MUNCH XXVII Committees:
Our team is thrilled to offer the following committees for the MUNCH XXVII Conference!
Keep an eye on the Instagram @munchcira for some more detailed committee spotlights.
New for our 2027 Slate:
This year, instead of having a Joint Crisis Committee (JCC), we are instead offering a Joint General Assemblies Plus (JGAP)! Just like a JCC, our JGAP is intended for more experienced delegates. The JGAP will have a combination of crisis-style committee sessions and general-assembly-style committee sessions, so if you’re a delegate who likes both styles, this committee is for you! Do note that this is a double-delegate committee, unlike standard GAPs, which are single-delegate committees.
We have added a Difficulty and Silliness value for each committee so that you can choose committees that best fit your comfort level and interests:
Difficulty Level: scale from least difficult (1 - most beginner-friendly) to most difficult (5 - least beginner-friendly)
Seriousness Scale: scale from least realistic (1 - delegates can think completely out of the box and are can go beyond the boundaries of reality) to most realistic (5 - delegates need to make historically/canonically accurate, realistic ideas / directives / resolutions)
GAs
Our largest committees, General Assemblies work towards creating and passing resolutions that address global issues. Each General Assembly is composed of around 50 delegations. Please note that both single and double delegation formats are offered. Delegates in General Assemblies will gain experience that mimics the negotiations and consensus-building used in policy-making across the world
UNODA
(United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs)
*Double Delegation Format
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 4/5
This specialized committee within DISEC focuses on the critical issues surrounding nuclear non-proliferation and the international policing of modern weapons. Delegates will tackle the challenge of updating international security frameworks to address evolving weapons technologies, enforcement gaps, and global verification standards. Through structured debate, the committee aims to balance national defense needs with the global imperative to prevent conflict and control non-conventional arms. This forum will offer a space to debate high-stakes international security. Delegates will collaborate to draft practical, forward-looking solutions to ensure safety, accountability, and stability across the international weapons community.
WHO
(World Health Organization)
*Double Delegation Format
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 3/5
Across the developing world, a shortage of doctors, laboratories, and hospitals leaves billions without reliable access to care. Digital health tools—diagnostic algorithms that read scans where no radiologist practices, technology that triages patients in remote villages, and predictive systems that anticipate outbreaks before they spread—promise to close that gap. This committee calls on delegates to confront the promise and the peril of the digital health revolution. Representing nations with vastly different capacities and priorities, members must grapple with data privacy and sovereignty, algorithmic bias, equitable access, infrastructure gaps, and the ethics of deploying experimental tools on vulnerable populations. Your challenge: to craft a framework that harnesses AI to save lives while ensuring that the world's most fragile health systems are protected, not exploited, in the process.
UNEP
(United Nations Environment Programme
)
*Double Delegation Format
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 2/5
Water knows no borders! As rivers, lakes, aquifers, and other transboundary water systems flow across nation-states every moment of every day, they carry the contaminants and pollution of upstream neighbors with them. This committee asks what we can do to promote environmental standards across multiple nation-states, and what those standards mean for people’s everyday access to safe and reliable water. Debate will center around political and philosophical compromise, balancing environmental protection with economic development, national sovereignty, and the costs of cooperation. As shared water sources continue to cross borders, what can delegates do to come to an agreement utilizing the funds and willingness to cooperate of those whom they represent? Ultimately, the health, livelihoods, and access to clean water of millions of people rest in delegates' hands.
Communist International
*Double Delegation Format
Difficulty level: 4/5
Seriousness Scale: 3/5
The year is 1928, and Joseph Stalin has finished his consolidation of power in the Soviet Union. He has just called delegates from 57 nations around the globe for the 6th World Congress of the Communist International. The Congress has officially announced the beginning of the "Third Period." This has led to the belief that capitalism is in its final crisis. This shift has led to an aggressive, non-cooperative foreign policy. Delegates in this committee will face a complex diplomatic web while navigating an era of hyper-radicalization, underground networks, and anti-colonial liberation movements. The central challenge of the committee will be balancing the Comintern's mandate for centralized, worldwide revolution against the distinct socio-political realities and sovereignty concerns of individual national delegations.
