Position paper
The goal of the position paper is to identify:
● The nature of the problem from the point of view of each group. The point is to provide an interpretation of the reality that can, however, implicitly suggest potential negotiating power of each group as well.
● Desired outcome of negotiations and evaluation of alternatives (what the country wants to achieve).
● Identification of key issues in each alternatives subject to negotiations.
● Assessment of the impact on each group.
The sources used for the arguments in the proposal should be of high quality. Groups are encouraged to use academic papers, official reports of various bodies (governments, international organisations, NGOs), respected newspaper articles (Economists, Financial Times, etc.), data or any other reliable sources. Blog discussions, Wikipedia or other commentaries can be useful sources of information as well, however note that reliability of those resources might be questionable. Thus, we strongly recommend checking the information in another independent source. Please remember that you are supposed to deliver pieces that go fairly beyond Wikipedia.
Note that position papers as well as presentations will be available to other teams as well so you might wish not to reveal all the details about your position. Nevertheless it might be advisable to keep some additional comments in a separate document that will help you in negotiations, but won't be posted anywhere.
Sample position papers can be found elsewhere. This one is pretty straightforward: https://www.wisemee.com/how-to-write-a-mun-position-paper/.
You are supposed to deliver something similar in terms of style, perhaps somewhat longer and with proper referencing. Additional guidelines can be found here https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-write-a-position-paper-1857251 and https://vmun.com/writing-position-paper-model-united-nations/ (that one is actually pretty good).
The papers should have between 1000 – 1500 words.
Presentations:
Prepare 10 minutes presentations and upload them together with reports into Moodle till Sunday 23:55. After each presentation there shall be at maximum 10 minutes for questions (clarifications, etc.) from the audience. The whole meeting is supervised and chaired by the EC-EP group.