Twelve 11th and 12th Grade students from Marymount International School are attending The Hague International Model United Nations Conference(THIMUN) during the last week of January 2010. This year our students are representing the Democratic Repubilc of Congo, and will give an opening speech at the General Assembly and also speak at the Disarmament Opening Speeches and the Special Conference Opening Speeches. During the week long conference, the students take part in a variety of activities, modeled on the workings of the United Nations.
The Thimun website discusses the objective of the conference as follows:
"The object is to seek, through discussion, negotiation and debate, solutions to the various problems of the world: e.g. questions of human rights, protection of the environment, economic development, disarmament, the problems of youth and of refugees, as well as the more critical issues of war and peace. The young delegates, in seeking solutions to these problems, can learn to break away from narrow, national self-interest and develop true international cooperation."
Read more at
www.thimun.org
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Marymount students participate in the Thimum conference annually, and for the last two years have also taken part in the Model United Nations conference here in London. Developing international understanding is an integral part of both the IB and the Marymount curriculum.
