The Westphalian Diplomat3rd April 2014

Following thetradition, thedelegates wereoffered the chanceto learn fromvarious experts ofdifferentbackgrounds andacademic teachersheld theirworkshops on abroad variety oftopics rangingfrom introducingdifferent styles ofdebating to explaining possible issues regarding religion

or climate change.Experts Rima-

Maria Rahal andTobias Henz fromeMUN-fellows.netintroduced thesubtle but veryhelpfulcommunicationtechniques of goodnegotiators in“Harvard StyleNegotiation”. Whowould havethought that usefuladvice forbehaviour during

unmoderated caucus — such as focussing on commonground instead of individual positions — could berevealed in the process of peeling oranges?Political Scientist Katharina Glaab was able to change

the participants’ way of thinking about religion, its

meaning in modern societyand how religious actors cancontribute to solve issuesregarding different policy fieldsduring “The Role of Religionwithin the United Nations”.After briefing the

participants of “HumanitarianAssistance and StateSovereignty” on disasterresponse missions includingsharing personal experiencesand insights, paediatrician andICRC delegate JoachimGardemann enabled the

audience then to actively get involved. Learning step-by-step the hard road of the implementation of ahumanitarian assistancecamp, bearing in mindlocal geographical,religious and ethicalcircumstances, the fictivescenario underlines interalia the importance ofhumanity andimpartiality.Also focussing on the

effect of learning bydoing, in “PracticalTeambuilding Analysis”Johannes Breuer andChristoph Dymek surprised everyone with extraordinaryentertaining exercises that were calling for collaborationwhile crossing a fictive poisoned river. “That’s whatMUIMUN and the UN are about — only when we jointogether, we can reach something”, reflects a participant atthe end.

By JackyWestermann

MUIMUNmeets experts:“Onlywhen we join together, we can reach something”

MUIMUN page 2 | Committees page 3-7 | Timetable page 8 | Panorama page 8

B r e a k i n g News

1. Shooting at US Army's Fort Hood base in Texas: A soldier shot dead four colleagues andinjured 16 before killing himself.

2. Turkey court says Twitter ban violates rights. Erdogan still refuses to end the blocking.3. MUIMUN: The Chechenyan Goverment declares the nation’s independence and issues an

ultimatum that orders all Russian troops to leave the countrywithin 48 hours.

2 Thursday 3rd April 2014 - TheWestphalian DiplomatMUIMUN

The Many Faces ofMUIMUN:Coordinators Johannes Block and Felix Bayer

Why do you participate atMUIMUN?Johannes: I participated in a few

MUNs before I came back toMünster to resume my studies, andthen I participated in MUIMUN. Iwas just so impressed with the wholeorganisation and so amazed by themixture of social events and politicaldebates.Felix: Also, the high quality of the

Howabout youintroduceyourselffirst…My

name isJana, I’m23 yearsold andI’m

studying European Governance inthe first year ofmyMaster’s degree.What are your tasks at

MUIMUN?I’m part of the Fundraising Team,

and as the name suggests, we areresponsible for gathering all thenecessary funds for the conference.Take a look at our sponsoring wall oryour delegate’s bag, this year we reallydid our best to cultivate and expand

contacts with sponsors andsupporters for financial, material andideological support.How did you get to know about

MUIMUN and since when have youbeen a part of the team?I learned about MUIMUN during

my first year in Münster as a studentin 2010 and participated as a delegatein 2011 . Ever since that conference Ijoined the organisation team everyyear.Why do you participate in and

organise MUNs?After participating in and

organising a MUN for high schoolstudents, I knew that I simply had tocarry on with my commitment. TheMUIMUN team consists of so manydifferent but amazing and friendlypeople, it was a very easy choice tojoin and stay.

Could you be described as aMUN-veteran?Sounds like being quite old but

probably yes ;)What is your favourite memory

or experience of your MUN-life sofar?There are many dear memories and

key moments but my favourite thingabout MUNs is, that people, who aretotally strangers on Monday — andwho would have never met undernormal circumstances — are friendson Friday.Complete the following sentence:

The best way to compensate thisweek’s lack of sleep is…… grit your teeth! It’s really worth

the rings under your eyes and thecollective yawning during session.