ECOFIN
(Economic and Financial Affairs Council)
*Single Delegation Format
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 3/5
With 304 million international migrants annually, international labor migration sits at the intersection of economic growth, labor markets, social dynamics, and human rights protection, making it a crucial global issue. As populations in developed countries continue to age, reliance on migrant workers has increased to address labor shortages and sustain economic development, especially in low-skill industries. However, migration also raises concerns surrounding public resources, wage disparities, and social integration, calling attention to the reformation of current policies and structures. Furthermore, while origin countries may benefit from remittances transferred, challenges such as brain drain and the loss of skilled workers also threaten the sustainable development of the national economy. Delegates must weigh the economic benefits of migrant labor against the concerns surrounding wage competition, public resources, workers’ legal rights protection, and brain drain in origin countries. As international immigration increasingly expand over the global, a clear pathway awaits to be established. Every reform, every legal structure, every policy established here will reshape the balance.
UNESCO
(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
*Single Delegation Format
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 1/5
As Artificial Intelligence becomes more prevalent in every aspect of life, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has been at the forefront of the global development of AI tools. However, this has raised both moral and ethical concerns over the use of AI when discussing and developing educational and cultural guidelines. In this committee, you will be tasked with understanding UNESCO's use of AI and how the development of these tools could help or harm communities around the globe.
GAPs
General Assemblies Plus combine the best of the General Assembly experience with the best of the Crisis Committee experience. With around 35 delegates in total, General Assembly Plus committees work towards passing resolutions while simultaneously addressing crisis updates that mimic the fast-paced nature of the news.
*All GAPs except the JGAP committees are single-delegate committees
House of Commons
Difficulty level: 1/5
Seriousness Scale: 3/5
Leave or Remain? This is the question that lingered over British voters and politicians in 2016. Anti-European Union parties seek to bolster their influence within the UK, weaponizing politically potent issues of immigration and the EU’s economic status. Simultaneously, the shadow cabinet Liberal Party works to maintain the UK's economic and political membership in the EU. A complex battle between demographic divides, historical separation from Europe, and regional conflicts hurtle towards a referendum on whether the UK will hold up their commitment to the EU. Delegates must engage in a competition of political messaging and influence, working towards impacting the referendum results in favor of their party position. The country is deliberating and needs the British House of Commons to shape the United Kingdom’s collective path forward.
FIFA Council
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 2/5
The year is 2029, and the world is reliant on one event to boost the morale and patriotism of all nations: The World Cup. As players begin their practicing and teams start planning, so too must the heads of FIFA start strategizing on how to appeal to the average consumer while keeping an eye on the nations themselves. With many issues needing to be resolved, such as what to do about merchandising and sponsors, what mascot should be chosen, how to build up infrastructure and media influence, and how to avoid (or take up) bribe deals from political actors. Reeling off of the impressive 2026 World Cup, delegates have to sift through the underlying deals and agreements of the organization, get the stage set, and manage the most influential sports event in the world.
Commonwealth of Nations
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 2/5
The year is 2028, and Commonwealth leaders have gathered for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) as an increasingly unstable world puts the strength of the Commonwealth to the test. As piracy, illegal fishing, smuggling, and organized maritime crime threaten vital shipping routes, member states must balance the security of their waters with the sovereignty of nations across the Commonwealth. At the same time, rising seas and increasingly severe storms are threatening several Pacific and Caribbean islands to disappear, raising an unprecedented question: what happens when a country’s people can no longer safely inhabit their homeland? Delegates must navigate these complex interconnected crises while balancing security, sovereignty, climate displacement, and economic survival, but with unexpected crises unfolding throughout the summit, the future of the Commonwealth itself may hang in the balance.
