Model United Nations Update
Cleveland I – Fall Conference – November 11 & 12, 2009

The Cleveland Fall conference was held at the Church of the Covenant at University Circle, our first time at this site.   It was such a pleasure to find ourselves in such a  comfortable, welcoming, and beautiful environment.

The theme for the conference was “Reevaluation & Collective Reconstruction as a Global Community,” and this theme generated lively debate and discussion for the two day conference in November. 

                                            

Thirteen schools and 325 students attended the conference;  students came from Cleveland as well as suburbs both East and West.  We were pleased to have chairs and observers from both Cleveland State University and Cuyahoga Community College.

                                                    

A highlight of the Conference was keynote speaker Andrew E. Briggs, President of Freedom in Creation, an arts-based, psychosocial, educational, and water-development program aimed at empowering children of war affected northern Uganda.  Briggs spoke on the subject of “Identity: the War of Your Generation.”

Students found the conference both productive and engaging as they debated such topics as the Global financial Crisis, Maritime Crime, and Sustainable Development.