Topic 1: Advancing Clean Industrial Technology

As nations pursue ambitious industrial diversification strategies (e.g. the UAE's Operation 300Bn or Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030), innovations in material science are becoming increasingly important. From hydrogen-based steelmaking to nanomaterials that reduce energy use, such research can help decarbonise manufacturing without compromising growth. Delegates must tackle key challenges including high capital costs, limited regional research capacities and technological dependencies on foreign suppliers. This topic demands a focus on how nations can create policy environments that encourage sustainable industrial transformation. Delegates will debate the role of public investment, cross-border R&D platforms, and intellectual property reforms in advancing clean technology.

Topic 2: AI in the Public Sector

Artificial intelligence has begun to reshape how governments operate, with applications ranging from predictive analytics in public health to AI-driven chatbots for citizen services. In regions facing governance capacity gaps, including parts of the Global South, AI can serve as a force multiplier by streamlining bureaucratic processes, enhancing service delivery, and enabling data-driven policy interventions. These benefits hinge, however, on careful implementation. Many countries lack the regulatory frameworks, skilled workforce, and ethical guardrails necessary to deploy AI in a manner that is transparent and secure.

This topic centers around how AI can be responsibly leveraged by the public sector for developmental gains. Key issues include the procurement of AI systems, algorithmic bias in public decision-making, open data ecosystems, and international collaboration on AI governance. Delegates must weigh the risks – whether political, social, economic, or ethical – of increasingly digitized governance with the potential for more efficient policy responses.

Topic 1: Stateless Refugees

Stateless refugees and undocumented individuals face significant legal and humanitarian challenges within current refugee and asylum systems. Without recognized citizenship, these individuals often lack access to formal protections, documentation, and basic freedom from human rights abuses. This committee aims to strengthen systems of protection for stateless refugees worldwide – from reassessing the current Statelessness Conventions to reforming national laws. Delegates will debate how the UNHCR can collaborate with Member States and NGOs to expand frameworks for legal status determination, improve access to basic services (such as education, employment, and healthcare), and establish equity in processes like resettlement, local integration, voluntary repatriation, and naturalization.

Topic 2: Climate Displacement

As climate change propels natural crises such as worsening droughts, extreme heat, and water scarcity, individuals and entire communities are increasingly uprooted. As migrants search for security and stability, this phenomenon of climate displacement has led to an ever-growing international population at risk of poverty and statelessness. This committee will explore both reactive and preventative policy solutions to displacement rooted in climate insecurity. Delegates will assess how regional cooperation, sustainable resource management, and legal protections for those not covered under traditional refugee frameworks can ameliorate displacement from environmental stressors. An emphasis will be placed on funding mechanisms, adaptation strategies, and balancing humanitarian obligations with climate resilience.

Topic 1: Education in Conflict Zones

This committee will explore how to protect education in areas affected by armed conflict, where millions of children are forced to flee, drop out, or attend school under dangerous conditions.
Despite typically being a stabilizing force, education is often targeted or politicized in conflict zones, with cultural values, political agendas, military strategies, and international law all playing complex roles.
At the heart of this committee’s debate is the challenge of preventing attacks on schools and ensuring children’s right to safe, uninterrupted learning. In addition to creating systems of accountability, delegates must also consider who should be responsible for managing education in war zones—especially when those zones are controlled or disrupted by aggressive or occupying forces. The goal is to ensure education continues securely and equitably — even in the most fragile and dangerous environments.

Topic 2: Integrating Media Literacy into National Curricula to Combat Misinformation

In a world where misinformation spreads rapidly across digital platforms, this committee will examine how education systems can respond by embedding media literacy into national curricula. As a global issue – impacting students, educators, and societies at large – misinformation can influence public opinion, undermine democratic processes, and endanger public health and safety. Cultural norms, political agendas, and access to technology all influence how media is consumed—and how truth is understood.
This committee’s debate centers on how best to equip students with the critical thinking skills needed to evaluate information, recognize bias, and navigate complex media landscapes from an early age. Delegates must consider how media literacy can be adapted to different educational contexts and cultural backgrounds, while remaining effective and unbiased. The goal is to create actionable frameworks that empower young people to be informed, responsible digital citizens and to strengthen education as a defense against manipulation and disinformation.

Topic 1: Combating the Spread of Synthetic Drugs

The rapid rise of synthetic drugs—cheap, potent, and easy to produce—poses serious threats to regional and global stability. Unlike plant-based narcotics, these substances can be manufactured anywhere with minimal resources, making them attractive to insurgent groups and criminal networks. Fragile states especially have seen a surge in synthetic drug production, with traffickers using evolving methods like drones and couriers. The spread of new psychoactive substances has overwhelmed under-resourced public health systems and contributed to rising overdose rates, presenting a threat to an increasingly interconnected global order.

