Volmun III General Assembly Parliamentary Procedure Guide

VolMUN III General Assembly Parliamentary Procedure Guide

Each committee will control 20 minutes of debate total.
A five minute author’s panel will be granted for sponsors of resolutions
The standard speaker’s time will be 1 minute unless amended
Amendments: friendly amendments will be accepted and adopted.
Amendments: unfriendly amendments will be debated using a 2 pro/2con debate followed by directly moving into previous question.
Technology policy: Delegates will be allowed to use computers to view the docket online. If technology causes disruptions or becomes a distraction we will ask that they be put up.
Any unmoderated caucus will be ruled dilatory.

CSTD

Topic: The role of science and technology in the post-conflict rebuilding process

Sponsors: France, United States of America, United Kingdom

Signatories: Switzerland, Sweden, India, Senegal, Japan, Germany, New Zealand

The General Assembly,

Noting with satisfaction that, since the end of the Cold War, around a hundred violent conflicts have come to an end worldwide due to purposeful intervention from world powers,

Acknowledging the struggle post-conflict and least developed nations (LDCs) will have in completing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030,
Noting that with the assistance of technology, the struggle would greatly be reduced,

Observing the fact that each conflict and therefore each post-conflict rebuilding process is unique due to the geographic, political, and social contexts of the conflict, yet,

Emphasizing that there are universal standards of peace and order that can be catalyze through science and technology in every remedy situation:

Defines the term “post-conflict country”, in regards of usage within the CSTD, to be a nation in which conflict has occurred, the conflict is resolved, and as result of said conflict, the food security, environmental efficiency, civilian health, and infrastructure is unable to provide aptly for its citizens;
The hierarchy of these needs is to be determined by the country receiving help, as they are most familiar with their situation and the urgency of their needs;
Designates world powers to assume the leadership role in addressing immediate post-conflict issues of safety and peace, as well as realizing solutions to broader ideals of social empowerment and environmental health in the near future;

The specific course of action and goals of the rebuilding process, both short and long term, are to be negotiated only by the nation(s) giving help and nation receiving help, while the budget for remedy steps and initiatives is to be negotiated by only the nation(s) giving help and the United Nations;
The course of action for recovery is to be determined in full before the budget comes into play to define the boundaries of aspects of recovery help;

b. Immediate post conflict issues, such as food shortages, political unrest, and remaining violence, are to be addressed before plans to meet long term goals of social empowerment and environmental health are drafted;

Endorses the creation of a Global Technology Share Initiative (GTSI);
It would be a subcommittee of EcoSoc;
This would be a collaborative initiative with the intent on linking willing post-conflict countries who seek guidance in the research and development of new technology, the implementation of effective technology, the buying and selling of patents, to other member states;
Technology shared, or money given, should not include technology that has a possibility to pose a threat to international peace and security which includes, but is not limited to:
Nuclear weapons
The developed nations would assist by aiding monetarily, with supplies, or with willing workers;
This may include aid used in the case of establishing a waste management system, a potable water system, and other basic necessities;
As part of this initiative, there would be a GTSI board composed of members of partaking countries, as well as non members of the partaking countries;
In order to be linked, the member states would apply listing abilities and preferences;
Post-conflict countries or LDCs would apply listing needs and preferences regarding country choice and/or resources needed;
The developed nations would submit an application regarding resources they could supply and possibly country/region preferences;
These applications can be submitted via government agency, or by a petition requiring the backing of another government agency, and would be reviewed by the aforementioned GTSI board;
The results of these projects would be reported back yearly to GTSI;
If a substantial goal has been reached upon review, and member states can become independently supporting of their project, support may be retracted in various stages;
These stages would first include a slow withdrawal of materials/supplies, followed by a combination of withdrawal of monetary assistance and workers;
Workers and monetary assistance may be continued outside of the GTSI deal, if desired;
If, at any time before or after a report is due, a party feels its funds, supplies, or other services are being delegated improperly, the GTSI will follow an investigation lead by the country’s officials;
Have resolved that world powers will lend recovery resources if these demands are met by each country receiving help,
Each country must pledge to consider the merits of a more democratized form of government,
In the instance that a country receives educational aid, the aid provided is strongly recommend to be placed into programs that equally benefit both genders;
Reminds that a military presence should only be implemented over a step of the rebuilding process if the country receiving help deems it a necessary precautionary measure against outbreaks of violence;
This presence is entirely nonviolent and will be used to mitigate possible conflict between inhabitants of the receiving nation and those giving aid as a result of religious or social norms;
In addition to this, the presence will serve as a way for the more developed country to oversee the rebuilding process;
This presence could come from either the country giving or the country receiving help, based on the preference of the country receiving help;
If this presence comes from the country giving help, it would be in no way a measure to propagate control over the country receiving help or a loophole through which corruption could leak
To prevent the country giving help from taking advantage of the country receiving help, through such means as demanding special trade privileges or resources in exchange for rebuilding money and help, GTSI will keep close records of all interstate aid.
Stresses that this board is to be seen as a link between willing developed nations and post-conflict countries, not as a middleman to elongate the process of bureaucracy.

