorial Disputes Committee
1. Negotiating land claims to the territory of the Arctic Circle 2. Achieving peace in Transcaucasia: The Issue of Nagorno-Karabakh
Trade and Development Committee 1. Bridging the global digital divide 2. Achieving a sustainable future for Africa
Special Committee -- the Israeli Palestinian Peace Process
Human Rights Committee 1. Taking preventive measures against acts of femicide 2. Eradicating xenophobia and intolerance in modern societies
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Section 2:
Participating schools and the countries they represent School (Countries)
School (Countries)
School (Countries)
Ahad Ha'am (Brazil, USA-SC HSC)
Hebrew Reali (China-SC HSC, Georgia)
Rosary Sisters (Uruguay-SC, Saudi Arabia)
Alahliya (Indonesia)
Hebrew Uni. HS (Russia-Sc HSC))
Salvatorian Sisters (Canada)
Alnahda Alahlia Atid (Israel, Libya)
Ibn Al-Haitham (Colombia, Denmark)
Seeds of Peace (Nigeria)
Al Qasemi (Switzerland, Turkey)
Ironi Hey (Austria, Ethiopia)
Sharet Netanya (Finland)
Ami Asaf (Venezuela-SC)
Israel-French School (Belgium-HSC, Pakistan)
Sidreh (Jordan)
JAIS (Syria)
St. Joseph (Argentina, New Zealand-SC)
Arab Orthodox College (Iraq, Rep. of Korea)
Jerusalem High School (Cuba-HSC, Iran)
Tabeetha (India-HSC, Mexico)
Atid Lod (France-SC HSC, Azerbaijan)
Jerusalem Sudbury Democratic School (Mali-SC)
Terra Santa (Armenia)
Atid Tira (Peru, Sudan)
Kiriat Sharet Campus (Congo/Zaire-HSC, DPRK)
Tomashin HS Tira (Iceland)
Brotherhood School (Yemen-HSC)
Kiryat Hinuch Amirim (Hungary)
Tichon Hadash Herzliya (Croatia)
Eastern Mediterranean International School
(United Kingdom-Sc HSC, Cambodia)
Lauder-Reut (Angola-SC)
Tichon Hadash Tel Aviv (Romania-HSC)
Galilee Secondary School (Australia, Portugal)
Leo Baeck (Japan-SC, Germany)
WBAIS (Ivory Coast- HSC)
Greek Catholic (Netherlands, Poland)
Nazareth Baptist (Costa Rica, Norway)
WIZO Hadassim (Czech Republic, Senegal-SC)
Gymnasia Herzliya (Ukraine-SC, Lebanon)
Ohel Shem (Zimbabwe-HSC, Italy)
Yeshivat Nachshon (Malaysia)
Hayovel (Egypt-SC)
ProMUNers (Greece)
Anglican International School Jerusalem
(Ecuador-HSC, Kenya)
Individual delegates from WBAIS will also be representing positions in United Arab Emirates, Haiti, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, Spain, and non-voting members of the Artic Circle and Nagorno-Karabach
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Section 3
Map of WBAIS campus Committee Locations Conflict Resolution: 357 (HS) Crisis Central: 351 (HS) Crisis Committees: 350, 352 (HS) Disarmament: 566 (below auditorium) ECOSOC: Dance Studio (above gym) Environment: Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) Historical Security Council: 355 (HS) Human Rights: Gym Regional Cooperation: Library Special Committee: Auditorium Security Council: 356 (HS) Territorial Disputes: 565 (below auditorium) Trade and Development: 609 (near pool)
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Chapter 4
Our Guest Speakers • Ambassador Samantha Power, Gala Dinner speaker • Adi Altschuler, Keynote speaker
• • • • • • • • • • • •
Major General (ret.) Yaacov Amidror Mr. Gidon Bromberg Ms. Yael Elad Mr. Amjad Iraqi Ms. Monika Iwerson Dr. Diddy Mymin Kahn Ambassador Leena Mikkola of Finland Ambassador Pjer Simunovic of Croatia Ms. Lital Shemesh Mr. Pete Sickle Mr. Tomer Treger Professor Yaffa Zilbershats
Section 1
About our guest speakers
Gala Dinner Speaker: Ambassador Samantha Power Ambassador Samantha Power is the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of President Obama’s Cabinet. At the United Nations, Ambassador Power works to advance U.S. interests, promote and defend universal values, and address pressing global challenges to global peace, security, and prosperity. Prior to serving as U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Power served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Staff at the White House. In this role she focused on issues including UN reform; LGBT and women’s rights; the promotion of religious freedom and the protection of religious minorities; human trafficking; and democracy and human rights. Before joining the U.S. government, Ambassador Power was the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, teaching courses on U.S. foreign policy, human rights, and UN reform. She was also the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Ambassador Power is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (2002) and Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (2008), the basis for the award-winning HBO documentary, “Sergio.” She is also the recent co-editor of The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World (2011). Ambassador Power began her career as a journalist, reporting from places such as Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, and contributed regularly to The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker Magazine. Ambassador Power immigrated to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She graduated from Lakeside High School in Atlanta, Georgia and received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is married to Cass Sunstein, with whom she has two young children. 14
