Realistic simulation of UN in Sri Lanka

The 3rd annual Sri Lanka Model United Nations (SLMUN) Conference was held at the Water's Edge Colombo, for the third time, in August 2010. SLMUN is a realistic simulation of the UN which gives students both around the world and in all regions of Sri Lanka the opportunity to experience first hand the challenges faced by actual UN delegates. This year's conference set new records by being deemed the biggest student MUN conference ever held in Asia with over 1,500 students from a multitude of Sri Lankan and International Schools, participating.

At SLMUN, students are chosen to take on the roles of either delegates of various nations, administrative staff or members of the executive committee.

CIS was honoured to have three students, namely Sung Won Yun, Megumi Yamamoto and Kithmina Hewage chosen to fulfill the roles of President of the UNEP, President of the Security Council and Secretary General of the entire conference respectively. These three executive committee members deserve special recognition as they worked assiduously to organize the entire conference.

Students of CIS represented the nations of Venezuela, Israel and Barbados, as well as the United States of America, arguably the most powerful country in the world.

At this impressive conference, CIS delegates exhibited the highest calibre of heated debate and impassioned speech in projecting their beliefs and goals of the nations they represented and also spared no pain to collect documentation and research material to propose pragmatic solutions to a number of large issues currently plaguing the global community at large. CIS had the honour of winning a plethora of the individual awards offered. These included the most prestigious Best Delegate / Delegation Award, as well as Higher Commendations and Honorary Mentions in Committees such as the Security Council, the Internal Court of Justice, the Committee on Disarmament and the United Nations Environmental Programme.

The culmination of these thrilling accomplishments was the honour of winning the most coveted trophy of the conference, the Best School Award, which CIS has successfully captured consecutively over the past two years.

SLMUN is taken very seriously at CIS with staff - in particular the Principal, the Head of Secondary and the Head of Sixth Form - providing invaluable support.