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2025 General Assemblies

General Assembly committees bring together representatives from all UN member states to debate global issues such as peace and security, human rights, development, and international law. Through collaboration and negotiation, delegates develop resolutions that promote international cooperation and address today’s most pressing challenges. As the largest committees at conference, they are especially recommended for newer delegates while remaining engaging for all experience levels.

Unemployment in the Age of AI

Economic Development in Post-Conflict Nations

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Committee: ECOFIN
Topic: Economic Development in Post-Conflict Nations
Chair: Renee Sharapov

The 2025 ECONFIN Committee discusses economic development in Middle Eastern nations emerging from conflicts. In the last decade, several countries within this region have faced multiple wars, which have hurt their economic development and placed them into extreme debt. Delegates in ECOFIN are tasked with developing innovative solutions that reduce deficits, build up modern infrastructure, re-establish industries, and increase trade to improve the economies of Middle Eastern nations.

Le droit international humanitaire en temps de guerre

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Committee: SPECPOL (French)
Topic: Le droit international humanitaire en temps de guerre
Chair: Salome Valter

L'accent est mis sur le néocolonialisme et les efforts de décolonisation à travers le monde. Les délégués examinent la manière dont les anciennes puissances coloniales exercent actuellement leur influence économique, politique, sociale et militaire dans le Sud global. Les études de cas incluent la présence française au Sahel, les programmes d'ajustement structurel du FMI, ainsi que d'autres anciens territoires coloniaux de nations du Nord global.

Sex Work and Prostitution

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Committee: CSW
Topic: Sex Work and Prostitution
Chair: Anna Wagner

This committee discusses "sex work and prostitution," focusing on human rights, public health, and gender inequality aspects. Delegates explore decriminalization/criminalization and work to find solutions that protect sex workers from exploitation and abuse. This committee aims to create policies that promote safety and equality for sex workers, while considering the different cultural and legal perspectives of different countries involved.

Synthetic Drugs and Dark Web Trafficking: A New Age of Narcotics

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Committee: CND
Topic: Synthetic Drugs and Dark Web Trafficking: A New Age of Narcotics
Chair: Madeleine Tyndale

With darknet platforms like HydraNet fueling a silent global epidemic of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and synthetic substances, no region is untouched — from Western superpowers to Africa and South East Asia. Delegates must act before synthetic trafficking networks evolve beyond any nation’s control. This session calls on countries to confront chemical regulation gaps, digital enforcement failures, and the humanitarian cost of inaction before the crisis spirals even further.

Mitigating Trade Tensions Through Tariff Reform and Multilateral Economic Cooperation

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Committee: UNCTD
Topic: Mitigating Trade Tensions through Tariff Reform and Multilateral Economic Cooperation
Chair: Aadya Dasgupta

This committee discusses the current issue of tariffs between US, China, Canada, and most of Europe. The current tensions of imposing tariffs and unfair trade barriers between countries is potentially creating global war and a protectionist economy, the UNCTAD with the help of all nations cooperation can help build long lasting agreements to end the current disputes and future tensions of trade that benefit everybody.

2025 Crisis Committees

Crisis Committees are fast-paced simulations that place delegates in high-stakes historical, fictional, or fantastical scenarios where quick thinking and adaptability are essential. As events evolve in real time, delegates must collaborate, strategize, and respond creatively to unexpected developments, including through crisis notes sent outside of committee. These committees offer an exciting and immersive problem-solving experience and are especially well suited for experienced delegates.

The V.F.D. Emergency Summit on Ethics, Power, and Survival

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Committee: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Topic: The V.F.D. Emergency Summit on Ethics, Power, and Survival
Director: Jenna Abdallah
Chair: Milla Jätfors and Aofie Mythen

The V.F.D., once founded to protect knowledge and prevent disaster, has fractured between idealists and pragmatists. As the organization faces internal collapse, public distrust, and the rising influence of Count Olaf’s faction, an emergency summit is called in the Mortmain Mountains. With the orphans scattered and tensions high, delegates must confront whether V.F.D. can be saved, and at what moral cost, before the Baudelaires vanish and chaos escalates.

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Drama and Scandal of New York’s Finest

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Committee: Gossip Girl Committee
Topic: Drama and Scandal of New York’s Finest
Director: Luna Riva
Chair: Gabby Aboutaam

Welcome to The Legacy League, an exclusive, unofficial council of Manhattan’s most powerful young elites, descendants of CEOs, politicians, media icons, and old-money royalty. Formed under “preserving tradition and order” among New York's high society, the League operates in secret as scandals explode across the city, exposing bribery, backdoor deals, and personal betrayals.

Jayson Blair

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Committee: NYT Board of Directors 2003
Topic: Jayson Blair
Director: Brendan Gieseke
Chair: Alma Laine

In 2003, the former New York Times journalist, Jayson Blair, was exposed for his lies and cunning ways of elevating his career. Fabricating stories, scenes, and quotes, his lies brought havoc to the New York Times, and the field of Journalism. Who could have been working together with Blair? Who’s hands does the blame lie?

