Preparing for Model United Nations.

The Model United Nations is an annual academic exercise where students assume the role of ambassadors of member countries of the United Nations and extensively explore, deliberate, and debate on global issues. It gives the participating students the opportunity to view and understand issues from different perspectives, get acquainted with people and cultures, learn to proffer credible and acceptable solutions to identified national and global problems.
From the new year, 2015, many high schoolers would be attending several of these conferences all around the world. Therefore I thought it necessary to arm you with resources that may help you prepare for this conference:

• Model United Nations handbook - to help you out with everything you need to know about the MUN; from rules of procedure to dress code.
•  The CIA World Factbook - to help you research on everything you need to know about the country assigned to you.

I still think you should research to find out more tools for the MUN. Nevertheless, these resources should do the trick.
Goodluck on your preparation for the Model United Nations.
Leave your comments to let me know how the conference turned out, or your reactions towards the resources I have suggested.
Cheers!
--Arinze Obiezue (Blog Administrator)

Youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner-- Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is not your average 17-year-old. She does not use Facebook or even a mobile phone to prevent her from losing focus on her studies.
She spent her summer vacation campaigning in Nigeria for the release of the kidnapped girls by the extremist Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Her indulgence in this activity made her grades to experience a worrisome dip.
She confronted President Obama about America's drone policy in a meeting last year, but she finds it difficult to befriend her fellow students in Birmingham, England.
Lately, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner-- grouped in the same category as Late. Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa, and while still a student at Edgbaston High School for girls, where she was summoned out of her Chemistry class to hear the news of her victory.
Ms. Yousafzai began campaigning for girls' education at the age of 11, three years before she was shot by the Taliban.
She was so young that some observers questioned how well equipped a child of that age could be to put her own safety on the line and commit to a life of activism.
The Nobel Peace Prize she received validates what she has taken on, but also underscores the disproportionate expectations that trail her.
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