By JackyWestermann

The Many Faces ofMUIMUN:On behalf of the Organising Team: Jana Bömer

debates is very impressive,even though it’s a rathersmall ambience. That is whyI decided to get involvedwith the organisation ofMUIMUN.What was a really

critical moment this week?Johannes: Well at the first

evening there was one.Literally right before the

Secretary General needed it to openthe ceremony, someone camerunning by shouting “They didn’thave any gavel!” So, I just ran out ofthe hall to get one. Worked fine inthe end, but I think that was … quitecritical.Felix: Additionally, waking up

every morning is a critical moment(laughs) . One week almost withoutsleep is exhausting — but worth it a

dozen times.Then on the other hand, what

was the best thing you haveexperienced this week so far?Johannes: For me, it was definitely

the opening ceremony, when wefinally sat down after an extremelytiring day and we saw our SecretaryGeneral opening the conference.That was amazing, because that’swhat we have been working for sincelast year.Felix: Well, I think the best part so

far was the Global Village onTuesday. It was awesome to see allthose people having brought theirtypical food, clothes and dances toshare them with participants from allover the world.

ByLisa Neidl

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One gigantic living room - peoplefrom all over the world sitting therediscussing country silhouettes,singing songs or trying to rememberuseful and useless facts. A giantgoogle street view and studentsanalysing it with utmostconsideration. When habitants ofMünster were visiting PensionSchmidt this night, an unbelievableshow was offered to them — the PubQuiz ofMUIMUN 2014.Forming teams at the beginning of

the quiz, the groups becameambitious conspirators fighting forvictory. You are not an expert ingeography? No problem, maybe youknow the 25th Pokémon or recognizeevery intro from TV-Shows.Consisting of four rounds withdifferent subjects in each one, theorganizing team made sure that everyarea of knowledge was tested. “It’s

like you’re waiting for your time tohelp, and then there is this onequestion you´ll be just like ‘Guys, Iknow that’” a student laughs.Although everyone was giving their

best, at the end the team “Berlusconi,Squishies and the minors” was theone to take the glory home with atotal of 71 ,5 points, followed by theirarch enemies “N.E.R.D.S.” and the

“United Rhubarbs”.Of course, it wasworth the effort - forthe winners there willbe some free drinks atthe farewell party.Among all the

topics, there is one toname explicitly: Whenthe groups were urgedto recognize re-enacted scenes, wesaw some stunning

emerging actors giving us a greatlaugh. Looking forward to see you inHollywood, guys!Pedestrians could hear it through

the windows as the students weresinging out loud, “We will rock you”and in joyful anticipation of the nextpub quiz: “Baby, one more time!”

ByLisa Neidl

Pub Quiz: Guys, I know this!

It is the fourth meeting andSudan does not become morecooperative. Actual main topic isthe oil reserves in the North ofSouth Sudan. The borderconflict between SouthSudan and Sudan still playsa big role as well.South Sudan insists again

to be a sovereign country,independent from Sudan.On the one hand thecountry’s delegate againdemands a referendum aboutthe national membership ofthe profitable North. On theother hand, South Sudaninsists on total independence fromSudan. For South Sudan the mostvaluable asset is crude oil, whichaccounts for up to 98% of thenational budget. However, thepipeline which enables worldwideexports leads through Sudan with the

country raising high taxes for that.Due to that reason South Sudan islooking for alternative pipelines.Building a pipeline is expensive and

South Sudan still does not have thefinancial capacity necessary for sucha project.Another important topic moving

the delegates is the humanitarian aidfor South Sudan from foreigncountries. In different worksheets

most of the delegates agree toprovide assistance: not in a financialbut in a practical way, for example bysending doctors to the crisis areas.

This is to avoid the abuse ofmoney. Furthermore thedelegates have agreed to supportSouth Sudan’s neighbourcountries which are affected bythe flood of refugees from SouthSudan.Actually, a very constructive

debate is taking place among thedelegates of the African Unionand many countries like Angolaor Togo are participating actively.The more wealthy countries like

South Africa and Libya show morerestraint in supporting South Sudan.And its direct neighbour and biggest“enemy”, Sudan, still remainsstubborn.

