Stockholm Model United Nations

each fall the stockholm model united nations (smun) conference attracts an ever increasing number of top university students from both sweden and abroad. these students, who represent the very best in their respective fields of study, are selected through a competitive application process, to participate as delegates in a simulation of the negotiations taking place within the un and other international organisations. smun brings together university students for active discussion and engagement in issues of world politics. the conferences demand much of the students, in terms of knowledge and diplomatic skills; the pay-off, however, is one which benefits the participating delegates for the rest of their lives. smun sets the framework within which interest is turned into involvement, and theory is turned into practice. a mun conference is structured as a scenario based simulation, meant to educate and train the participants in fields of civics, communications, and multilateral diplom