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HOW TO WRITE RESOLUTION PAPER

This email provides delegates with essential resources and guidelines for writing effective resolutions for the GHAMUN conference. It outlines the structure of resolutions, including the heading, preambulatory clauses, and operative clauses, as well as the process for submitting and amending resolutions. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of originality and offers links to further resources.

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HOW TO WRITE RESOLUTION PAPER

This email provides delegates with essential resources and guidelines for writing effective resolutions for the GHAMUN conference. It outlines the structure of resolutions, including the heading, preambulatory clauses, and operative clauses, as well as the process for submitting and amending resolutions. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of originality and offers links to further resources.

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Hi!

This is the email I sent to other delegates that will help you a lot with making the clauses,
hope it helps.
Hello Delegates,
I hope you are all well and are preparing for our upcoming GHAMUN conference. It
has come to my attention that we have not shared resources for writing a resolution,
and hence it has become a strenuous task. Hence this email will contain all the
resources you will require to write an effective resolution. This email is very helpful
as in case your resolution is not in the correct format and/or is not up to standard, it
will immediately be rejected.

Each resolution has 3 parts; a heading, preambulatory clauses and operative


clauses.

The Heading
The heading has all the signatories- names of co-submitters and the main submitter.
It also includes the topic of the resolution.

Page number and number of pages at the top right, eg: Page 1 of 2 Committee
name top left
The issue at the top left The name of the sponsor(s) of the resolution at the top left
The co-signers at the top left The UN organism (in italics and indented) e.g: The
General Assembly

Preambulatory Clauses
These state the current situation regarding the topic and/or past actions that have
been taken. These may also include stances that nations have towards certain
issues. You may use appropriate statistics where applicable. Please ensure all your
facts are reliable.

The preambulatory clauses should refer to relevant UN resolutions, precedents in


international law, and points of the UN Charter or other pertinent documents. The
preamble may also include altruistic appeals to common sense or to humanitarian
motivations of the parties, referring to the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, or even specific situations.
Please note that all preambulatory clauses start with specific verbs, and they must
be underlined. Each clause must end with a comma.

These are sample verbs you may choose to begin your preambulatory clauses with.

Unlike the operative clauses of a resolution, preambulatory clauses are not debated
directly by delegates or subject to amendment.

Operative Clauses

Unlike preambulatory clauses, operative clauses list recommendations for action, or


express a favourable or unfavourable perspective on particular aspects of the issue.
These clauses may call for Member States, the Secretariat or a UN agency or body
to take action, which may be either of a broad nature, like denouncing a situation or
a calling for negotiation, or more precise, like calling for a ceasefire or a financial
commitment to a specific project.

Please remember that only the Security Council has binding resolutions, other
committees may only make recommendations.
Before adhering to a resolution, each delegate should ensure that he is acting
in accordance with his country's political will.

Operative clauses begin with an active verb in the present and are ended by a
semicolon. The first word of each operative clause should be underlined. Each
clause is numbered and can be divided into several sub-ideas (a, b, c, d, etc.).

Note: The last operative clause must end in a full stop, as shown below.

Here are some active verbs you may use at the beginning of your operative clauses.
Bear in mind, that some verbs for preambulatory and operative clauses can only be
used by the security council.

As you submit your individual resolution, during the actual conference, delegations
will be required to merge resolutions with allies, and use ideas from your delegation's
resolution to come up with a combined resolution.

Amendments.
Amendments are the changes made in the operative clauses of a resolution. This
can be to either strike or replace a clause completely. Amendments can also be
submitted to add further details to a clause. This could also be done to correct
spelling errors.
Friendly amendments are changes made to the resolution that the main submitter of
the resolution agrees with, and no voting procedure is carried out. It is a mutual
agreement between the amendment submitter and the main submitter.

Unfriendly amendments are where the amendment submitter and main submitter do
not agree on the changes, and hence a voting procedure is carried out. If majority
votes for the amendment to pass, the changes are made immediately. If not, then
the operative clause is left untouched.

Below is an example of how an amendment is submitted.

I would like to remind delegates that plagiarism will not be tolerated.

I hope you find this email helpful, if you have any questions do not hesitate to email
me or Yashsavi at any time. I strongly urge you to carry out your own research as
well. For your aid, I will be attaching below, a completed sample resolution, our
GHAMUN handbook, and a link to a helpful website.

The link: https://bestdelegate.com/model-un-made-easy-how-to-write-a-resolution/

Thank you, and I hope you all have a great day ahead.
Regards,
Chesper Tunga

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