Keynote Speaker: Adi Altschuler Adi Altschuler is an educator, a leader and an acclaimed social entrepreneur. She is the founder of "Krembo Wings" youth movement- Israel's first and only movement for youths with and without special needs. She is the founder of "Memories@Home", an alternative gathering on the Holocaust Memorial day. Formerly, she was the Israeli manager of "Google for Education”. In 2002, at the age of 16 she joined the "Lead" ( leadership development program) and inspired by her relationship with Kfir, a boy with cerebal palsy, she established a new youth movement in Israel - "Krembo Wings"- Israel's first and only movement for youths with special needs. The movement has grown and over 4,000 children and youths are active in its 47 branches nationwide. She presided as CEO and chairman until 2009 and later as president until her retirement in 2014. The movement has won numerous awards over the years, including the Presidential Award from Shimon Peres in 2009, the Yigal Alon award in 2010, and was also elected to light an honorary torch in Israel's 60th anniversary at Mount Herzl. Altschuler founded the "Memories@Home" project in 2010. This initiative enables private individuals an alternative way of commemorating the Holocaust memorial day through independent meetings of the community in their own living room. Since the age of 18, Adi has won multiple awards, including: the Tamari award (2005), the Bernstein award for social leadership (2006). In 2008, she was announced as “Israel woman of the year” by the LIONS. In 2013, she received the Rappoport award for leading social change in Israeli society. In 2014, Adi was elected by TIME Magazine as a ‘Next Generation Leader’, and in the same year was chosen to speak at the UN on Social entrepreneurship as a vehicle for growth in developing countries
The Akim Chorus of Hadera
Conductor: Arkadi Kaufman Founded in 1960 by parents of intellectually disabled children, Akim-Hadera’s mission is to develop and implement services and programs that will allow the intellectually disabled to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives within the regular community.
The AIS String Quartet Conductor: Jonathan Minke, Members: Yewon Kwak, Mia Millward, Angela Mohajer, Maria Rosa Saldana 15
Major General (Ret.) Yaacov Amidror Major General Yaacov Amidror served as the National Security Advisor to the P.M of Israel and the Head of the National Security Council from April 2011- November 2013. Maj. Gen. Amidror served with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for 36 years (1966-2002). During his long military career, he held many important positions, among them: Commander of IDF Military Colleges, Military Secretary for the Minister of Defense, and Director of the Intelligence Analysis Division, responsible for National Intelligence Assessment.
Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. FoEME's three co-Directors were honored for their unique environmental peacebuilding efforts by TIME Magazine as Environmental Heroes of 2008, were granted the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2009 and in 2010 awarded both the Euro-Med Award for Dialogue and the Aristotle Onassis Prize for the Protection of the Environment. In 2011, the International Development Committee for COnflict Resolution awarded the organization their Outstanding Leadership Award and the Mount Zion Foundation honored it for significantly contributing to understanding among the three Abrahamic traditions. In 2013, the organization was named one of the top 100 NGOs in the world by the Global Journal. Mr. Bromberg speaks regularly on water, peace and security issues in various forums, among them the United Nations, the US
Since his retirement, he has served as Senior Research Fellow to the
House of Representatives, the European Parliament and the advisory
Institute for Middle East Research in Washington (in 2002) and is now the
meeting to the UN High Level Panel on Security. Mr. Bromberg's return to
Rosshandler Senior Fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies,
Israel was driven by a desire to contribute to peace building efforts in the
and a Distinguished Fellow of JINSA's Gemunder Center. Amidror is the
Middle East. Mr. Bromberg has written extensively on the relationship
author of: Reflections on Army and Security, a book containing several
between water issues and peace. Mr. Bromberg is an attorney by
articles on the subject of military affairs and national security (in Hebrew),
profession, is a fellow of the New Israel Fund and alumni of Yale University's
Intelligence, Theory and Practice, March 2006 (in Hebrew), and A Strategic
World Fellows program.
