Wassenaar International Model United Nations 2027

About the Conference

SailMUN is a school Model UN conference hosted by the International School Wassenaar, near The Hague. The 2027 edition is the first time the school has run the event, and it is organised by a board of students supported by teachers. It takes place on 13 and 14 March 2027 at the school in Wassenaar under the theme of advancing change in the face of widespread inertia. Schools, individual delegates and student officers can all register. The conference is aimed at high school students and mixes beginner and advanced debate, with nine committees, including a General Assembly plenary run like a crisis, a historical Security Council and an International Court of Justice case. Committees 🛡️ General Assembly 1 (Disarmament and International Security) (Drone warfare and the protection of civilians in non-international armed conflicts; Regulating private military and security companies) 📚 General Assembly 3 (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) (Child marriage as a barrier to education and economic empowerment; Tackling female genital mutilation) 🤝 General Assembly 4 (Special Political and Decolonization) (Illegal evictions and demolitions of civilian property in the West Bank; Regulating France's neocolonialism in its former African colonies) 🚨 General Assembly Plenary (A crisis shared by all General Assembly delegates) 🛡️ Security Council (The situation in Sudan; The US, Israel and Iran conflict) 🏛️ Historical Security Council (1971) (The Bangladesh Liberation War; The Vietnam War) ⚖️ International Court of Justice (Application of the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Azerbaijan v. Armenia)) 🕊️ Human Rights Council (Modern slavery and human trafficking in multinational corporations; Freedom of expression for journalists in times of disinformation) 💼 Economic and Social Council (Youth unemployment in urban slums of the Global South; Energy insecurity caused by conflict related disruption to oil and gas markets)

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Wassenaar International Model United Nations

SailMUN 2027