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Committee Summary
This year, BruinMUN’s Novice UNESCO Committee will be tackling issues that work to preserve global culture and economies through international cooperation, and the utilization of education and science.
As a novice committee, this will be designed for those still new to Model UN. This is a great opportunity to get more experience with the format of committee and build your public speaking skills and your confidence!
Delegates will engage in hearty debate over the best ways to protect cultural sites across the world from over tourism while still maintaining healthy activity levels for local, reliant economies. They will also discuss how to enshrine language rights for indigenous and minority languages whose numbers are continuing to dwindle in a globalized world. Delegates will be in charge of balancing sovereignty and cultural heritage, as well as the environmental, economic, and political impacts of their solutions.
Bring your research, your creativity, and your best hooks–it’s going to be a great committee!
MEET THE CHAIR
EMMA RIEDEL
Dear Delegates,
My name is Emma Riedel and I am so excited to be your chair for Novice UNESCO at BruinMUN 34! I am a 4th year Anthropology and Political Science double major with an Education Studies minor. I hope to teach for a couple of years before going to graduate school and working in education policy. I am from Scituate, Massachusetts, a small town south of Boston, and have loved getting to feel the sun in Southern California. I love a good hike, video essay, scrapbook or painting night, or listening to a new album.
I’ve been in Model UN since my freshman year of high school and am so lucky to have had the opportunity to continue being a part of it in college. While my competing days are behind me, I find so much joy in being able to chair committees–espescially for those who are new to Model UN. I’ve served as dias staff and chairs for both BruinMUN and LAMUN and am serving my second year on our Executive Board, first as Director of Membership and now Director of Internal Relations. I am so grateful to help in bringing all of our delegates and members a positive experience in my last year at UCLA.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Committee is a great introduction to international cooperation in order to preserve the world's lands and cultures. You will be exploring how to protect cultural sites from overtourism and managing the economic implications as well as how to safeguard indigenous and minority language rights in an increasingly globalized world. You will have to consider economic, environmental, political, and cultural consequences of your resolutions and how to compromise. You will learn how to collaborate with different interests while producing realistic, effective, and specific solutions. I believe in all of you to create fruitful debate to help you build your own public speaking and problem solving skills.
Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions; many of you will be new to MUN so that is totally normal! I look forward to seeing you all in November.
Take care,
Emma Riedel | Chair, UNESCO | BruinMUN 34