League of Our Own: Creating a Model United Nations Scrimmage Conference

Ripley, Brian; Carter, Neal; Grove, Andrea

doi:10.1080/15512160802611963

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“…In the first place, and in line with previous analyses (Taylor 2013;Ripley et al 2009;Brunazzo and Settembri 2012), the benefits of simulation are confirmed by the increase in factual knowledge about IR issues, after attending the training course and (mainly) participating in the NMUNÁNY. These benefits are especially true for those students who had not attended any conventional course in IR before the simulation.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Coughlin (2013) has studied the relationship between simulation participation style and gender. Ripley et al (2009) identify the difficulties (not only organizational) linked to both small and big scale simulations, advocating the organization of middle-scale MUN intercollegiate conferences. However, the perceptions that have been investigated in the two above-mentioned papers concern the students' impressions about the usefulness of simulations as didactic tools or as a stimulator of students' interest in studying IR.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, the majority of scholars have highlighted the benefits of simulations. 2 Besides the general rewards of simulations, Ripley et al (2009) state that, in many ways, MUN represents the quintessential example of ''active learning'' pedagogy in the field of international relations. According to these authors, the benefits of MUN can be divided into two main categories: substantive learning and skill development.…”

Section: Simulations and Irmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Students’ knowledge and perceptions of international relations and the ‘Model United Nations’: an empirical analysis

Calossi

Coticchia

2017

Acta Polit

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Unconventional learning activities such as games and simulations have been widely used as teaching tools in international relations (IR) in the recent years. The literature on simulations and student learning has often highlighted a lack of empirical evidence in the existing research. The paper aims at providing empirical support to illustrate the ways in which simulations might influence students' levels of (factual and self-evaluated) knowledge and perceptions of IR. The study is based on extensive empirical material, collected through questionnaires submitted to 298 students who participated in the 2014 edition of the National Model United Nations in New York (NMUNÁNY). Keywords Simulation Á Model United Nations Á Perceptions Á Knowledge Á IR Despite the growing use of games and simulations as teaching methods in international relations (IR), the existing research has produced a limited number of empirical studies (Giovanello et al. 2013). ''Although many educators realise the potential benefits of games and simulations as pedagogical tools, few researchers have examined their use empirically'' (Garard et al. 1998, p. 42). In addition, the current empirical studies deal more frequently with students' evaluation of the simulation itself rather than with the actual change in the level of knowledge or of perceptions that students experience during the simulation. On the contrary, this paper addresses how and to what extent participating in a simulation affects & Fabrizio Coticchia

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Section: Simulations and Irmentioning

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Students’ knowledge and perceptions of international relations and the ‘Model United Nations’: an empirical analysis

Calossi

Coticchia

2017

Acta Polit

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“…4. For a broad review of the literature on simulations and IR, see, among others: Lantis (1998); Shellman and Turan (2006); Ripley et al (2009), Brunazzo and Settembri (2012), Giovanello et al (2013); Ehralnder and Boylan (2017), Y et al (2019). 5.…”

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I love this game: the interplay between experience and background in role-playing simulations: insights from MUN participants in Italy and the Netherlands

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“…The simulation is promoted by a range of actors, from the United Nations itself 2 to the World Federation of United Nations Associations, 3 and similar simulations are promoted by regional organisations such as NATO and the European Union. 4 Students can start doing MUN while in middle school, and continue through college and graduate school. Four hundred thousand students per year participate in MUN conferences 5 ; some of them are doing MUN for course credit, while others do it as an extracurricular activity.…”

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Humour at the Model United Nations: The Role of Laughter in Constituting Geopolitical Assemblages

Dittmer

2013

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Model United Nations (MUN) is a simulation in which studentstake on the roles of ambassadors to the United Nations, engaging in debate on 'real' issues from the perspective of their assumed national identities. This paper, based on a year of ethnography and interviews of a college-level MUN team, examines the role of humour in producing particular geopolitical imaginations among those participating and also in producing the MUN assemblage itself. Key here is the circulation of affects among participants' bodies, producing an orientation among them that facilitates debate and consensus-building. This finding is seen as a corrective to past work on geopolitics and humour, which has tended to emphasise irony and satire, as well as mass-mediated humor.

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League of Our Own: Creating a Model United Nations Scrimmage Conference

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Students’ knowledge and perceptions of international relations and the ‘Model United Nations’: an empirical analysis

Students’ knowledge and perceptions of international relations and the ‘Model United Nations’: an empirical analysis

I love this game: the interplay between experience and background in role-playing simulations: insights from MUN participants in Italy and the Netherlands

Humour at the Model United Nations: The Role of Laughter in Constituting Geopolitical Assemblages

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