Creativity+and+Service+-+GEMUN'

In GeMUN I am representing Greenpeace in the Mediterranean Conference. There are five of us that represent Greenpeace, but every person gets their own research to do. GeMUN is on the end of February. All the topics are:  **Humanitarian and social committee, GA (3rd SOCHUM) ** **Special conference on Common Progress (SPECON)** **Environment Commission (EnvCom) ** Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) * Assuring high standards of quality in products sold world wide **Mediterranean Conference (MedCon)** **Security Council (SC) ** **Economic and Financial committee **
 * **GeMUN 2011 Agenda** ||  **GeUniMUN 2011 Agenda**  ||
 * **Disarmament and International Security Committee, GA (1st DISEC) **
 * Condemning the illegal arms trade in the DRC/ East Africa.
 * The use of cyber war in conflicts.
 * Regulating the use of unmanned aerial weapons.
 * Promoting the rights of children in armed and ethnic conflicts
 * Issues of gender gap and empowerment of women
 * Protecting and granting rights to homosexuals
 * Safety issues and working conditions of guest workers
 * Improving global response to biological threats and disease
 * Devising measures to rise standards of education worldwide
 * Measures for controlling overfishing and protecting marine biodiversity
 * Promoting a proper and controlled use of biotechnology
 * Preventing risks of deep sea oil drilling
 * Reducing poverty by developing a local sources based economy in a global competition framework
 * The consequences of the recent external debt crisis in MDCs
 * Consequences of climate change on water quality in the Mediterranean Sea
 * Fighting criminal organizations in the Mediterranean Sea
 * Open Agenda
 * The situation in North Corea
 * The situation in the Middle East
 * Open Agenda || **Special Decolonization and Political Committee - University (GA 4th) **
 * The dispute over Nagorno-Karabah and the Naxcivan territory and its effects on the relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan
 * The right of self-determination and its implications for the international community, focusing in particular on colonial countries
 * The political situation in Sudan
 * Supporting agricultural technology innovations
 * The economic and financial effects of the Pakistan’s crisis
 * Measures to control the current financial and economic crisis on foreign investment ||

The Greenpeace notes that we already have are:

 GEOGRAPHY OF GREENPEACE: Location (Headquarters): It is a global environmental organisation. The Stichting Greenpeace council is located in Amsterdam and is called Greenpeace International; worldwide, in 41 countries, there are 28 national and regional offices.-Greenpeace’s international office is in Amsterdam, Netherlands

-Other than that, there is a special section of Greenpeace in: Africa/ Argentina/ Australia/ Pacific/ Belgium/ Brazil/ Canada/ Central or Eastern Europe/ Chile/ Czech Republic/ Denmark/ East Asia/ Finland/ France/ Germany/ Greece/ India/ Italy/ Japan/ Luxembourg/ Mediterranean/ Mexico/ Netherlands/ New Zealand/ Norway/ Portugal/ Russia/ Southeast Asia/ Spain/ Sweden/ Switzerland/ UK/ USA

STRUCTURE OF GREENPEACE: -The general overview is also described in the geography -There are supporters and donors but no officers -The local offices of Greenpeace are permitted to bear Greenpeace’s name if they campaign locally, internationally, and support international campaigns. - Greenpeace is an Non-Govermental Organisation (NGO) - By 2009 statistics, Greenpeace has about 2.9 million supporters

HISTORY OF GREENPEACE: Established: In 1971, a new committee was established - Don’t Make a Wave. Its only objective was to stop a second nuclear weapons test which would take place at Amchitka Island in the Auletians. (Members: Dorothy and Irvin Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe, Bob Hunter). -1971: the founders of Greenpeace, a few people with the belief that a few individuals can save the world, sailed out on an old boat to the Pacific in order to reach the Amchitka - an island next to Alaska. Their goal was to get attention: Amchitka was the last refuge place for the sea otters and other rare wildlife representatives. Their boat did not end up in Alaska, but they got the global attention and since then Greenpeace has been expanding. Later, Amchitka was made a bird sanctuary, which caused the nuclear testing to stop. [|(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/history/] ; []) -1976: the Greenpeace Manifesto is completed. “The Greenpeace Foundation hopes to stimulate practical, intelligent actions to stem the tide of planetary destruction. We are 'rainbow people' representing every race,every nation, every living creature. We are patriots, not of any one nation, state or military alliance, but of the entire Earth.” (From the Greenpeace Manifesto) Originally, Greenpeace was named Don’t Make A Wave. This was because of the popular concern that the nuclear tests that could take place in the unstable Amchitka could cause earthquakes and large tidal waves. In 1969 10,000 people blocked a major US-Canadian border crossing, carrying placards which read: "Don't Make a Wave. It's Your Fault if Our Fault Goes” (quote from []). Later in the years, Greenpeace continued its campaign - often in a similar way to the original voyage. An example of this is the nuclear testing in the sea (not sure which) performed by the french. The greenpeace members strolled out into the sea, and though forcibly removed, the attention was brought to the problem. The following paragraphs are quotes from []. Those are some historical documentations of the failures Greenpeace faced in the conflict of stopping the nuclear testing. 
 * In 1975 France ended atmospheric tests in the South Pacific after Greenpeace protests at the test site.
 * In 1985, French nuclear testing in the South Pacific again became the subject of international controversy, particularly following the sinking of Greenpeace's ship, the Rainbow Warrior, by the French Secret Services.
 * In 1992, France cancelled nuclear tests at Moruroa Atoll, following the Rainbow Warrior visit to the test zone, and vows to halt altogether if other nuclear nations follow suit.
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