ByMagdalena Tröndle

AU: Sudan remains stubborn

COMMITTEES

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Yesterday the CEPAL could beexperienced as a committee withtwo faces again. While in the 15minutes subsequent to thecookie break a comprehensiveand concise plan was set out onwho would ship-in whichingredients to a Mojito-centeredPrevia (pre-party) on Friday, theactual committee work does notexactly move forward quicklyand pulling together onlyremains a pious hope.Also special remarks by the chair

were necessary to calm down thedelegates during a heated votingprocedure.Once again there is dissent between

several delegates about mere wordingissues, though with some relevance,of the presented working paperssubmitted by Brazil, Bolivia and

Argentina that had at that point alsogained support from Uruguay,Paraguay and Ecuador. In essence,the committee spends tons of timetrying to work out their differences.While the explicit contents of afuture draft resolution still remainunclear, at least now a decisiontowards the future venue of OEAseems to be made. Determined in a

vote by roll call, as narrowas it can be, the CEPALdecides by slim 9 to 8majority to move the OEA’sheadquarters to Panamá.Almost as narrow turned

out the decision betweenwhat would be mandatoryparts of the resolution ofmerely recommendations tothe OEA’s members. In thiscase, three fifths of the

biased states favored a more bindingversion of the working paper.It is expected that other clauses

might be spun off in order to reachthe necessary consensus on the corepoints and possibly elaborate a draftresolution soon.

ByHenningSchmies

CEPAL: Moving slowly to a serious statement ofcontinental integrity

Suffering from low energy levelsdue to the short amount of timebetween yesterday’s party andtoday’s committee session, theECOSOC setsout again to fightenergy povertyin the developingcountries.The sessions is

opened with adiscussion onhow to get startedwith building astable energy grid.Suggestions on

the features to beincluded are tobuild a smart gridacross severalcountries so it will be easier to buffershortages in individual countries. Assolution to their own energy needs,some of the delegates use an

unmoderated caucus as anunscheduled coffee break at theinfopoint.Last sessions draft resolution is

brought up again in its most recentversion and is welcomed by thewhole committee. However, some ofthe countries would like to add more

details, which later results in theamendment of the draft. Differentideas emerge on how to motivatepossible investors to provide the

necessary money but fightmonopolies at the same time.Led by Denmark, thesponsors of the draftresolution agree on the ideaof Senegal to includedefinitions of “absolute” and“relative” energy poverty. Thesuggested definitions arebased on the ones by theWorld Economic Forum andthe International Network forSustainable Energy Europe.As the draft evolves, the

delegates seem to reach ahigher energy level again,too…

ByFelix Baumgärtel

ECOSOC: Fighting The Lack of Energy

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Obviously having lost the firstdelegates to the social events,DISEC resumes its work almostcomplete on Wednesday morning.Quickly after the roll call, firstmotions for unmoderatedcaucuses are raised to continueworking on the draft resolutions.Especially the delegate of Republic

of Korea encourages his fellowdelegates to show passion duringtoday’s session clearly with the aim tobe ready for lunch on time. It quicklybecomes evident that the delegatesare forming two opposing groups.On the one hand, countries such asRussia, China and Canada(surprisingly not allying with long-time friend USA) can convinceseveral others to align with their draftresolution that primarily focusses onexplicit definitions, the importance

of the member states’ nationalsecurity and sovereignty and alsocontains the inclusion of experts ontransparency and confidencebuilding. Whereas on the other hand,the delegates of RoK, USA andGermany are prioritising thedifferentiation of weaponisation andmilitarisation and the prevention ofpolluting outer space or creatingdebris but are also underlining theright of self-defence againstweaponed satellites. Unexpectedly,

both groups are planning onadopting the EU’s code of conductwhich leaves Israel caught in themiddle since its position on thispart is clear: “Making access tomilitary insights and technologyinstitutions available to othercountries is not going to happenwith us.” After introducing bothdrafts, amendment time has arrivednow! And one can definitelycongratulate DISEC’s members onbeing most supportive toMUIMUN’s gossip — whether it iscausing a reproach of bribery (hasbeen refuted; it was simply helpingout with snack money) or showingoff Macarena-dance skills aspunishment for being late (by theway, great instructing, honourablevice-chair) .By JackyWestermann

GA 1st: Call for “good-looking draft resolutions beforelunch”

„The chair suggests closing thespeakers list to come to the votingprocedure. “ This sentence marksthe turn in today’ssession. Workingon the draftresolutions, thedelegates discussamendment afteramendment,listing them up toa total of sixteenfor the two chosendraft resolutions.Although a few

delegates seem tobe exhausted afterthe Global Village Party, this does notkeep most of them from continuingambitiously with a thrilling debate.Among others, they discuss a“programme of cooperation in whichstates conduct ‘lessons-learned’exchanges with the other Less

Economic Developed Countries”.While the morning was dominatedby moderated caucuses to discuss the

last points, the afternoon is all aboutvoting procedure.The afternoon? Yes, the

committee’s members lost themselvesin their debates so that there simplywas not enough time to vote beforelunch.

