News Category: MUN

Benenden recently hosted its 15th Model UN conference,comprised of 350 students and staff. After welcome refreshments in the Jat Atrium, the Opening Ceremony in the Centenary Hall got the day off to a fantastic start, with an inspiring speech by Secretary General Jamie (Year 13).For the remainder of the day plenty of great debate was […]

19 Benenden MUNers recently attended a conference at Reigate Grammar School. They travelled with a few experienced delegates, but had a large number of first-timers who bravely made the journey to their first MUN conference. Benenden provided delegates in all seven committees (Security Council, Crisis, DISEC, ECOFIN, SOCHUM, SPECPOL and Health), representing five delegations (Russia, […]

Written by Six One student Germaine – President of General Assembly, Benenden MUN. I have been participating in Model United Nations since I was in the Fifth (Year 10) and it is still my favourite club. MUN has benefitted me greatly in building my confidence, especially in public speaking and becoming more educated in current […]

Written by Six One student Scarlett – Deputy Secretary General, Benenden MUN. France, the third largest country in Europe in terms of land area and the second largest economy within the EU, is due to have an election in April to determine who will serve for the next five years as president. However, unlike other […]

Written by Six One student Aliya — President of Security Council, Benenden MUN. With the threat of a world war looming and pressure being placed on Russia to release Ukraine from its proxy-dictatorship, the classic question of foreign intervention has become predominant amongst the circles of many politics scholars, arguing for and against the effectiveness of […]

On Saturday students travelled to Reigate Grammar School to attend REIMUN for their first in-person conference for over a year — Benenden pupils represented USA, Argentina and Egypt. We took along a combination of experienced and novice MUNers and everyone threw themselves into committees and made interesting contributions to the questions being discussed. In addition […]

Twelve MUNers headed off to Wycombe Abbey last weekend for a US-style Model UN conference. We had representation in all four areas of the conference: ECOSOC, Security Council, US Senate and also a new venture, for us, the Arctic Council. In a very competitive conference we held our own, having an impact in all of […]

This month Benenden hosted our 12th Model UN conference – BMUN12 – which comprised around 400 students and staff and the standard of debate once again was extremely high. Despite the absence of the School Hall, the Opening and Closing Ceremony in the Sports Hall worked well. Linked to this venue change, instead of the usual General […]

This month MUN delegates participated in Oxford Global MUN. Representing eight different countries and spread across just three committees, this was a different approach from usual, but it worked really well and all the girls, both experienced Six Ones and relatively new Fifths, all got into their stride really well, putting in tremendous performances. Three girls […]