Lea Jaoude

Champville Model United Nations

Model United Nations is an international program present in almost every country around the world, a program built on training students from Middle to High School how to listen, speak, walk, act and interact with one another diplomatically. The objective from this global awareness-building exercise is to sensitize the students on the need to build a global partnership for development, making them better world citizens. The Model United Nations in Champville is a five-year teaching program: it enables students from Cinquième to Terminale to participate in MUN conferences around the world. It is unique to the Collège Mariste Champville in its management and system. Program Officers and Training Alumni work together ceaselessly to provide the best experience and training possible to our delegates. The activity involves and teaches researching, public speaking, debating, and writing skills, in addition to critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership abilities. It increases the cognition of students about the developmental issues that impact humanity, such as the global problems of poverty and hunger, the proliferation of illiteracy worldwide, gender discrimination, child mortality, maternal mortality, the HIV/AIDS, malaria and other major diseases and the loss of environmental resources. The objective from this global awareness-building exercise is to sensitise the students on the need to build a global partnership for development. Hence, they become better world citizens. The objective is to teach the future citizens of a war-torn society how to reduce communal prejudices and build confidence-building measures, crucial for the sustainability of civic peace. There are over 200 annual high school conferences worldwide.