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Wed 18 Jul 2012 9:40PM

General Assembly Committee RoP

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Scott Bickerton Sat 21 Jul 2012 2:38AM

Do you think these need to be different to the Plenary? Except to change that resolutions are not passed in the committees but are voted on to whether they should be submitted to the plenary for debate. Also, should UNDP, WHO, WTO committees have similar RoP to these committees or be changed specifically to how their debates are managed in the real format?

AC

Andrew Chen Sat 21 Jul 2012 5:56AM

I think we need to standardise our RoP for high school students. It's hard enough to get them to follow one set, without having different rules for committee sessions and plenary sessions (and definitely without having different rules of GA comms and other comms). I know we want to strive for accuracy, but from a practical standpoint we want to make sure that the rules do not become an impediment to fruitful debate and discussion.

GG

Gayathiri Ganeshan Sat 21 Jul 2012 11:27PM

I agree with Andrew - I think one set of RoP is sufficient for plenary, GA committees, specialised agencies and ECOSOC agencies. There isn't great difference in the debate format of these committees and having different sets of RoP will just be confusing.

SB

Scott Bickerton Mon 23 Jul 2012 1:21AM

Andrew - Ok great, and you think we should have differen RoP for comms vs plenary for University students but not for High school students so that the differences don't impede debate? What kind of impeaching debate do you see happening with our RoP? What could be changed, or could not be changed to?

And with regards both your points in keeping the RoP the same for specialised agencies, how do you think this adds accuracy to the UN and a feeling that the committees are different? Can we do this without changing the RoP but doing more than just having a different Resolution?

AC

Andrew Chen Mon 23 Jul 2012 5:36AM

I was only thinking about high school events at the time - I think the less different RoPs we have floating around, the better. Even though it's less accurate, it makes life a LOT easier for both the chairs and the delegates. In terms of impeding debate, I mean trying to make sure that the debate sessions are about the content of the issue rather than just about the rules.

I think sometimes when we run MUNs, usually we pick the topics, and then try to come up with committees or agencies that could be discussing those topics - if there are different RoPs then it juts incentivises event organisers to force topics into committees that might not normally debate them.

GG

Gayathiri Ganeshan Mon 23 Jul 2012 6:39AM

I think if we're concerned about accuracy in comparison to the UN and issues these agencies and bodies discuss, we should be looking at committee and topic selection rather than RoP. I agree with Andrew - RoP shouldn't be allowed to affect the content of debates, and as long as the focus remains on committees and debate topics rather than a flooding of debate with too many procedural concerns this shouldn't be an issue.