DISEC

Topic: Mitigating political influence of terrorist cells on impoverished areas of Africa

Sponsors: Bolivia, México

Signatories: Federation of Russia, Iran, South Africa

Disarmament and International Security Council,

Recognizing the threat of terrorist cells on regions in Northern, Western, Eastern, and Central Africa,

Acknowledges that terrorism is an abstract concept, rather difficult to define as a generalized idea,

Recalling previous efforts to give stability to governments in the Sahel region and mitigate the influence of terrorists upon them,

Reaffirming the fact that previous interventionist policies in the region have lead to unnecessary destabilization, especially regarding the overthrowing of Libya’s government, which caused a proliferation of arms and fighters into the region,

Stressing against military intervention and other interventionist policies previously attempted in regions of Africa,

Recalling the effectiveness of direct constitutional reforms of affected governments, and how they can avoid the consequences of interventionist policies,

Remembering the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel, a plan strengthening the commitment to aid the Sahel region through consensual aid,

Believes that a council comprised of representatives of affected African governments be established under the moderation of DiSec, who would compile a list of recognized African terrorist groups based on the following criteria:
Atrocities performed by the organization and the purpose of the atrocity,
The effect on the populous and government of the country,
The past activity of the terrorist cell;
Advocates the mitigation of military intervention within affected regions of Africa, and suggests taking the following actions:
Steady withdrawing of member states’ military forces to ease tensions with terrorist cells in the region,
Individuals and small military groups who fully integrate into the receiving country’s military are not affected,
Attempting to increase negotiations with aforementioned terrorist groups,
i. Negotiations will be considered based on the willingness of terrorist organizations to provide a representative or leader to negotiate with;
Allowal of the UN peacekeepers to assist in training of local forces under a consensual agreement.
Allows military intervention within the region if the following guidelines are met:
Member states withdraw forces after 60 days, unless an extension is agreed upon by both occupier and occupied nations,
Peaceful negotiations have been attempted and failed or the terrorist group refused negotiations,
Urgesmember states to decrease outside intervention within the region, especially regarding policies involved in the destabilization and overthrowal of currently established governments;
Encourages agencies such as the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate to increase awareness and consensual aid to affected regions;
Suggests reforms to the governments of the affected regions in the following areas:
Government reforms strengthening the abilities of governments to protect against terrorism,
i. Possible reforms include but not are limited to peaceful removal of proven corrupt members, suggested removal of superfluous or corruptible positions;
Introduction of policies giving aid to local governments,
ii. Continued communication between the donor country and recipient is encouraged to ensure the agreeable allocation of aid contributed,
Establishment of consensual financial and resource focused relations between countries that experience prevalent terrorism and more wealthy countries is encouraged;
Requests the assistance of the Counterterrorism & Security Education and Research Foundation, which can aid in the following areas:
Education of individuals in the region,
Training and education of government officials in the affected governments,
Funding for aid and aforementioned programs, along with funding from the CTC.

EcoFin

Committee: Economic and Financial

Sponsors: India, the Swiss Confederation, Brazil

Topic: Sustainable Development of Sub-Saharan Agriculture

Signatories: Italy, Russia, Iran, Germany, Uruguay, Singapore

Fully aware of the ever-growing international populations,

Taking into consideration economic stagnation of Sub-Saharan Africa,

Bearing in mind corruption among elected officials is affecting the dispersal of financial aid,

Emphasizing the importance of finding peace between Sub-Saharan African countries,

Having heard of internal and external conflict between many Sub-Saharan African countries,

Recognizing that land is the most important and abundant resource to the impoverished populations,

Acknowledging that nearly 60% of the population ages 15-17 are not attending school,

1)Supports the idea of educating on sustainable agricultural methods which:

a) Allow for local populations to maintain soil quality and increase yields,

b)Aims to improve upon the currently underutilized education system by:

i)Constructing school buildings:

(1)Through the Mercy Corps (having previously done multiple projects pertaining to construction for areas of poverty)

ii)Assigning staff, specifically the teachers, based upon:

(1)Knowledge of specified region,

(a)International educators can be expedited to these critical areas to later:

(i)Educate the locals to experienced or expert levels,

(ii)Allow for gradual reduction of foreign aid to maintain the sovereignty of nations receiving aid as economic growth is made apparent through GDP,

iii)Encouraged vocational agricultural courses offered in both primary and secondary institutions:

(1)To provide educational opportunities on flexible hours, including night classes and off-season classes, allowing for workers to become educated at times that work for them,

(2)With focus on various pathways pertaining to agriculture including, but not limited to:

