The Oberlin College International Affairs Association

10/24/2013

NMUN

10/19/2013

The traveling team is as follows:
1. Justin Andrews
2. Eliza Diop
3. Nimo Ismail
4. Aaron Pressman
5. Matthew Russell
6. Taylorlyn Stephan
7. Stephen Yuanlong Liu
8. Tianijan Hou
9. Cory Ventresca
10. Simbarashe Runyowa
11. Noah Regen
12. Jonathan Jue-Wong

Harvard here we come!

10/11/2013

The selection process is almost complete! Stay tuned to find out who the members of Oberlin's Inaugural Debate team are!

10/09/2013

What interesting international development are you most moved by?

http://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/universal-ratification-of-the-convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child-and-its-optional-protocols-needed-to-protect-children-worldwide/

Joint Statement by the Office of the Special Representative on Violence Against Children and the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed C

10/09/2013

http://www.nmun.org
Due unforeseen circumstances the OCIAA will not be attending the LIMUN conference. Instead we will be attending the largest in the US, the National Model United Nations Conference.

Welcome to the official site of the National Collegiate Conference Association (NCCA), sponsor of National Model United Nations (NMUN). Only the conferences listed on this site are official programs of the NCCA/NMUN.

10/01/2013

The OCIAA will be announcing the inaugural Model United Nations Debate Team very soon! Stay tuned to meet all of the members of our London Team.

09/30/2013

The OCIAA Debate Team will hopefully be attending this wonderful conference February 2014: http://limun.org.uk

London International Model United Nations is the largest annual university level MUN conference in Europe, set in the world's most cosmopolitan city.

09/19/2013

Registered!

The ChoMUN (University of Chicago Model United Nations) Conference is one of the best in the country, with schools attending from all over the world. Oberlin will have a delegation of 12 people. Stay tuned for our committee assignments.

It is my honor and privilege to welcome you to the seventeenth annual session of the Chicago Model United Nations Conference. ChoMUN XVII will be held from Thursday, April 17th through Sunday, April 20th, 2014 at the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago, and I hope that everyone will make the tri...

07/14/2013

Think Globally, Act Locally: Meet Hipsterth!

07/01/2013

The most important question of our generation:
Is anything private anymore?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/30/us-usa-eu-spying-idUSBRE95T09C20130630

BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union has demanded that the United States explain a report in a German magazine that Washington is spying on the group, using unusually strong language to confront

06/30/2013

A world free from nuclear weapons, governmental and diplomatic hypocrisy and the covert stockpiling of uranium, lithium and other unstable materials is a world of peace.
The OCIAA is in Solidarity with Global Zero!

There are more than 17,000 nuclear weapons in nine countries. Each one is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

06/27/2013

Interesting: From being internally displaced, the Tibetan people are now being concentrated into towns within China. Will this be a step forward or a step back?: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23081653

More than two million Tibetans have been moved into so-called "socialist villages" by China over the last seven years, Human Rights Watch says.