Prospective, Winning Counterinsurgency War, the Israeli Experience. November 2008 (in English). His articles appear frequently in Israeli and
Yael Elad
international publications.
Yael Elad is CFO of Aleph, a venture capital fund
Gidon Bromberg
located on Rothschild Blvd. in Tel Aviv. In addition to her fund and investment responsibilities she
Gidon Bromberg is the Israeli Director of
holds various Board Seats at Castro and City
EcoPeace / Friends of the Earth Middle East
Pass, to name a few. Prior to joining Aleph Yael
(FoEME). FoEME is a unique regional organization
managed the private equity investment portfolio
that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and
at two of Israel’s largest institutional investors. She has considerable management consulting experience working for to 16
large international corporations in the US, Europe and Africa. Yael
Paz, Bolivia, and Deputy Chief of Mission to the German Embassy in
volunteers in various city-level activities in Tel Aviv and is active in Women
Algiers, Algeria. She has served in her current role since September of
Wage Peace.
2014.
Amjad Iraqi
Dr. Diddy Mymin Kahn
Amjad is a Palestinian citizen of Israel from Tira
Diddy Mymin Kahn is a clinical psychologist and
and has lived between Israel-Palestine, Kenya,
trauma specialist in humanitarian aid and
and Canada. Amjad is a Projects and
intervention. She has over 22 years experience
international Advocacy Coordinator at Adalah -
working in the UK, Hong Kong, Israel, Sierra
The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in
Leone, and Haiti as a psychologist, supervisor,
Israel, where he has worked since 2012. He is
trainer and group facilitator. She has 15 years of
also a writer for +972 Magazine and has
clinical experience in the National Health Service
published articles in various media outlets. Amjad serves as a consultant
in the UK. She co-founded and managed a dynamic community based
and Board Member for several organizations focusing on human rights,
open art studio in London. She has been involved in assisting African
youth empowerment and social media. An AIS alumnus, Amjad has an Hon.
refugees in Tel Aviv for the past 7 years, managing a psychosocial service
B.A. in Peace & Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto, and is
and is currently the founding director of Kuchinate, an arts -based women’s
completing an M.A. in the same subject at Haifa University.
empowerment NGO for refugees surviving trafficking, torture and GBV. Diddy is also a Mental Health and Psycho social professional advisor for the
Ms. Monika Iwerson, Deputy Chief of Mission, German Embassy Tel Aviv
international humanitarian organization IsraAID She focuses on the Ebola response projects in Sierra Leone and Gender Based Violence program in Haiti.
Ms. Iwerson has had a long career in foreign and diplomatic service for Germany. She has served in Berlin in the Federal Foreign Service in roles dealing with Poland in the Political Department,
Ambassador Leena-Kaisa Mikkola of Finland
the Security Council, and as Deputy Head of
Ambassador Mikkola has been Ambassador of
Division for Turkey and EFTA Countries.
Finland to Israel since 2011. She holds a Master
Overseas, Ms. Iwerson has served as Consulate
of Laws and a degree in Political Sciences from
General in Istanbul, Deputy Chief of Mission to the German Embassy in La
the University of Helsinki. Ambassador Mikkola 17
began her career working with the Red Cross of Finland as an Advisor on
Defence, he was appointed Ambassador to Israel. Additionally,
Refugee and Migration issues before entering foreign service and serving
Ambassador Simunovic holds a Masters in War Studies from Kings College,
Finland in a number of capacities as a diplomat. In Helsinki, Ambassador
London, and has received war honors in Croatia and the French Legion of
Mikkola has worked on Refugee Issues in the Human Rights Bureau, on
Honor. He has published on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from Ireland
Nordic Countries in the Political Department, on Cyprus and Turkey in the
to Russian arms trade to Croatia’s NATO membership.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and as Director of the Unit for the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy. Overseas she has held postings at the Finnish Embassies in Budapest, Athens, Canberra, and Brussels. She also earned a Medal of Military Merit in 2004, the Knight’s Cross, First Class, Order of the Lion of Finland in 2008. She is married and has two sons.
