249 students participate in a new edition of model of the United Nations of the University of Navarra.

249 students from the University of Navarra, IE and ESADE are participating in congress UNMUN, the academic center's United Nations model . Until tomorrow, Saturday, the classrooms of the University's Amigos Building will become the scene of committees where students will debate as if they were UN delegates representing different countries.

The dean of the School Law School, Mercedes Galán, chaired the inaugural session that took place at classroom Magna and was attended by Antonio Sánchez-Benedito, ambassador at mission statement special for the Sahel and the Africa Plan. Sánchez-Benedito pointed out to the students some of the challenges they will have to face, such as the regulation of artificial intelligence and its employment in subject security and defense, and disinformation.

In this sense, he encouraged them in"the search for truth and authenticity to face an increasingly polarized society". Sánchez-Benedito then made an X-ray of the international geopolitical status that will take place during this year. "This 2024 we expect more weapons and more ballot boxes," he said. He thus referred to the conflicts between Ukraine and Russia; the status in the Middle East and in the Sahel, which is today the most violent point of the planet from the point of view of terrorist attacks. Sánchez-Benedito urged students to keep an eye on the elections in the United States and the upcoming June elections in the European Union, which will put the strength of the EU as a common entity in the face of populist movements at test .

educational activity The dean of the School Law School, Mercedes Galán, then spoke to highlight UNMUN as an enriching experience for all participants, professors and students. "The United Nations model , with the participation of students from different Degrees and nationalities, offers an interdisciplinary look and variety of approaches with which any activity should be faced. It is an enriching work and financial aid to open the mind and spirit to other perspectives," he said.

Mercedes Galán also highlighted the richness of the topics to be dealt with in each of the eight committees (General Assembly, International Court of Justice, Disarmament and International Security Commission, Human Rights, committee Economic and Social, committee Crisis and World Health Organization), ranging from the ethical and security challenges in military interventions, the global strategy for the prevention and containment of pandemics and new strains, the protection of personal data in the face of the growing presence of governments and non-state groups in the virtual world, the case of Israel and Palestine or the American wars of independence.