Hello.

Tigard High's MUN Presidents would like to apologize for the lack of communication this fall. Our excuses for our lackadaisical manners are two-fold: we're seniors and have been otherwise occupied with re-organization of the club all fall and also there was a mysterious case of College Applications. Again, we extend our sincerest apologies.

That being said, read on. There's much to do, and more fun than you can handle on the brink of arrival.

Research

Helpful Links to Start Research 
for Position Papers
  1. UN News: http://www.un.org/news/
  2. Italy: http://www.italyun.esteri.it/Rappresentanza_ONU/Menu/L_Italia_e_l_ONU/
  3. Ghana: http://www.un.int/ghana/



(From Oregon MUN website)

1) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ - Overview of country information such as population and government type

2) http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/ - Location of Human Development Index, as well as other Human Development information

3) http://news.bbc.co.uk/ - Location of BBC World News, with individual links for news from regions of the world

4) http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world - Similar to BBC, New York Times World news

5) http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/index_en.htm - Source for information on countries of the European Union as well as the EU in general

6) http://www.atimes.com/ - News source for Asian region, as well as individual countries within

7) http://www.world-newspapers.com/south-america.html - Similar to Asian Times, has fewer available countries

8) http://www.africanews.com/site - News results for Africa region as well as all individual countries

9) http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ - Humanitarian Aid resource site

10) http://www.un.org/documents/ -Location for most major UN Documents. Economic and Social Committee have searches for key words, Security Council and General Assembly documents can only be found by each session


Tips if you are new:

Make sure to always keep in mind that you want information on a topic in general, but also in specific as it relates to your position papers and country, but you’ll also want to know what the UN did and what Nigeria (If that’s your country) did about it.

If you feel overwhelmed by how much research you think a topic will involve, it helps to just focus on one of the smaller subtropics, like what the UN has done.

If you search on google.com (and most people do) advance searches are practically a must. I allows you to avoid searching for things you don’t want (such as a movie about the topic) and specify what sort of sites you want to get information from.

That said, avoid sites from .com sources. Granted, some, like nytimes.com are valid sources, but too many .com sites are someone’s blog or unverifiable sources. Conversely, .gov are always governments (who usually check their sources) and .edu are for educational sites, and you can say with more certainty that their facts are true.
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