Procedure Guide + Committee Flow

 Hi delegates!

As we gear up for Conference, I thought I would get on here and briefly describe how our committee will run next month. We will go over this in more detail at the beginning of Committee Session 1, so feel free to ask any questions when we go over this day of. I'm open to suggestions on the flow of committee as well, so if there's anything you'd like to see/do during committee, make sure to let me, Deepak, and Sophia know when we get to committee!

You can find the Procedure Guide here, which describes how we will open debate, how we will address witnesses, and how we will issue verdicts/rulings. Keep in mind that the Procedure Guide uses the Bosnian Genocide as an example, but our topic is regarding the Russia-Ukraine ICJ case. 

As for committee flow, you can expect to enter committee and 

1. Be given a run down of the committee structure and flow 

2. Be introduced to the ICJ case by your dais 

3. Open debate with a mandatory Speaker’s List organized by country in alphabetical order. This speech will be set at 1 minute 30 seconds (can be amended with a vote), where each Justice will briefly outline their initial rulings on the case. There will also be 2 comments set at 30 seconds each after each speech. 

4. After everyone has spoke, we will then move into a  perpetual moderated/unmoderated caucus, culminating in a formal caucus and voting bloc once verdicts/rulings have been completed.

5. During the rest of committee, the flow of committee is up to you and what points/motions you bring forward. You can call witnesses, question witnesses, call for a mod/unmod, ask for additional information from the dais, etc. 

The general idea is that all delegates will be expected to speak at the beginning of committee, then the rest of the committee is largely up to you all to structure (with dais' discretion of course!)

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