Mongol Kurultai
Difficulty level: 3/5
Seriousness Scale: 1/5
Following the death of Möngke Khan in 1259, the Mongol Empire had not universally accepted Khan, leaving the empire at a critical crossroads. Delegates will represent princes, generals, nobles, and important regional leaders gathered to discuss the future of the empire. With Kublai and Ariq Böke both claiming the throne, delegates must navigate competing claims within the Chinggisid family and the fate of regional khanates, whose leaders may not want to give up their autonomy to a new Khan. Through diplomacy, delegates will debate territory, finances, family dynamics, and the balance between greater unity and regional autonomy, all while struggling with family assassination plots, shifting alliances, and the threat of civil war. Historically, the conflict contributed to the Mongol Empire becoming increasingly divided, but this committee gives delegates the opportunity to reimagine that outcome and change the course of history on the fate of the Mongol Empire.
UNSC
(United Nations Security Council)
*Joint GAP, *Double Delegation Format
Difficulty level: 5/5
Seriousness Scale: 2/5
MUNCH XVIII is excited to present its first-ever joint GA+ simulation. In the year 2030, Paul Kagame-led Rwanda has launched a full-scale invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has sent the African Great Lakes region into a quickly escalating crisis, with vast quantities of minerals essential for human progress at peril. With quickly-escalating alliances and foreign interventions, the World hasn’t seen a war of this scale in over 80 years. This double delegate committee will feature the best parts of crisis and general assembly all in one weekend. Delegates will represent their countries in a crisis simulation on the first day in two separate rooms: the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC). Both rooms will receive the same unfolding crisis while independently developing responses and coordinating across rooms to respond to the invasion and it’s consequences. On the second day, all delegates from both rooms will convene into one General Assembly to write a resolution solving the crises from the day before and forging a better path forward for Africa and the world. Delegates will have to defend their actions and collaborate to restore world order. Get scheming, conniving, and collaborating, as your time to make—and fix—a world crisis is now.
AUPSC
(African Union Peace and Security Council)
*Joint GAP, *Double Delegation Format
Difficulty level: 5/5
Seriousness Scale: 2/5
MUNCH XVIII is excited to present its first-ever joint GA+ simulation. In the year 2030, Paul Kagame-led Rwanda has launched a full-scale invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has sent the African Great Lakes region into a quickly escalating crisis, with vast quantities of minerals essential for human progress at peril. With quickly-esclating alliances and foreign interventions, the World hasn’t seen a war of this scale in over 80 years. This double delegate committee will feature the best parts of crisis and general assembly all in one weekend. Delegates will represent their countries in a crisis simulation on the first day in two separate rooms: the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC). Both rooms will receive the same unfolding crisis while independently developing responses and coordinating across rooms to respond to the invasion and it’s consequences. On the second day, all delegates from both rooms will convene into one General Assembly to write a resolution solving the crises from the day before and forging a better path forward for Africa and the world. Delegates will have to defend their actions and collaborate to restore world order. Get scheming, conniving, and collaborating, as your time to make—and fix—a world crisis is now.
Crisis Committees
Small and swift, Crisis Committees focus 20 delegates on specific historical or political issues in a fast-paced environment. Delegates get the opportunity to represent high-powered individuals within those scenarios and utilize a range of tools to respond to crisis updates.
