General Assembly

First Committee: Disarmament and International Security
Third Committee: Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural
Fourth Committee: Special Political and Decolonization
Sixth Committee: Legal

All member states of the United Nations are represented on the General Assembly, which debates issues of mutual importance through UPMUNC's four regular committees. This year, the UPMUNC General Assembly is composed of four returning 2009 committees, some of the staples of UPMUNC.

Economic and Social Council Committees and Specialized Agencies

International Monetary Fund**
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations Development Programme*
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Union for the Mediterranean*

The committees of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Specialized Agencies discuss crucial nonpolitical issues in a smaller forum, comprising of roughly fifty states. ECOSOC itself was established under the UN Charter as the principal organ to coordinate economic, social, and related work of the fourteen UN specialized agencies, functional commissions, and five regional commissions. New additions this year include the International Monetary Fund, the UN Development Programme, and for the first time ever at UPMUNC, the Union for the Mediterranean - three very pertinent committees given the present global state of affairs.

Crisis Committees

Security Council of the United Nations
ad hoc Committee of the Secretary-General**
The Aztec Empire*
Anglo / Boer War (Second South African War)*
Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland*
The Vietnamese Quagmire*
Weimar Germany*
Drug Cartels*
UN Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency                    Response (UN SPIDER)*
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas*
The West Wing*

Two of UPMUNC's greatest assets are the creativity and dynamism of its crisis committees, each of which is managed by no fewer than ten staff members to simulate past, present, and future crises. These crises are undoubtedly our most exciting committees. The time-honored Security Council once again headlines our crisis committees, as delegates react to events immediately threatening international peace and security. The ad hoc Committee, a concept pioneered by UPMUNC, continues as one of our staple simulations.

But this year, UPMUNC looks to offer a wider array of committees than ever before. These include the Aztec Empire, set in 1519 and tracing Cortés's Spanish invasion. In Weimar Germany, delegates will have the chance to halt Hitler's rise to power long before he can become a threat to humanity. And meanwhile, up and coming narcotraficantes will have the chance to create a Mexican drug cartel and carve out profits in the midst of constant threats from competing cartels and government intervention. Through the futuristic UN SPIDER program, delegates will face a dying, polluted, and overcrowded planet and look to outer space for salvation. And in the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, politics will rule as South America grasps with a power vacuum.