A Rift in the Spider-Verse Space-Time Continuum

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Committee: The Spider-Verse:
Topic: A Rift in the Spider-Verse Space-Time Continuum
Director: Isabel Brewer
Chair: Noelle Schulze

The entirety of the Spider multiverse has become unstable. With Spider-Variants and canon events being disrupted, the alternate realities are left in need of guidance. Anomalies, villainous forces, and clash of events are not only threatening individual timelines, but the Spider verse time continuum. Rising tensions, terrifying new threats, will the Spider-Verse remain unified, or will it unweb under the pressure?

Dissolution and Diplomacy in the Balkans

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Committee: Yugoslavia 1991
Topic: Dissolution and Diplomacy in the Balkans
Director: Dora Dulge
Chair: Naomi Abiy

In 1991, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begins to collapse under the weight of growing nationalism, economic instability, and rising ethnic tensions. As Slovenia and Croatia declare independence, the fragile unity of the Balkans shatters, and a complex web of conflict, diplomacy, and violence unfolds. The future of the Balkans and the credibility of global diplomacy rests in delegates’ hands.

The War for Independence

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Committee: The American Colonial Revolution
Topic: The War for Independence
Director: Henri Cohn
Loyalist Chair: Madison McWilliams
Patriots Chair: Ray Bonneau

This Joint-Crisis Committee focuses on the Revolutionary War that shaped the American Country as known today. One committee consists of British royals, and the consists of the American patriots. The committee begins with the Boston Tea Party, creating high tensions. The two committees try to find a peaceful solution to the problem.

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2025 Specialized Committees

Specialized committees are similar to the traditional General Assembly (GA) format of a committee, except that instead of countries, delegates will represent different entities or characters. Specialized issues often focus on different formats of delegates (e.g., politicians or companies). Some issues that can be found within our conference include threats of nuclear war, the fall of famous empires, tariff wars, and newly discovered viruses affecting the global population.

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Cheong Ah-Lum’s Poison Trial, Hong Kong’s Economy in Crisis

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Committee: Joint British-Chinese Council on Governance and Commerce (JBCC)
Topic: Cheong Ah-Lum’s Poison Trial and Hong Kong’s Economy in Crisis
Director: Angelina So
Chair: Audrey Schottland

Britain has just won the First Opium War (1839-1842), so representatives from the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty convene in a lengthy negotiation. Britain's primary goals are to secure unrestricted trade rights, especially in opium, tea, and silk, demand war reparations, and most importantly, secure Hong Kong Island as a British port. The Qing Dynasty's goals to reduce territorial loss, contain the opium trade, and preserve the dynasty's rule. What will be the fate of Hong Kong? Will it fall into colonial hands, or can sovereignty be preserved?

COVID-19 Crisis

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Committee: Joe Biden’s Presidential Cabinet
Topic: COVID-19 Crisis
Chair: Rocco Suriano

This committee explores the COVID-19 Pandemic, specifically Biden's inheritance of the crisis. Delegates have to navigate through the rough scene of this pandemic, finding solutions to aid in its mediation. Delegates engage in profound discussions revolving how to stabilize economic recovery, restore public trust in institutions, and coordinate a proper response to the emergency.

Note that this committee has no backroom.

Cuban Missile Crisis

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Committee: UN Security Council 1962
Topic: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Director: Emil Tuniewicz
Chair: Girumkal Allehone

It's October 1962. The United States Air Force has discovered Soviet missiles and missile construction sites in Cuba, just 90 miles of the coast of Florida. The USSR has denied the presence of any offensive weapons and Cuba's priorities lie in self-defense and maintaining sovereignty. The UN Secretary General has called for an emergency, unprecedented, closed door session between the US, USSR, Cuba, and a few other relevant players. The council must act quick to avoid imminent nuclear danger.

The merciless punishment or honorable praise of Brutus, Cassius and the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar

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Committee: The Roman Senate
Topic: The merciless punishment or honorable praise of Brutus, Cassius and the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar
Director: Gala Pizarro
Chair: Ignacio Torres

Rome has fallen into chaos, after the Roman Republic’s dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by his 60 fellow senators as part of a conspiracy led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. As political tensions between the people of Rome alongside politicans greaten, delegates and members of the Roman Senate must address the pressing consequences following the death of Julius Caesar.

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2025 General Assemblies

Unemployment in the Age of AI

Economic Development in Post-Conflict Nations

Le droit international humanitaire en temps de guerre

Sex Work and Prostitution

Synthetic Drugs and Dark Web Trafficking: A New Age of Narcotics

Mitigating Trade Tensions Through Tariff Reform and Multilateral Economic Cooperation

2025 Crisis Committees

The V.F.D. Emergency Summit on Ethics, Power, and Survival

Drama and Scandal of New York’s Finest

Jayson Blair

A Rift in the Spider-Verse Space-Time Continuum

Dissolution and Diplomacy in the Balkans

The War for Independence

2025 Specialized Committees

Ad Hoc

Cheong Ah-Lum’s Poison Trial, Hong Kong’s Economy in Crisis

COVID-19 Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

The merciless punishment or honorable praise of Brutus, Cassius and the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar

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