However, that does not keep themaway from voting anyway. Instead,the committee is meeting again for

an extra session in the afternooncarrying out the first votingprocedure — with a remarkableend.Spending nearly an hour on

voting in favour or againstamendments, the results areimpressive: Draft resolution 1 .1clearly fails. However, the draftresolution 2.1 , with firstsubmitters Afghanistan andAustralia, passes with nine votesin favour, two against and onevote abstaining. Thus the first

topic of this week has been closed —the first mission in GA6 has beensuccessfully accomplished!

ByLisa Neidl

GA6: We can’t stop and we won’t stop!

COMMITTEES

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At the beginning of today’sdebate, there is one thing thatdirectly attracts attention inthe conference room: Thedelegates have changed theirseating arrangements. A hintto the new alliances that havebeen formed during the lastdays’ sessions?The Russian Federation seems

to act in concert with its newfriend China. Pakistan stronglysupports Palestine and theUnited States of America — howcould it be otherwise — holds itsprotecting hand over Israel.But facing the substantial issues

during the third session of thedebate, one has to say, that the HRC’sdiscussion about the human rightssituation in the occupied Palestinianterritories primary turns towards twomayor topics. First, the existence and

extensiveness of Israeli settlements inthe aforesaid territories and second,the occurrence of rocket attacks inthe Gaza Strip including the absolutenecessity of achieving a ceasefireagreement.The heated debates during several

moderated caucuses were basedupon two working papers that havebeen written by the country alliance

Pakistan andIndonesia andsecondly by France,the United Stated ofAmerica, Germanyand Italy. A third onehas been handed in bythe RussianFederation. The debatefinally shifts to anunmoderated caucuswith the intention tocome together and

write some draft resolutions whichhopefully pursue the debate towardssome realistic constructiveness. TheUnited Nations excitedly fixates itsgaze on the HRC in hopes of someprogress concerning this age-oldconflict.

ByLeonieGomm

HRC: New seating arrangements, new alliances?

During the third session ofthe ICC quite some tensions arebuilding up. It is notcompletely sure, if these arecaused by a hangover from theGlobal Village party or by theissues discussed in this session.But one fact is certain: They areslowing down the fatigueddelegates in manyways.The different parties are

examining the prosecution’s witnessÍngrid Betancourt, who was Rojes’captive for years. She delivers thesurprise of the day: IgnacioVelazquez, Turbay’s assistant wasworking for Rojes!This allows a total new perspective

to the murder of Turbay: It wouldmean that there could beconnections between FARC and theColombian state.The further debate is dominated by

the frequent “Objection!”

exclamations of the victimrepresentatives, which obviously donot like the way the defence isquestioning Betancourt.So this part of the session is going

on really slow due to a lot ofdiscussions.The second half of the session also

reveals some interestingdevelopments.First, the chairs play a recorded

police interrogation of Rojes. Duringthe comparison with a transcript of

this interview, it seems as ifsomeone altered the transcriptto make Rojes look crueler.Subsequently, Rojes himself isbeing questioned by the court.From his point of view, he is nocruel murderer, but a savior,who made necessary sacrifices.When the defence

counsellors are presenting anunauthorised peace of

evidence, they cause a heated debateabout the legitimacy of evidences.While the chairs approved it prior tothe session, the other members of thecourt did not know about it and arearguing about how it should betreated.So this session ends with much new

developments, but only littleprogress.

By JohannesHuland

ICC: “I had no choice!”

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Many of the SecurityCouncil’s member states seethe role of women in peaceand security as a veryimportant topic on theircountries' agendas.To initiate the debates, the

first challenge for the SecurityCouncil is breaking this topicdown: What are the actualproblems that women arefacing in conflicts? What arethe different aspects to this topic?Which regions are especially affectedby this? While this is mainly asecurity issue, there were alsodiscussions on how to connect this tosocial and economic aspects.Argentina proposed that to involvewomen in security policies, thereshould be more women included inarmed forces.

The SC abstains from superficialsolutions, but tries to get down to theroot of the problem and findsolutions to prevent conflict-relatedviolence against women from thebeginning. The discussion focusedon various aspects that can preventthis, from improving education forwoman to prevent exploitation, tofighting poverty and organized

crime, which was seen as amain source of violenceagainst women by manystates. Especially humantrafficking is seen as a majorthreat. Proposals to preventthis range from improvedborder controls to training ofpolice and military forces.While some member stateslike China are concernedabout their countries'

sovereignty, others believe that theUnited Nations need to take action.The delegate of Chad concludes

that, despite different approaches tosolve the problem, the fight againsthuman trafficking is a common goalthat unites all members of the SC.

