Rediscovering
the Overlooked

It is our great privilege and honor to welcome you to the first on-campus JIS Model United Nations. We are beyond grateful to have the opportunity to be here with our wonderful team, as we strive to set a solid and sturdy foundation for, hopefully, both this MUN and many more to come.

Dear delegates, students, and peers. As the whole world is rapidly growing more and more aware, and as scientists and historians have been warning for decades, we are all rapidly approaching the crisis point of the culmination of many a catastrophe at once. Each and every one of our homes face the global challenge of unprecedented conflict- more horrific, complex, and interwoven than ever before. All the unresolved fights of generations past are our own, now, and we must keep them from falling into the hands of the next before it is too late for them, too.

We are not the first to suffer, to lose ourselves in catastrophe, or to fear the loss of the future altogether. But it is our duty to every soul who hasn’t yet had their chance to live to try our very best to be the last. That is why the UN was founded, and that is why we are coming together now, in this conference t o try and find a way to achieve. To pull out the rotten roots society has tried to bury, forgetting that rot always finds a way to spread, and that to cure it, the contagion must be eradicated.

To that end, I hope you will all be able to put your all into this event, leaving with not only the conviction that this world can truly grow to heal and break free of its shackles but likewise, a determination to see it happen.

We are eagerly looking forward to hosting you all in January.

Best regards,
Saima Mujeebuddin and Noor Aly Khaled,
Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General,
Jubail International School Model United Nations 2023