Rimun, the annual simulation of the United Nations held at the liceo Farnesina, will be held on March 27-31, 2009. About two hundred students from around the world will meet and spend four days discussing lobbying committee work, general assemblies, resolution writing, amendments as well as the closing ceremony.
As in the last edition (April 2008), the students have been working since September, meeting once a week, learning about UN procedures, how to address the chair and other delegates and how to propose an amendment to the final resolution as well as studying the actual positions of various countries. All the work is coordinated by the English teacher, Ms. Anna Amato.
All these activities are carried out in a small classroom equipped with on-line PCs called the Europe Room. This room, which is the heart of the school’s intercultural activities, also hosts the archives with all of the school’s contacts, forms and correspondence with foreign partners.
Last year’s final event, the simulation of a UN Session lasting five days, featured the participation of 70 students as delegates of UN member states and forty acting as organisational staff. One hundred and twenty students arrived in Rome from nine different European countries, including Russia, Germany, Poland, Cyprus and France. Their common language was English.
Exordium, narratio, argumentatio, peroratio… in the last issue of the school newspaper, Il Rotolo, three students, Soraya Olan, Stefania Mastrantonio and Elisabetta Pappalardo wrote the article entitled Screening a Resolution in which they describe the fundamental rules for creating a good resolution starting from Cicero’s rhetoric.
