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 RiMUN MUN conference by United Netherlands This year United Netherlands has been elected by the WorldMUN Harvard Secretariat to host WorldMUN 2009. This grand event will take place from March 22 — March 27, 2009 in The Hague, the legal capital of the world. Therefore United Netherlands will not organize RiMUN 2009. We look forward to seeing all of you at WorldMUN in The Hague and at RiMUN in 2010! For more info check out the WorldMUN website and join the WorldMUN Facebook Group. RiMUN RiMUN is United Netherlands' own yearly Model United Nations conference. The first edition was organized in December 2005 in Nijmegen and was called Radboud intrauniversity Model United Nations. 26 different countries were represented in a highly successful conference that was themed Freedom vs Liberty - in an international perspective. In April 2006 the second edition took place in Nijmegen. This time called Radboud international Model United Nations, participation was open for students from all Dutch universities and abroad. This edition was centered around the theme of the Millennium Development Goals. With interesting debate, speakers Mandeep Bains (policy advisor UN Millennium Campaign), Ruud Lubbers and Dries van Agt (former Dutch prime ministers), this conference was a tremendous success as well. From November 24th to November 26th 2006, the next RiMUN took place. This time the theme was War on War - Peace and Security in the 21st century. Speakers were, among others, Dr. P. H. Kooijmans, Ms. mr. C. F. Meindersma & Prof. dr. M. van Rossem. RiMUN 2007 was centered around the theme Fight 4 Freedoms: Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union revisited. Delegates re-enacted the League of Nations, discussed the limits to freedom of religion in a symposium and debated about female circumcision. With almost 250 participants of which 30 different nationalities and coming from 24 different universities, the fifth edition of RiMUN (2008) was a grand success. The theme United inDifference provided for fruitful debates about, amongst others, the Arctic Ocean and the role of climate change in civil conflict. At RimUN 2008, United Netherlands was honored to host former Dutch Minister of Development Cooperation and Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Sudan, J.P Pronk as well as the Mayor of Nijmegen, Mr. Th.C. de Graaf. |