(a)Agriculture Sciences,

(b)Agriculture Mechatronics,

(c)Agribusiness,

(d)Agronomy,

(e)Animal Sciences (Large, Small, and Exotic),

(f)Agriculture economist,

(3)Allow these impoverished people to have a profitable career which can be expanded:

(a)Through entrepreneurship

(b)Through additional educational opportunities at the expense of the people who have benefitted economical through the implementation of the skills learned through these programs,

iv)Providing access to technology through the vocational institutions to students, as to not only broaden the resources of the students, but to also decrease the gap between those with and without technological resources such as:

(1)Computers and electronics,

(2)Modernized agricultural equipment which:

(a)Is provided on loan on a community ownership basis;

2)Emphasizing that through the International Funds for Agriculture Development (IFAD) would like to provide modernized machinery to both large and small-scale farmers, with decisions based upon necessity that will:

a) Avoid the corruption within the dispersal system of aid which will:

i)Include a personal delivery from country to country, by assigning each one of our cantons to specific cases, and hand delivering it, thus avoiding the external and internal conflict among those countries;

3)Suggests that current humanitarian aid efforts are reinforced to provide funding for these expanded ideas,

a)Asking member nations with similar stances on the issue, such as the United States and Brazil, to focus their humanitarian efforts towards educating the rural population of Sub-Saharan Africa;

4)Calls for the creation of agricultural funds for farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa available after education

a)Encourages the use of grants to incentivize agricultural development

Committee: Economic and Financial Committee

Sponsors: French Republic, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Topic: Countering the Funding of Terrorism

Signatories: Italy, Bolivia, China, Brazil, and Germany

Recognizing the recent increase of terrorist funding which allows terrorist organizations the power to carry out deadly operations,

Understanding that stopping the transfer of money to terrorist organizations would greatly help the cause of stopping future attacks,

Recommends the creation of framework legislation within countries that requires banks to allow their host country full access to bank records to assist in detection, and require them to report any suspicious activity,
Suspicious activity would include but would not be limited to,
large amounts of money being transferred to an international or offshore account,
Large amounts of money would be any amount larger than 1000 USD,
Any current or former connections to known terrorists,
Is or has ever been flagged for an internet watch list or no fly list;

Supports the creation of a UN database for all the known possible or confirmed terrorists and their bank records,mm
This database would be titled “the United Nations Database for terrorist records” or the UNDTR,
The database would include,
a collection of bank records of suspected terrorists or confirmed terrorists that individual states voluntarily give to the UN,
if the banks fail to comply with this resolution then they would be recommended to the security council for sanctions;
A council would also be created for this database to monitor the received information,
the council would consist of representatives from all countries signed onto this resolution,
The representatives would be the permanent UN mission representatives or a stand in sent by a state to represent them,
Funding for this council would come from donations from member states,
The council's responsibilities would only include the oversight of the information pulled from the database at anytime,
any state requesting access to information from the database must get permission from the council and host government,
Any state providing information to the database will be asked if they consent to have that information revealed to the inquiring party,
Information will only be given to one inquiring party at a time and all requests must be approved by the host nation,
Strongly urges the international cooperation with the Global Counterterrorism Forum to,
Create unification in the counterterrorism goals such as,
Developing Good Practices and tools for policy-makers and practitioners to
Strengthen capabilities of,
Civilians in counter-terrorism efforts,
National strategies,
Action plans,
Training modules,
Catalyzing implementation of United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy including but not limited to:
United Nation Secretary-General’s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism,
Sharing
Experiences,
Expertise,
Strategies,
Tools,
Capacity needs,
Capacity-building programs;
Suggests that member states implement the strict regulation of financial infrastructures by means of but not limited to:
Ability to issue arrest warrants against those who are suspected of providing financial resources to terrorist groups,
Referring to to law similar to the Saudi Arabian Law Concerning Crimes of Terrorism and its Financing,
The international adoption of already successful programs of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) to,
Prevent terror groups from abusing financial system and charitable organizations by means of but not limited to:
Providing technical program to train judges and investigators about,
Terrorism financing,
Money Laundering Methods,
International requirements for financial secrecy,
Methods used by criminals to exchange information,
Maintain strong government oversight over banks,
Creation of a comprehensive penal code,
Banking members who are suspected of funding terrorist groups can be issued an arrest warrant,
Referring to clause 2a,
Banking members who are found guilty of processing financial resources to groups linked to terrorism will be punished for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity under the International Law,
Cooperation with the GCTF mentioned in operative clause 1,
Welcomes all member states to cooperate with the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) to,
Identify, track, and share information regarding terrorist financial networks,
Leverage each participant’s existent expertise to create specialized targets of terrorist finance networks,
Coordinate joint disruptive actions,
Joint sanctions designations,
Offer support to continue countries in the region that need assistance building capacity to counter terrorist finance threats;
Urges all member states to comply with this resolution in order to peacefully resolve the issue of terrorist funding.

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