WORKING PAPERS
Working papers are used to collect and circulate delegate ideas. The ideas in a
working paper are debated and eventually moulded into formal documents written in the style
of actual UN resolutions. After a formal introduction in committee, resolutions are debated,
amended, and voted on by the body. Passed resolutions represent hours of debate,
negotiation, and compromise.
A Working Paper may be introduced on the Floor at any point of time after viable
solutions have emerged. This document is a rough draft of the solutions that the committee
members wish to recommend for the agenda at hand. It has no format as such. More than one
Working Paper can be made in a committee. A working paper has only signatories, not
sponsors.
What are Signatories ? - Countries that want the Document to be discussed in the committee.
What are sponsors ? - Fancy word for authors of the final document of the committee.
COMMITTEE NAME
SESSION
AGENDA
SAMPLE WORKING PAPER
AUTHOR/S
1. Recommends that a three-level information interchange system be established on the
National, Regional, and International levels to ameliorate the current problems of
news flow imbalance, operating as follows:
a. Each region’s member nations will report their national information and
receive the information of other nations in their region from the regional level
of this interchange system;
b. Nations will decide the character of the news flow media best suited to the
need of their sovereign territory, be this printed, audio, or audio visual;
c. Regional News Gathering Agencies will serve to gather information from the
nations in their region, and these boards will have no editorial discretion and
will serve to forward all information to the International Board;
d. Each regional agency will be composed of representatives from every member
nation of the region;
e. The primary function of the International Board will be to translate
information accumulated from the regional news gathering agencies;
f. The secondary purpose will be to transmit all information gathered back to the
member nations via the regional news gathering agencies;
g. In order to expedite the transfer of information from the international to
regional level the International Board will utilize a UN frequency on an EEC
(European Economic Community) satellite;
2. Urges the establishment of the University of International Communications, with
main branch in Geneva, Switzerland, and additional branches located in each of the
aforementioned regions, to pursue the following aims:
a. The University and branches will be established with the express purpose of
bringing together world views and facilitating the transfer of technology;
b. All member nations of the United Nations will be equally represented at the
University;
c. Incentives will be offered to students of journalism and communications at the
University to return to their countries to teach upon completion of instruction;
d. The instructors of the regional education centres will be comprised of a
multi-partisan coalition of educators from throughout the world;
3. Calls for the continued use of funds from the International Program for the
Development of Communications, Special Account, UNESCO, the UNDP, and other
sources of funding including national governments and private donors;
4. Further recommends that the distribution of funds be decided by the IPDC.
