• Fifteen years of intellectually stimulating and creative committees that act as provocative and stimulating forums

  • Fifteen years of intellectually stimulating and creative committees that act as provocative and stimulating forums

  • A dynamic Crisis Room that encourages imagination, individual agency, and personalized crises

  • A dynamic Crisis Room that encourages imagination, individual agency, and personalized crises

  • Foreign and Public Policy in the context of innovative committees that go beyond the United Nations

  • An inspired, well-trained, and dedicated Staff that acts as the backbone of the conference

  • Welcome to the University of Chicago's Chicago Model United Nations

Letter from the Secretary-General

Fellow Members of the Collegiate Model UN Circuit:

It is my distinct honor to invite you to the fifteenth Chicago Model United Nations Conference, a.k.a. ChoMUN XV – to be held from April 5-8, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in the heart of downtown Chicago.

Fifteen years ago, ChoMUN was launched with the objective of providing delegates an opportunity to discuss and debate policy in the context of innovative, original, and unconventional committees run by a truly phenomenal and well-trained crisis staff. In this decade and a half, the conference has certainly grown – today, we are simulating more than three times the number of committees, catering to more than ten times the number of delegates; our staff has also expanded tenfold. But we continue to be guided by the principles and objectives upon which the conference was founded.

In this spirit, ChoMUN XV shall offer its delegates the opportunity to participate in nineteen temporally and geographically diverse committees – including three mid-sized committees, a Joint Continual Crisis simulation, a Concurrent Continual Crisis simulation, and twelve small crisis committees. Temporally, our committees range from the Court of Cesar Borgia in the 1600s, the Belgian Revolution and the Italian Reunification in the 1800s, to committees at different stages of international relations in the twentieth century. We peer into the near future, with the Republican National Convention of 2012, and a bit further into 2014, with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as well as Brazil’s World Cup Local Organizing Committee. Geographically, our committees cover nearly all continents. Thematically, we look at a UN mission, a women’s movement, space-races, city planning, economics and finance, science and technology, cold-war politics, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial states, and campaigning and winning elections. Each of these committees will be run by a set of immensely qualified and talented Chairs and Crisis Directors supported by well-trained staff. Our staff-to-delegate ratio of 1:3 shall ensure that we are able to provide delegates with an individualized and engaging experience. Beyond the committee room, we will continue the tradition of our Friday and Saturday night social events, which we hope will complement your experience in committee and contribute to making the weekend a memorable one.

We sincerely hope you will join us at ChoMUN XV, and look forward to meeting with you in the Spring. Until then, should any questions or concerns arise, please feel free to contact me or any other member of ChoMUN XV’s Secretariat.

Best regards,

Rohan Sandhu

Secretary-General

ChoMUN XV

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