IMUN - ISRAEL - JERUSALEM

IMUN originated from a long tradition of preparatory debates for The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN) between the Carlucci American International School of Lisbon and the American International School of Madrid, meeting "halfway" in Merida, Spain. IMUN now stands on its own, in affiliation with THIMUN. The IMUN conferences are now held at here at CAISL and Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Lisbon, Portugal. "Out-of-Lisbon" students may stay at specially priced rooms at the Estoril Eden Hotel.

In the conference of 2009, IMUN brought together delegations from 20 schools throughout the Iberian Peninsula, Austria, Israel, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, and Switzerland comprising 305 delegates and representing 193 delegations.

The IMUN conference promotes a myriad of skills which our limited size greatly facilitates. IMUN views itself as providing a supportive environment in which student delegates can develop their diplomatic, consensus building skills. The majority of participating schools later participate in the January THIMUN conference held in The Hague.

IMUN seeks to cultivate an appreciation of the complexity of the world's problems and the challenges that we face in solving them. Through a combination of written resolutions, debate, speeches and lobbying, delegates seek consensus. In recognition of these immense challenges, IMUN places emphasis upon the process of achieving resolution to the actual UN agenda issues, rather than the final product which, in fact, very much reflects the historical reality of the United Nations.