Welcome Letter

Dear Delegates of the Model United Nations:


It is both an honor and a privilege to invite you to the fifteenth annual session of the Concordia International School Model United Nations. After a successful conference last year, we are excited to organize another and continue the international expansion. Regardless of the role you play in the CISSMUN conference, whether chair, judge, delegate, or member of the press corps, we hope that the weekend’s work will leave you with a heightened understanding of the social and political challenges confronting the international community, and that you will come away more practiced in the arts of public speaking, negotiation and compromise. We are confident that by the time the gavel falls to mark the closing of CISSMUN XV, each of you will have played a part in making the conference a success. For this, we thank you in advance.

Beyond this, our aspiration for CISSMUN XV is not merely for the simulation to benefit individual participants or that its success be another feather in the Concordia cap. Rather, we hope that you will view your participation as the critical first step in cultivating an ethic of service to others, beginning a new journey towards improving yourself and the global community. We hope that by bringing into sharper relief the magnitude of the challenges confronting the international community, the conference will inspire each of us to match words with actions and to commit to making a difference for those less fortunate than ourselves. If we succeed in this charge, if we find it within ourselves to take our newfound knowledge and use it to lighten the load of the world’s least fortunate, then, truly, the conference has served its purpose. We task each of you with that charge, and say with great confidence that we know you will not disappoint. We look forward to your active participation in the fifteenth annual session of the CISSMUN conference, and I wish you every success.

Kind Regards,

The CISSMUN Secretariat
Concordia International School Shanghai