Outstanding Performance at the Model UN Conference
It was bright and early on the morning of Saturday 5 March when fifteen Wykehamist Model United Nations (MUN) delegates set out with gusto to begin a two-day conference at Magdalen College School, Oxford.
Within a conference of over 300 participants from 26 schools and 48 countries, Winchester represented Uganda, Croatia and Germany with great success. Winchester pupils Luca Ryan and Raees Khan, representing the Gambia in the case of the Rohingya genocide, secured a decisive 10-1 victory in the model ICJ and were highly commended, as was James Hunter as a judge. Further commendations went to Alex Prvulovich, Jamie Mackinnon, Rafa Karapetyan and Toby Bowes-Lyon. MUN President Alexander Popov was, moreover, named the best delegate in his committee, as was Chris O’Sullivan, meaning that Winchester secured the joint highest number of individual awards of any school.
Overall, however, it was a weekend of profound moments, such as a moving speech on the power of youth by Afghan women’s rights activist Sveto Muhammed Ishoq. The US was urged to pay $2 trillion in reparations to Vietnam, the Security Council was dissolved and put on trial for war crimes, and 13 wars were declared amidst a complex network of bribes, pineapples and voting blocks.
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