Pete Sickle Pete Sickle was the Director of TIMEMUN from 2012-2013, Assistant Director from 2009-2011 and a high school social studies teacher at
Lital Shemesh
WBAIS from 2008-2013. Previously, Pete served
Lital is an Israeli news anchor and journalist. She
Strategic Communications in the Bureau of
served as a combat soldier in the Border Police
Public Affairs and as a Regional Security Officer
Unit. She lectures about Israel for StandWithUs
and Senior Political Advisor on secondment to
and is involved in public diplomacy in a number of
the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
forums and on social media.
has held research positions at the Council on
in the U.S. Department of State as Director of
Foreign Relations and the RAND Corporation,
Ambassador Pjer Simunovic Ambassador Simunovic has had an illustrious career both as a journalist and diplomat. He has served as Ambassador of Croatia to Israel since August of 2012. As a journalist in the 1990s, Ambassador Simunovic served as a Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Croatian Press as well as a producer for the Croatian Section of the BBC. He has served
where he co-authored "Building Moderate Muslim Networks", and worked on foreign policy and national security in the U.S. Senate. Pete holds a BA from Carleton College, an MA from Georgetown University, an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School and for Israel in is currently completing his PhD in political science at George Washington University.
Croatia diplomatically as an analyst, Deputy Head of Mission to France,
Tomer Treger
National Coordinator for NATO from 2004-2008, Director and State
Tomer Treger is a graduate of law and English
Secretary of Defence Policy. Following his term as State Secretary of
literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 18
Since high school, Tomer has been interested and active in international
Prof. Zilbershats has served on several public committees, including the
affairs and was involved i nSeeds of Peace organization in the US and the
Committee for the preparation of citizenship legislator; the Rubinstein
Tevel b'Tzedek ("The Earth – in Justice") organization in
Committee for reviewing Israeli immigration citizenship law, Neeman
Nepal. Tomer represented the Hebrew University in the Jessup International
Committee for drafting the constitution of the State of Israel, and the
Law Moot Court Competition, and in the Red Cross Competition on
Keshev Committee for composing a new bill for equality in the army and
International Humanitarian Law. In January 2016 Tomer returned from five
civilian service.
months in the legal department in Israel's Mission to the United Nations in NY, and now works for the legal department of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem.
She also served as the Deputy President of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and is now the academic adviser of the association, and was a member of the Israel Democracy Institute.
Professor Yaffa Zilbershats Prof. Yaffa Zilbershats is currently serving as the Chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Israeli Council of Higher Education. She served as the Deputy President of Bar-Ilan University since May 2010 until October 2015. She previously served as Dean of the Faculty of
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Law at the University between 2004 –2007. Prof. Zilbershats received her LL.B from BarIlan’s Law Faculty, her LL.M in international legal studies from NYU and her Ph.D from Bar-Ilan. Former President of the Supreme Court Aharon Barak together with Professor Hans Klinghoffer and Professor Aharon Enker supervised her doctoral thesis. Professor Zilbershats teaches and researches various aspects of international law and constitutional law. She has published numerous articles in these fields in peer reviewed journals and has also published a book in English on the Human Right to Citizenship.
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Chapter 5
Rules & Regs
In this chapter, you will find regulations for all students participating in the TIMEMUN conference, as well as Delegate Procedures and Guidelines.
Section 1
TIMEMUN 2016: Regulations for Students These regulations shall be followed by all students participating in
the advisor. Remember – you are representing your school,
the TIMEMUN conference organized by Walworth Barbour
your community.