In attempting to combat the global spread of synthetic drugs, delegates must work toward coordinated regional responses to disrupt production, dismantle trafficking routes, and strengthen treatment and prevention infrastructure. Delegates should also consider sustainable strategies for enhancing harm reduction and expanding access to treatment, ultimately balancing preventative and regulatory measures.

Topic 2: Disrupting the Illicit Financing of Transnational Organized Crime

​​Transnational organized crime groups rely on vast, complex financial networks to launder profits from illicit activities including drug trafficking, human trafficking, and arms smuggling. Illicit financial flows (IFFs), often comparable to legitimate international trade in value, allow actors to infiltrate licit economies, undermine regional governance, and fund further instability. In conflict-affected regions where vulnerable borders, corruption, illicit economies, and weak regulatory mechanisms persist, organized crime thrives and financing methods often remain undetected. Political fragility, limited cross-border cooperation, and technological loopholes further enable illicit finance.

This committee aims to create international frameworks for monitoring and combatting IFFs – a crucial process for disrupting, prosecuting, and dismantling organized criminal networks. Delegates must focus on developing strategies to trace, freeze, and recover criminal assets while strengthening regional cooperation and financial oversight mechanisms. Collaboration between national law enforcement, global financial institutions, and international bodies like the UNODC should be leveraged to feasibly disrupt these foundations of transnational crime.

Topic 1: Global Digital Infrastructure Governance

As global powers race to shape the future of digital infrastructure, initiatives like China’s Digital Silk Road, the EU’s Global Gateway, and the U.S. Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment are transforming digital ecosystems across continents. From 5G networks and AI systems to cloud computing and telecommunications, the stakes are high. Countries across the Arab Gulf, South and Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe are navigating a wave of digital development backed by foreign investment, but not without cost. This surge in connectivity brings opportunities for growth and innovation, yet also raises questions about data sovereignty, cybersecurity, and geopolitical influence.
In this committee, delegates will confront the challenges of governing foreign-built digital infrastructure in an increasingly multipolar tech landscape. Can states reap the benefits of global digital cooperation while safeguarding their strategic autonomy? What legal, ethical, and multilateral frameworks are needed to ensure fair, secure, and inclusive digital development? Delegates will explore strategies for responsible digital development and governance.

Topic 2: Green Urban Development in Fossil Fuel States/Economies

As climate change accelerates, carbon-intensive economies around the world face mounting pressure to transition toward sustainability while grappling with long-standing dependencies on fossil fuels. In response, governments are launching high-profile green urban development projects, framing them as blueprints for a sustainable future.
Delegates will explore whether these initiatives represent genuine shifts toward decarbonization or are primarily “greenwashing” efforts aimed at preserving political and economic power under the guise of climate leadership. Delegates must assess how the UNDP and the broader international community can support authentic and sustainable urban development without derailing economies – and those dependent on said economies – heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

Topic 1: Intellectual Direction of the Library

Welcome to the House of Wisdom, also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad! As one of the world’s premier institutions of knowledge, delegates are responsible for preserving and expanding the Library. The year is 815 AD, and the seventh Abbasid caliph has requested the expansion of the Library’s intellectual content as it opens to the public. Scholars, scientists, artists, and local leaders must work together to decide which academic areas should be supported. While scholars may prioritize advancing their own disciplines, local leaders may have alternate political ambitions. Simultaneously, delegates must manage the Library’s contents with care, balancing secrets and censorship with public accessibility. With great knowledge comes great responsibility, and your decisions will shape the future of the House of Wisdom and its reputation on the world stage.

Topic 2: Expanding the House

Beyond its role as an intellectual epicenter, the House of Wisdom is also renowned as a physically splendid symbol of Abbasid prestige. Caliph Al-Ma’mun has recently poured vast resources into restoring the library's grandeur, yet much of the Library remains in disrepair, with much of its infrastructure outdated or decaying. Delegates are tasked with revitalizing this institution: expanding public access, improving literacy, and designing communal spaces that match its scholarly ambition. Though the goals seem benign and straightforward on the surface, troubles continue to embroil the institution. Scrolls vanish without explanation. Fires break out in sealed rooms. Whispers of sabotage and secrecy haunt the stacks. As they build the future of the Library, delegates must confront not only logistical and architectural challenges, but the mystery buried within its walls that threatens the very foundation of the House's mission.