With the topics and chambers being interconnected, it is up to a small proportion of participants to keep the delegates of their represented states focused on their own agendas, whilst also serving the bigger picture and the main interests of their represented states. The Diplomatic Corps is an independent body, introduced during Munapest 2019, that serves the purpose of coordinating the efforts of all members of their states’ delegation. This enables them to achieve a higher level of communication between states and also leads to a higher degree of interconnectedness. These delegates will serve as “grey eminences” throughout the conference, gathering information from lower hierarchy delegates, helping as a head delegate, making decisions, disseminating information, and generally speaking for and coordinating the efforts of the delegation as a whole.
As the economic backbone of the conference, representatives of states will have the task of preserving the limited resources of their country to the most crucial projects their Delegations’ might want to achieve. Throughout the conference states will have the opportunity to aid allies or even withdraw funding from several projects taken under consideration during Munapest 2020. Delegations will have the chance to support each other and solve global problems not just with words but with tangible resources as well.
The role of media and news agencies have probably never been this important before; the way they present situations and topics can affect the moves diplomats and politicians will make in the future. Being the eyes and ears of the conference, Press Members are tasked with not letting any relevant story go undetected. Press Members are, during the simulation, employees of a News Agency, those of which have been carefully selected according to the certain topic and relevant states at hand. Reporters in the Press Corps will have the chance to report, evaluate, criticize, give an opinion, or even bend the truth a little about the progress of Munapest, its countries action, and a given chamber’s decisions. They will have to work to cover the events of the Conference from their Agency’s point of view, providing just the right amount of bias. Depending on the Agency, Press Members may also have to support some States’ interests through their reporting. This year Munapest 2020 will introduce media stakeouts and daily press briefings to reflect the lifelike environment of our conference.
What is interconnectivity? To put it simply, it is a system that allows us to inject a small fragment of reality into our conference. While committed to resolving the common issues of your chamber one must be mindful of how it would affect outcomes and your country’s policy in other chambers. Through Interconnectivity, your actions are not solely confined into your chamber, but rather could bring unforeseeable consequences in other chambers or countries. To make our conference more dynamic and engaging, the System of Interconnectivity is further supported by various other elements that are present in our conference: the Press Corps reports, evaluates, criticizes, and gives an opinion throughout the whole conference, the Financing System allows countries to aid one another more than just with words and the Diplomatic Corps, introduced in Munapest in 2019, to boost the coordination and lobbying activity of a state’s delegation.
Changes and developments to real-life situations are sometimes inevitable. Therefore the introduction of the main narrative, connecting each chamber, allows us to involve the highest number of states into debates and discussions. This obstacle is overcome through the concepts of diverging reality and crisis scenarios. Diverging Reality enables us to build a narrative for our conference a few weeks before it even begins, creating a unique, life-like situation throughout the conference. There could be situations when chambers might not be able to contribute to the most exciting topics, or it could be some states might feel that their voice and decisions are inconsequential within the chamber. Thanks to our team of young experts in the field of international relations, law, economics, and security- those of whom are eager and ready to connect the dots for these occasions- will artificially create situations which in real life might not occur, but are valid and believable scenarios. Chambers while discussing their topics might be hit with a crisis that would cause a twist initiating a change in their line of thought, redefine alliances, and adapt to the new setting laid ahead of them.
State interests do not always require the consensus of an entire Chamber, but rather the agreement of two or more States. Delegates will be able to achieve their goals and gain resources, as well as support possible allies by signing bilateral or multilateral Treaties. However, only a limited amount of resources will be at the disposal of Delegations - money will often be in short supply. Furthermore, resources will not only be required for signing treaties but also for dealing with unexpected Crisis events, so Delegates must be mindful of their spending!
States represented in multiple Chambers will be considered Delegations that have common aims and resources. Each Chamber will have a designated level of representation, so Participants could be Foreign Ministers or Ambassadors to the UN, to name a few possibilities.
Being at the top of a delegation’s Hierarchy will come with many rights but also responsibilities. A Delegation’s top Representative (a Head Delegate) will be the only one authorised to approve Bilateral and multilateral Treaties in the name of their State. The Head Delegate will be the highest-ranking Representative present at the conference at the given time period.