American International School (WBAIS). Any student who participates in a TIMEMUN conference agrees to obey the regulations. 1. Students shall obey all instructions given to them by their host advisors. This applies to all activities irrespective of location undertaken during the period of the conference. 2. Smoking, other use of tobacco, the drinking of alcohol, the use of drugs are not permitted. 3. Dress code: Business-like attire. Girls should be dressed
6. Neither advisors nor students may negotiate changes to the TIMEMUN regulations for students with respect to curfew, housing arrangements, the use of tobacco, alcohol or drugs or any other rules or provisions set forth by the host school. 7. These regulations apply to all students: both those from the host school, those visiting throughout the conference’s duration, for visiting students, apply also during the journey to, from the site of the event. 8. Violation of these regulations will be reported to the
modestly. Mini-skirts, low cut tops are not acceptable. Boys
responsible TIMEMUN administrator, to the student's High
are not allowed to wear sneakers, trainers or jeans.
School Principal.
4. Payment for accommodation arrangements is the responsibility of each school staying in one of the hotels arranged by WBAIS.
9. Violation of these rules can jeopardize participation in any current or future TIMEMUN activity.
5. Advisors must be in the hotel with the students, and set a curfew hour. Students’ behavior, actions is the responsibility of
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Section 2
Policy Statements and Clauses Writing Policy Statements: Policy statements should describe your country’s stance on an issue in the past,
Writing Clauses: Your chairs write pre-ambulatory clauses, which summarize the issues being
present, future. This is a sample policy statement.
debated.
The People's Republic of Lilliput concerning the issue: What side of a
You must write operative clauses, which are a call for action on the issue in
hard-boiled egg should be cracked?
accordance to your countries policy. Below are examples of operative clauses.
The People's Republic of Lilliput have long endorsed the breaking of the
Example operative clauses (Topic: Preventing AIDS in Africa):
wide end of the egg as the one true way to accomplish the cracking, eventual consumption of the egg. We have fought unswervingly against separatist groups who desecrate the sovereignty of the egg, crack it on its narrow side.
1. Stresses that the commitment to fight AIDS must be expanded at all levels in society; 2. Also stresses the need for involving both health, other sectors,
The People's Republic of Lilliput is a signatory of the 5th Geneva
building partnerships between government, civil society,, of
Convention (concerning pre-ambulatory measures to the devouring of
decentralizing so that the response has an impact across the whole
poultry, spawn), as such, hopes to maintain peace, stability in the region.
continent
The Lilliputians believe that an end to the conflict can be attained through peaceful means. The PRT (People's Republic of Lilliput) plans to hold a peace summit to which all world leaders are invited, in order to resolve the
3. Encourages nations in Africa to: 3.1.
much as is poverty,
conflict. Nevertheless, the PRT maintains the right to use nuclear weapons if the conference reaches an impasse.
Reduce gender inequalities, which are driving the epidemic as
3.2.
Provide the legal framework that will protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS,
(Written by Nir Weintraub, January 2004) 3.3.
Adopt a longer-term, coherent,, integrated HIV prevention policy;
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4. Stresses that public awareness must be reinforced by:
a. Sending experts on AIDS to the most infected countries in order to inform,
discuss the problem with concerned populations,
b.Including in all school programs activities on STDs as well as hygiene, c.Using all media, to inform the public of the dangers,,
the means of prevention, of HIV/AIDS;
48 OMNIPOTENT OPERATIVES (Words you can start your operative clauses with – not limited to these words). The point is that operative clauses need to call for action,, these are active words:
Accepts
Condemns
Directs
Reaffirms
Stresses
Adopts
Confirms
Draws attention to
Recognizes
Suggests
Affirms
Considers
Emphasizes
Regrets
Supports
Appeals
Considers desirable
Encourages
Reiterates
Takes note of
Appreciates
Decides
Endorses
Rejects
Transmits
Approves
Declares
Expresses
Reminds
Urges
Authorizes
Demands
Instructs
Renews
Welcomes
Calls Upon
Deplores
Invites
Repeats
Commends
Designates
Notes
Requests
Concurs
Determines
Proclaims
Resolves
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Section 3
Points and Motions
Requires Second (support from another country)
Determined by:
Point or Motion:
Purpose
Can Interrupt speaker
Point of Information
Ask a question to the speaker
No
No
Speaker / Chair
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry
Question Procedures/Chair
No
No
Chair
Point of Personal Privilege
Complain about volume, room temperature, etc.
