Coaching Winning Model United Nations Teams: A Teacher's Guide

Appendix C: Sample Background Guide

127 Background Guide 2012—Cyber Security/Cyber Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127 Earlier background guides can be found at www.potomacbooksinc.com: 2011—Arab Spring 2010—Control of Transnational Drug Trafficking 2009—International Sea Piracy 2008—Global Warming & Climate Change 2007—Nuclear Non-Proliferation BACKGROUND GUIDE: CYBER SECURITY/CYBER WARFARE By Taruni Paleru and Manjari Kumarappan My First MUN IX Training Conference Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 George C. Marshall High School 7731 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, Virginia Table of Contents Welcome Delegates! Introduction to Model United Nations: What is MUN? What Is a Background Guide, and How Do I Use It? Introduction to Cyber Security and History of Cyber Warfare Current State of Cyber Warfare APPENDIX C: SAMPLE BACKGROUND GUIDE UN Actions Against Cyber Warfare Questions to Consider General Sources to Consult Country/Corporation Links Bibliography Glossary WELCOME DELEGATES! Welcome to “My First MUN IX.” For most of you, this MUN Training Conference will be your introduction to Model United Nations, an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy, and the United Nations agenda. Because “My First MUN IX” is a training conference for novice MUNers, there is only one topic up for discussion—cyber security/cyber warfare. As Model UN delegates , you will role-play as a diplomat representing either one of the UN’s 193member countries, or as the leader of an international corporation. At the conference, you will represent your country (or corporation) in a simulated UN committee session of the General Assembly. In advance of the conference, we ask that you do four things: (1) research your assigned country or corporation (your faculty advisor will know the countries/corporations assigned to your school); (2) write a one-minute statement of your country/corporation’s position on the topic (cyber security/cyber warfare) and bring it with you to the conference; (3) dress the part—western business attire (shirt and tie for young men and skirt and blouse/dress/pants suit for young women); and (4) come prepared to learn and practice the essential MUN skills of Internet research, writing position papers and resolutions , and public speaking. This conference consists of two main parts. The morning session consists of large group instruction on the essential knowledge and skills needed to do well at future MUN conferences. These morning sessions are presented by veterans of MUN, history and government teachers at Marshall High School, and experts in the field of foreign policy. The afternoon committee sessions will simulate what delegates can expect to encounter at competitive MUN conferences. Each delegate will represent a country or international corporation active in the field of cyber security. These small group sessions will be chaired by students active in the University of Virginia’s International Relations Organization (IRO). These sessions will operate under procedural rules developed for the IRO’s annual VAMUN high school conference. 128 Appendix C Led by Secretaries-General Monika Bapna and Jasmine Oo, the Steering Committee and its faculty advisors began work on this conference last May in hopes that it would encourage your successful participation in future MUN conferences . In taking on the challenge of a topic as complex as cyber security, the Steering Committee held firm to the idea that it was not beyond the comprehension of high school and middle school students. We have included in this background guide a glossary and a set of general and country-specific websites to aid in your research. We trust you will find them helpful. We hope your active participation in the afternoon simulations will bear out our confidence that this topic is a timely and interesting one. And finally, if we have inspired in you an excitement and enthusiasm for MUN, then we will judge this conference a success. Sincerely, Assistant Secretaries-General for Policy, Taruni Paleru Manjari Kumarappan SECTION 1—INTRODUCTION TO MODEL UNITED NATIONS What is MUN?1 What is a Background Guide, and how do I use it? Q: What is Model United Nations? A: Model United Nations is an authentic simulation of the UN General Assembly and other multilateral bodies. Q: How did Model UN begin? A: Simulating international organizations began even before the birth of the United Nations, when students held a series of Model League of Nations in the 1920s. The Model UN Program is a successor to a student-directed simulation of what preceded the UN itself, but it...