A walk through committee from the start of a conference to the finish, in the order you’ll actually encounter it. Read it straight through before your first conference, or jump to whichever stage you’re stuck on.
One thing worth knowing before any of this: MUN has no single global rulebook. The conference you’re attending has its own Rules of Procedure, and thresholds, exact terminology, and what’s allowed can differ from what’s described here. Where that variation is common enough to matter, these pages call it out explicitly, but your conference’s own delegate packet always wins.
- Before the conference: research and your position paper
- Committee basics: roll call, quorum, setting the agenda
- Speeches and the GSL: the General Speakers List, yielding time
- Motions: moderated and unmoderated caucuses, and the rest
- Points: order, personal privilege, inquiry, information
- Motion list: the full reference table of motions and points, and vote thresholds
- Caucusing: what actually happens in a caucus
- Working papers and resolutions: from idea to draft
- Amendments: friendly and unfriendly
- Voting procedure: majorities, roll call votes, abstentions
- Glossary: quick lookup for anything you forget mid-committee
See also: the wiki homepage for the chair track.