Yes (volume only)
Yes (not volume)
Chair
Motion to Move Directly to Voting Procedures
Go directly to vote
No
Yes
Majority Vote
Motion to Extend Debate Time
Extend debate time
No
Yes
Chair
Motion for a roll call vote
Votes tabulated by roll call and not be count
No
Yes
Majority Vote Overruled by Chair
Motion to Divide the House
Abstentions prohibited; all delegates must vote either ‘for’ or ‘against’
No
Yes
Majority Vote
Motion to approach the chair
To ask the chair a question in private
No
No
Chair
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Section 4
Crisis Committee: Procedures, Motions, and Points Procedures:
Lobbying Time Instead of only 1.5 hours in the beginning, lobbying time will occur throughout the conference, triggered by motions of the delegates. Thus, delegates will be able to actively collaborate with fellow delegates on clauses throughout the conference, as new discussions occur. These periods of lobbying time will typically be anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes depending on the decisions of the chairs, delegates.
Clauses While we still encourage delegates to come with pre-written clauses, due to the aforementioned change in lobbying time, it will now be easier for delegates to construct a clause during the actual conference. We recommend that delegates work together during the conference to compose new clauses. Once a delegate has gained enough signatories (differing amount for different committees) he must submit it to the chairs. Then, in order to introduce the clause, the delegate must make a motion (example below) to introduce his clause to the committee. This motion is then voted upon.
How to present a clause in a TIMEMUN crisis committee : 1. Delegates submit written clauses to the chair during Lobbying Time 2. Delegates motion to present their clause, during debate 3. With chair’s discretion, delegates vote on the motion Note: Default speaking time for delegates will be 45 seconds. This can be changed if specifically requested in the motion by the delegate, or decided by the chair. 25
Name of Motion
Motion for Lobbying Time**
Explanation Delegate requests the committee to enter Lobbying Time, where they speak freely, read/sign other delegates’ clauses, compose new clauses.
Example
Requires Time Limit
“Motion to enter lobbying time for a period of 10 minutes” Yes
Motion to Read Policy Statements**
Delegate requests a time to read policy statement. The number of delegates that will present policies will depend on the time limit in the motion.
“Motion for the committee to present policy statements for the duration of 20 minutes”
Motion to Introduce a Clause**
Delegate requests to present a clause to the committee. Note: Once the main submitter of a clause/amendment has finished speaking, debate progresses by default into ‘open debate’ for 10 minutes.
“Motion to introduce France’s clause on the issue of CyberTerrorism ”
Motion to Enter Voting Procedures
Vote on clause, amendment, or resolution.
“Motion to move into voting procedures on the clause”
No
Motion to Extend Debate Time**
Extend debate time on clause, resolution or amendment.
“Motion to extend debate time on the clause by 10 minutes”
Yes
Motion to Extend Lobbying Time**
Extend lobbying time. Note: This can be used if delegates are not finished creating or discussing clauses.
“Motion to extend lobbying time by 5 minutes”
Yes
Motion to Move into Voting Procedures
A vote is conducted on the clause/amendment/ resolution presented.
“Motion to move into voting procedures on the clause.”
No
Motion for a roll call vote
Votes calculated by roll call, not by count.
“Motion for a roll call vote on the clause.”
No
Motion to Divide the House
Abstentions prohibited; all delegates must vote either ‘for’ or ‘against’.
“Motion to divide the house.”
No
Motion to table a clause
Stop debating the presented clause, move it to the bottom of the agenda.
“Motion to table the clause being debated.”
No
Yes
Yes
* All points, motions can be overruled by the Chairs.
**Updated from TIMEMUN 2014
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Name of Point
Determined by:
Purpose
Requires Time Limit
Point of Information
A question directed to the speaker about his/her remarks
Speaker
Yes
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry
A question directed at the Chairs about the procedures of the committee
Chair
Yes
Point of Personal Privilege
Request for personal adjustments to committee environment (volume, temperature, etc.)
Chair
Yes
Point of Order
An urgent remark regarding improper procedure, “out of policy” statements or Chair personal insults.
No
All points and motions can be overruled by the Chairs.
CRISIS FAQ
1. What is a motion?
4. The delegates now have more power to control the flow of the debate.
A motion is used to change the flow of the debate, introduce a new activity.
Delegates vote on the parliamentary procedure, the length of time spent on
Motions can be used to introduce Clauses, Voting Procedures, Lobbying Time,
each activity. Overall, delegates now have the power to affect committee
other parliamentary activities.
activities to make the debate more enjoyable, productive.
