Cabinet Crisis

Presidents:
Simón Medina
María Fernanda Martínez
Chief of Crisis:

Language: English

Opening Speeches: 1 opening speech of a minute. (topic will be given in the opening ceremony)

Dear delegates, its a pleasure to receive you in the cabinet crisis committee. The TVSMUNXI cabinet of crisis this year will have a methodology in which we, your presidents push on the delegates to develop critical thinking skills and take pressure decisions in a short amount of time during the committee.

As you may know, unlike the committees of a normal MUN, the crisis committee will not have a static timeline, this means, the committee will not develop upon a single handed topic but thanks to the decisions taken by the delegates. Of course the delegates will have to understand the context of the topic to understand the situation and the position of their respective country or character they are representing. But, they will have to do it in a short amount of time, as any action taken by the delegates may affect the committees progress.

The main idea of a crisis committee is to motivate the delegates, besides giving their position, is to finish, in the fastest way possible the conflict they will be working in ( or worsen it). The main way a crisis committee will develop is by crisis updates ( actions or events planned by the presidents or by the delegates directives that may affect the committee development) and by directives ( list of concrete actions taken by one or more delegates with the delegates ideals that will change the course of the debate and will force the delegates to form new ideas). A crisis cabinet is a very strategic committee so delegates should be aware of the possible results of directives, as they have a major role in the debate. Directives may be written for trying to solve a specific problem or just to gain power and influence in the committee ( like a RISK game).

The cabinet will have two presidents, who will ensure the procedure of the debate ( as in any Model of the United Nations), will follow the normal procedures and attend to the delegates needs, and a chief of crisis, who will be in charged of receiving the directives and uploading the crisis updates for the delegates.

There are two types of directives in a cabinet of crisis, personal directives and public directives…

Personal Directives (or crisis notes): A personal directive its an action taken by a delegate with its powers in the committee to achieve a goal planned by the delegate.

Sometimes crisis notes may be the main communication line between the crisis room and the delegates. Some of the crisis notes may be a question regarding to a new crisis update to the chair.

The crisis notes are completely personal, and must be correctly written as a crisis note success depends on how well written it is. For a crisis note to obtain success it must cover a list of requirements such as the delegates intentions, when it should be taken, why it is being taken and most importantly how will it be taken. Delegates should be very specific with the development of their crisis note, as leaving a few details may affect totally the result of their intention. Sometimes crisis notes may need to be encrypted as if they are not, information out of the crisis note may be leaked and affect the delegates plan or worse, give the opposite result.

(Crisis Explanation - MEDMUN. (n.d.)

Here is a good example for a crisis note:

(Lessons from MUNI: How to Write a Crisis Directive. (n.d.)

Directives: A directive is a sort of a mini-resolution which address to a immediate solution for the problem discussed in the committee in which a vast majority of the members of the cabinet would like to take part of. A directive must be written by a delegate and pass it to the chair, the chair will proceed to read the directive and it will be voted by the members of the cabinet. Directives are like resolutives but way simpler and easier to develop. Most of the good directives are short, operative-phrase-like clauses.

This is an example of a good directive:

(Lessons from MUNI: How to Write a Crisis Directive. (n.d.)

We hope after this brief introduction to a Cabinet Crisis delegates get to understand what is a crisis cabinet and understand some of its procedures. We expect from our delegates a huge compromise and intention to solve the problems presented in the fastest way possible, remember, in a crisis cabinet time is your biggest enemy. We are sure we will have a great Cabinet Crisis this year and that we will have a great time.

Greetings, María Fernanda Martínez and Simón Medina

References:

(Lessons from MUNI: How to Write a Crisis Directive. (n.d.). Retrieved from

(Crisis Explanation - MEDMUN. (n.d.). Retrieved from