Model United Nations (MUN) is a
civic engagement program for high school students in the Los Angeles
Koreatown area. Acting as delegates from the United Nations (UN) member
states, students participate in and recreate UN meetings at conferences
throughout the country to discuss a wide variety of past and current
global issues. Students must conduct research in preparation for these
conferences and prepare speeches to present to their committees.
MUN
programs are usually implemented as a class or extra curricular club
and are most often found in affluent suburban high schools. Urban
schools in low-income areas, however, often lack the resources to run
this sort of program. We, at KAC, implemented this program as a
community-based club with some additions to the program design.