*All crisis committees are single-delegate committees
The Simian Divide: Planet of the Apes
Difficulty level: 1/5
Seriousness Scale: 2/5
Oops! It's 2026 and GEN-SYS, an ambitious biotechnology company that once promised the cure to Alzheimer's has now accidentally unleashed their compound, ALZ-113, which infects both humans and apes with a disease called the Simian Flu. While the flu is deadly to humans, on apes, it has the opposite effect: apes who get infected get heightened intelligence. Now, as the virus threatens to become a full-fledged pandemic, two groups emerges: humans who want to continue their reign over Earth, and the apes, who want to create a community just for them. This committee will task delegates with navigating the chaos of a rapidly changing world order from multiple sides of the crisis. Ape delegates must task themselves with the liberation of captive primates from labs and zoos, the spread of the compound to enlighten their species, the creation of a code of ape law, and the construction of self-sustaining colonies. Meanwhile, the human delegates in committee, in a newly-formed alliance of GEN-SYS executives, military commanders, and civilian survivors, must manage dwindling resources, contain the world pandemic, and decide how to manage survivor camps. This committee will also task delegates with a difficult question: Should we broker peace, or go all out to be the dominant species on Earth?
Y2K: Five Minutes to Midnight
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 1/5
It is December 31, 1999. Around the world, people are celebrating the beginning of a new millennium, while governments and businesses insist that the feared “Y2K bug” has been handled. Then midnight arrives, and almost immediately, something starts going wrong.
Banks cannot access account records. Airports lose track of flights. Power begins disappearing in major cities, and governments start receiving warnings they cannot tell are real or simply the result of failing systems. Delegates will have to make decisions while working with incomplete and sometimes completely contradictory information. What begins as a strange New Year’s Eve quickly becomes a fight to keep governments functioning, prevent panic, and make sure that one misunderstanding does not turn a technical failure into an international crisis.
The Justice Leagues
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 1/5
Batman... we're not in Gotham anymore! The year is 2026, and a mysterious explosion has transported all of the D.C. superheroes to the world of Marvel, and they must work together to save the world and get the D.C. heroes back home! But now that they're all together, powers seem to slowly be disappearing by the hour. The mysterious entity doing this all to you is still unknown, and if it isn't caught soon... who knows what will happen. As friendships are built and powers are lost, you heroes must work together to save the world and get back home in one piece!
The 2nd Punic War: An Elephant in the Wolves' Den
Difficulty level: 2/5
Seriousness Scale: 4/5
The year is 218 BCE. The Roman Republic stands at the height of its power, controlling the entirety of the Italian peninsula as well as the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. However, this moment of Roman glory is now at risk of coming to an end. Hannibal, the son of the infamous Carthaginian general Hamilcar, has crossed the Alps, bringing with him an uncounted but large and threatening army of men, horses, and even elephants. To add salt to the wounds, Hannibal has even reportedly secured the support of the Gallic tribes of northern Italy, while in the south, some Greek cities, unhappy with Roman rule, are showing interest in him. This CRISIS committee, representing the Roman Senate, will task delegates with fighting Hannibal and stopping him from moving any further south, while also fighting against the Carthaginians abroad in Hispania, Africa, and at sea. Besides war, delegates will also need to be able to manage the republic's finances, military, and foreign affairs, ensuring the republic doesn't go bankrupt and has to deal with new foes. Debate will focus on defeating Hannibal, maintaining the republic's finances, preventing additional powers such as Macedonia and Syracuse from joining the Carthaginian cause, maintaining Rome's alliances and vassals, and ultimately securing a total Roman victory and the destruction of Carthage.
Alongside the Senate and its senators, the committee will also feature two consuls who will be critical to decision-making. Although the consuls possess significant executive authority, each will be limited by the other's veto power and by a one-hour term of office. Once their term expires, the Senate will vote to elect a brand new pair of consuls, creating an ever-changing political environment in which delegates must constantly build alliances and compete for influence to ensure their goals materialize.
With each passing day, Hannibal and his forces move closer to Rome. The Senate must act now, or else these could be the final days of the eternal city.
