Collaboration and Compromise at MUN Conference

On Saturday, March 2, King’s hosted their annual Model United Nations (MUN) conference on the theme of Collaboration and Compromise, welcoming delegates from five schools for a day of lively debate

KSCMUN 2025 was opened by Secretary General, Rachel Joseph (5DUT) who took great pleasure in introducing keynote speaker, and former King’s student, John Everard (OKS 1974).

John joined the conference by video to talk about his fascinating career in international relations that included a stint as British ambassador to North Korea, and as a UN advisor. Delegates were enthralled by his recollections of his time in North Korea and his reflections of the future on the country and its regime. 

Mrs Collier coordinates MUN at King’s and congratulated all delegates on a successful conference. 

She said: “Today’s conference has been a huge success and that is in no small way thanks to the dedication, hard work and impeccable organisation of Rachel, Dhyan and their team. For most of them, this was their first time organising an event on this scale and they have done a wonderful job.

“MUN is so important as it requires young people to not just to research and understand global issues, but to see them through the eyes of other nations and other people. I believe that this is more important than ever and it has been a joy to spend the day with so many young people who feel the same.

“Thank you to the delegates from Stonyhurst College, Wirral Grammar School for Girls, Concord College and the Queen’s School Chester for joining us at KSCMUN and making it such a success.”

During the conference, delegates were joined by young reporters from our Journalism Club. We are grateful to Removes pupils Tegan Graham (RMSC) and Jasmine Phillips (RMSC) for this account of the day and, as first time attendees at an MUN conference, their thoughts on Model United Nations:

MUN ( Model United Nations) is a society that simulates the United Nations. In MUN, political based topics are discussed ‘around the world’.

This year, the topics included human rights, historical security, politics, world health, and environmental science. Throughout the day, the representatives listened to a speech from Mrs Collier and Mr Prest. Another speech was made by Rachel Joseph who spoke about why we had gathered at this meeting, which was to celebrate diplomacy (The communication by representatives of state, intergovernmental, or non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international system), and to pursue some of the issues that the global community are facing. In my opinion – as a year 7 student – Rachel was encouraging and inspiring throughout the whole of her speech.

MUN helps to improve confidence and social skills and being able to interact with other schools is a very good life skill to have. So, are you interested? Contact Mrs Collier for more information and you never know, maybe you could be one of those representatives next time!

Pictured here are some of the delegates from the King’s School Chester.