Examples of motions:
5. How do you ask delegates points of information?
“Motion to introduce a clause to the committee”
The same procedure will take place. Chairs will ask the delegate at the podium
“Motion to enter lobbying time for a period of 10 minutes”
is he/she is open to any questions. If yes, the Chair will entertain questions from
”Motion to move into voting procedures on the clause”
other delegates based on a combination of willingness and time.
2. How does Lobbying Time change the conference?
Delegates may call for Lobbying Time by motioning for it. Instead of a long Lobbying Time at the beginning of the committee, they will now be dispersed throughout the conference, will take place for 5-15 minutes each.
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Chapter 6
We couldn’t have done it without you... No one can mount a conference like TIMEMUN 2016 without the help of many, many people. Over the next few pages, you will learn who they are...
Section 1
TIMEMUN 2016 Officers, Chairs and Crisis staff Officers
Committee Chairs
Secretary General: Mark Tsoir
Crisis -- Western/Democratic: Adam Penkin and Ariel Gev
Undersecretaries General: Juho Tamas & Roni Partouche
Crisis -- USSR/Communist: Shira Evenchen and Nitay Hershko Disarmament: Nadine Sulimani and Tamer Nusseibeh ECOSOC: Daniela Carney and Itamar Aharoni
Crisis Central Staff Head: Ayman Iraqi, Staff: Matan Horowitz, Gilad Kabessa, Yesinn Kwak, Nabil Rafat
Environment: Lauren Shue and Inbar Lifshitz Historical Security Council: Martynas Bagdonas and Tom Sagiv Human Rights: Alexandra Zelcer and Roy Keinan Regional Cooperation: Yeonsu Jang and Luai al Shuaibi Security Council: Ty Geri and Dania Alami Special Committee: Megan Jorgensen and Tomas Carney Territorial Disputes: Ruben Chocron and Layla Shaaban Trade and Development: Kyle Shishkin and Jamil Danho 29
Section 2:
TIMEMUN 2016: Advisors from participating schools School Ahad Ha’am Alahliya Alnahda Alahlia Ateed Al Qasemi Ami Asaf Anglican Int. Jerusalem Arab Orthodox Atid Lod Atid Tira Brotherhood
Advisor Nita Reguer, Victoria
School
Nitzan
Galilee Secondary School
Fida Dabbah
Greek Catholic
Jihan Asali Reham Abu Asba Ingride Lewis,
Amy Shmulevich
Gymnasia Herzliya
Hayovel
Loubna Dakwar
Hebrew University
Bronia Kabakovitch,
Ibn Al-Haitham
Lucas
Ironi Hey
Urie Ben Israel
Ali Haj Mohammed
Mahmoud Ali-Saleh
Jerusalem Sudbury Rena Greenberg
Democratic School Ricky Ben-Or
Randa Haiek
Kiriat Sharet Campus
Sharlin Rohland
Kiryat Hinuch Amiriam
Tammy Cohen
Ronnie Tabacof,
Barbara Ori
Lauder-Reut Educational Complex
Sharon Fayerberger,
Rotem Gantz
Leo Baeck
Samara Wacks
Nazareth Baptist School
Dania Masarwa
Jerusalem High School
Kristi Karrenbrock
Stefana, Virgilius Teodorescu
Michael Lipiner
Salvatorian Sisters Seeds of Peace
Advisor
Sharet Netanya
Sara Dayan Heidi Paredes, Ihab
Hana Awwad
Samar Sabat,
Sally Ishak
St. Joseph Seminary Tabeetha Terra Santa
Tomashin
Elias Farrah, Rami Hannah
Darren Glick Geries Juma,
Zaher Kardoush
Ranin Qasem,
Nardine Khasckia
Tichon Hadash Herzliya
Micky Zaritsky
Tichon Hadash
Tel Aviv
Taliah Nathanson
WIZO Hadassim
Lubna Karkaby,
Fahed Nasser
Elbedour, Sahar Ahmad
Lina Shaheen,
Denis Tkachuk
Schwartzberg Anna-Lee Rose,
Atalia Weissman, Ella
ProMUNers Rosary Sisters
School
Sidreh
Doreen Kugel
Noa Lazimi, Irit Erez
Dr. Rhea
Advisor
Ohel Shem
Israel French School Denis Charbit JAIS
Eastern Mediterranean International School
Buthaina Bishara,
Alon Sanders
Hebrew Reali
Baraah Abed Elhai
School
