Overview

This committee will function as a traditional crisis committee, with an emphasis on teaching foundational MUN crisis skills. The committee will function on a two-pad note system, where delegates will be given two legal notepads to write their crisis notes on, and the backroom takes one pad per cycle. Each of the two pads should be filled with notes addressed to one external contact, such as a mother, spouse, or powerful relative.​​ The note cycle duration will vary depending on staffing and the speed of committee debate. On average, it will take 30 minutes to process one pad and collect the second. Crisis updates will take place interspersed with committee, likely coinciding with the note-collections.

Topic: Colombia’s Path to Peace

In 1958, President Alberto Lleras Camargo created a commission investigating the most recent nationwide upheaval known as La Violencia. For roughly 10 years the nation of Colombia was torn apart by partisan warfare resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the destruction of cities. Following the assassination of prominent politicians, armed politically aligned factions would be pitted against military and police forces. The path to national reconciliation is one that is not clear cut and met with many obstacles and consideration as those that suffered are all unique in their own personal stories and memories.

This action is believed to be the beginning of Colombia’s path to political stability after a long stretch of instability. Though it also brought the establishment of the National Front, which aims to bridge the gap between the liberal and conservative politicians within the nation. Though this doesn’t mean that everyone’s interests are aligned within Colombia. Everyone will have their own goals and that will unfold as Colombia advances through the late twentieth century. Charmed with a success story of development and opportunity or be another story of a failed government. The committee will have to navigate recent trauma while moving towards the future.