By Susan Goessling

Yesterday’s session hasseen the emergence of twoopposing camps, one buildaround the United States ofAmerica, the other aroundthe Russian Federationwho both propose theirown draft resolutions.However, the path to

unanimity is paved when thedraft resolution proposed bythe United States andsupported by the FrenchRepublic and the IslamicRepublic of Iran have been discarded,after the course of intense debate thatleads to the finding that in order toprotect the World Heritage Sites amore substantive text is needed.The seed of unanimity planted that

day grew into a small plant andtoday’s session is the setting ofintense and productive debate.Dedicated to the cause, the

honourable delegates vote for adiscussion of the more detailed draftresolution as proposed by theRussian Federation and supported bythe Syrian Arab Republic, the IslamicRepublic of Iran and the Republic ofIraq.The session ends with a spectacular

moment when the French Delegationaccuses the delegate of another

delegation without actuallynaming him or her ofreading messages, which arenot addressed at thatdelegation, and eventhreatens to leave the room.Russia takes the floorimmediately after that andexplains with a smile that theRussian delegation has notwitnessed such happenings.It is the prospect ofapproaching lunchtime thatlets the delegates quickly

forget about the incident and thespirit of unanimity returns to thecommittee. It is expected that TopicA will be concluded by tomorrowwhich leaves the committee time totackle Topic B in the remaining days.

By Julian Philippi

UNESCO: The spirit of unanimity

SC: Fighting organized crime to prevent violence againstwomen

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Today's Schedule

09:00-13:00 Committee Session 112:00-13:00 Lunch A13:00-14:00 Lunch B13:00-18:00 Committee Session 220:00-22:30 Nightwatchman Tour

+ Pub Crawl

Today in History

3. April 1948:

Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, signs the EuropeanRecovery Program, better known under its common name: MarshallPlan. It was developed by the US-Army General George C. Marshall

in order to quickly stabilize Society and economy in post- war Europe afterthe havoc of the second world war.

EveningActivity:

NightWatchman Tour and

Pub CrawlEven if you call Münster your hometown, the

exciting Night Watchman Tour will take you on ajourney through history and reveal secrets aboutMünster that even natives would not know. Theorganizing team has prepared a list of bars for thefollowing pub crawl and warmly invites everyone tocheck out Münster nightlife. The tour starts at 8pmin the Town Hall Courtyard, Prinzipalmarkt.

English Tongue

Twister:

Howmany cookies could a goodcook cook If a good cook couldcook cookies? A good cook couldcook as much cookies as a goodcook who could cook cookies

I was born in 1931 . Originally longing to become adoctor, I instead taught for a while. At the age of 53,I was invited to Oslo to receive a huge gold coin. I

wear glasses. And I work particularly hard for the rightsof homosexuals and the Palestinian people.

Person 2ndApril: HillaryClinton

Most of our internationaldelegates do not know thatMünster is famous for cruelcrimes. And when I say crimesI'm not talking about bike thefts— I'm talking about the gloomyand bloody stories that give youchills. I can still remember myfirst encounter with the crimescene in Münster. Checking mywatch, I headed slowly back to

EditorialMünster University International Model United NationsChief Editorship: Franziska Funke, Christian StöcklEditorial Staff: Johannes Huland, Magdalena Tröndle, Felix

Baumgärtel, Lisa Neidl, Leonie Gomm, Susan Goessling,JackyWestermann

Contributors: Tobias Farwer, Annkathrin StrußJulian Philippi, Henning Schmies

Print: UniPrint: 250 copiesThe Westphalian Diplomat is an independent newspaper. The content

of the articles does not necessarily represent the opinion of the“Arbeitstelle Forschungstransfer”.

Who is it?

PANORAMA

the University building after mylunch break when an ill-humouredwoman dressed in black andequipped with a walkie-talkie mademe jump: “Stand still and don´tmove!” Frightened I turned my eyefor murderers, thieves and burglars —but everything I saw was a big filmcamera. Münster is famous forhosting Germany´s most iconic TVcrime series: Tatort. Sometimes

Prinzipalmarkt cannot be accessedfor what feels like hours just to shootprotagonist detective chief inspectorFrank Thiele cycling along. The endofmy story? 20 Minutes late for uni.

ByFranziska Funke

TypicallyMünster: Tatort