Dr. Raquel Shaoul,
Martin Fry, Helen
Lowell Blackman
Advisor
Yeshivat Nachshon
Robin Flam, Monique Vielbig Shmuely
Yaakov Beasley
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Section 3
TIMEMUN 2016 Admin, Photography, Security, Video, IT, and Press
Admin Heads:
Marta Donovalová & Julie de Bont Staff: Bren Beasley, Annette de Bont, Alex Burney, Tatiana Eastin, Forest Evanson, Nadav Gariby, Brooke Hallisey, Yeonjune Jang, Auston Javid,
Zack Kahn, Amirkhon Karimov, Zarina Karimova, Adia Lara-Thein, Sophie Lincoln, Audrey Lindsay, Abby Lipinski, Delaney Marusak, Teague Marusak, Gabriel Mendiuk, Maria Maxwell, Benjamin Nathan, Nina Offut, Noa Perry, Siwar Qasem, Nora Rafat, Alessia Reyes, Liat Ricover, Daniel Sagiv, Maya Shafizadeh, Maya Shalev, Brittani Shappell, Noa Weinzweig, Lasse Wippert, Mateen Yazdani, Ronny Zamir, Kayleigh Zigler
Head of Photography: Turkia Abdelhai Staff: Romi Bibi, Shiraz Levy, Tessa Schmit, Talia Sugarman
Video: the Tech Department IT Consultant: Janik Rabe Press:
Daniela Kalmanovich, Michael Low, HyeJu Park,
Ruthie Hoffman
Heads of Security: Luima Manuel Staff: Isaac Leyne, Angela Mohajer, Tommy Shani, Jacob Zigler
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Section 4
...and very special thanks to: •
Mike Downs, Neal Jacover, and the Board of Directors for their
•
All the teachers whose classrooms we used throughout the TIMEMUN
• • • • • • •
continued encouragement of the MUN program at WBAIS
conference, and whose support we count on Our wonderful guest speakers Margret Ellwanger, for her work with the SIdreh school and her unwavering advocacy of the MUN program at WBAIS Dror Rubin, Faten al Zinati for the Conflict Resolution Program Neville Berman, Maya Giny-Afargan and the AIS business office Ofir Gaziel ,Erez Farage, Yves Mamou and Avi Gvosdin for their help throughout the year and at TIMEMUN 2016 Oren Sagir and the AIS Security staff Ada Renan, for public relations and contact with Ministry of Education
•
Brian Inskeep, Danny Peleg, Gintas Yonushonis and Michael Chernin for
•
the students Ty Geri and Alexandra Zelcer, for their work with the Sidreh
•
Pete Sickle, for advice throughout the year and always being
• • • • • •
tech support
and Hadassim schools, respectively
ready to guest lecture and help out with Special Committee Jonathan Minke and the WBAIS String Quartet Leonie Brickman, for helping us throughout the year Mrs. Fatin Iraqi for her support of the program and work with participating schools Ilana Locker, for keeping the library open for us during the conference Stephanie Rich, the school nurse, for keeping us all healthy Kerry Hen, for supplies and printing
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Roni Partouche
Mark Tsoir
Juho Tamas
Under-Secretary
Secretary
Under-Secretary
General
General
General
Ayman Iraqi Crisis Central
Adam Penkin & Ariel Gev Crisis - Western/Democratic
Shira Evenchen & Nitay Hershko Crisis - USSR/Communist
Nadine Sulimani & Tamer Nusseibeh Disarmament
Daniela Carney & Itamar Aharoni ECOSOC
Lauren Shue & Inbar Lifshitz Environment
Martynas Bagdonas & Tom Sagiv Historical Security Council
Alexandra Zelcer & Roy Keinan Human Rights
Yeonsu Jang & Luai al Shuabi Regional Cooperation
Ruben Chocron & Layla Shaaban Territorial Disputes
Kyle Shishkin & Jamil Dano Trade & Development
Ty Geri and Dania Alami Security Council
Megan Jorgensen & Tomas Carney Special Committee
TIMEMUN 2016 - OFFICERS & CHAIRS - TIMEMUN 2016
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