- Content
- Objective: Define a position and elaborate a strategy (for South Africa) concerning how the UNSC should handle the current situation in Yemen
- Paper
should cover 3 elements
- Objectives: What South Africa is trying to achieve
- Red lines: What South Africa is trying to avoid
- Tactics/Recommendations:
How your country should go about negotiations
- 1 recommendation per page (3 pages total)
- Put recommendations in italics at the end of intro/objectives
- Citation Style: in-text
- State South Africa’s national interest, how it applies to the context of Yemen war in UNSC, and make actionable recommendations to support that interest
- Think about repercussions of certain recommendations in the real world after conference
- Style
- Assume writing to busy decision-maker
- Short, crisp, concise
- To the point
- Writing to intelligent non-specialist
- Short intro, no conclusion
- Needs
to be argumentative– take a position that’s backed up by evidence
- Not for public conception, private for government apparatus
- Memo should be instructions for ambassador
- Use one page per recommendation
- “This is South Africa’s interest, this is how it applies in Yemen, this is recommendation for action at the Security Council”
- Needs to be actionable in the UN
- Research:
- South Africa’s foreign policy
- Security Council politics and tools of intervention
- The particular issue of Yemen and its ongoing developments
- Consult examples of past resolutions online
- Helpful
links
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22884&LangID=E
- https://www.msf.org/yemen