Carthago delenda est, Carthage Must be Destroyed
Paris Calling: French Revolution, 1789
Difficulty level: 3/5
Seriousness Scale: 3/5
Eight hundred years of Capet rule have come to an end. In 1789, Louis XVI, formerly the absolute monarch of France, was forced to accede to the demands of the Third Estate and accept a parliament vested with true power. As the Ancient Régime falls, visions of a new order compete for political power in the halls of the National Assembly, as well as in the streets or on the barricades of Paris. Meanwhile, those attached to the old regime conspire to extinguish the revolution and pick up the crown of France from the gutter. Delegates will undertake the task of protecting the revolution, or undermining it as the case may be, while laying the groundwork for the future of France. Herculean tasks of drafting a new constitution for the French state, managing foreign relations, and surviving the turmoil and riots of Paris lie ahead. Work together and navigate the shifts in power, or you may find yourself with an appointment to meet Madame Guillotine.
The September Revolution: Nepal 2025
Difficulty level: 3/5
Seriousness Scale: 1/5
The year is 2025, and less than two decades after becoming a federal democratic republic, Nepal stands at a political crossroads. During the eruption of Gen Z-led protests across the country, growing unrest has challenged the legitimacy of Nepal’s political establishment and pushed its government toward collapse. As protests escalate and institutions struggle to respond, political leaders, activists, organizations, and other influential actors must navigate an unprecedented transition of power. This committee will task delegates with responding to the unfolding revolution while determining what comes next for Nepal. Delegates will negotiate the formation of an interim government, elect an interim president, and ultimately establish a new political order and elect Nepal’s next president. Grounded in the real events of the September 2025 Gen Z Revolution in Nepal, the committee will allow delegates to shape an alternate course for Nepal’s history through political negotiation, crisis developments, and strategic decision-making. The future of Nepal is in your hands.
The Icebreaker: Crisis in Greenland
Difficulty level: 3/5
Seriousness Scale: 4/5
Greenland is not for sale. Or is it?
It is 2028, and negotiations between Washington and Copenhagen collapse. An increasing US presence in Greenland turns a diplomatic conflict into a crisis at the center of NATO. Denmark will not surrender its claim, Greenland’s leaders see this as a time to determine their own future, and Russia and China begin testing just how far a divided West can be pushed. Furthermore, critical minerals, emerging shipping routes, and Arctic control are becoming more strategically important by the year.
Delegates will enter a crisis where allies could be more dangerous than enemies, and basically everyone has something to gain from instability. Whether they preserve NATO, pursue Greenlandic independence, or bargain for Arctic resources, is up to them. The question is: if Greenland's future is for the taking, who gets to decide it?
Six of Crows: The Rise or Fall of Ketterdam
Difficulty level: 3/5
Seriousness Scale: 0/5
The world is in utter chaos... Ketterdam is a place of thieves, assassin's, and burglars... The one you need to be worried about, though is Dirtyhands. The Crows are the most infamous gang within Ketterdam, and the man behind it all Dirtyhands... No one truly knows why he's called that. Is it the work that he's done, or something just to scare the outsiders? Though, The Crows are growing so is the outside underground world... Pekka Rollins has been getting in the way of the Crows, and their most recent job. A job to find a scientist, Bo Yul-Bayur within the most guarded prison within Fjerda... Though, Dirtyhands needs the Delegates help... Get to the scientist before Rollins does. Control the underground, and remain victorious. The delegates against the Crows need to ensure that they get to the prize before The Crows, ensuring their victory of the gold and the total control of the underground.. Who will become victorious? Who will have real control of Ketterdam, and seal the fate of the future? Only the Delegates can ensnare the fate of what happens on the path to Fjerda, and the future of the underground city of Ketterdam...
Lights Out: South Africa’s Energy Crisis
Difficulty level: 4/5
Seriousness Scale: 2/5
The year is 2035; South Africa is a growing nation with one of the highest rates of energy production and consumption in the African Continent. Following the 2022-2024 energy crisis, where an electrical state called load-shedding--intentionally shutting down portions of the electrical grid to prevent total grid collapse--was in effect for several hours a day, the electrical grid has been relatively stable for years since. However, for the first time in a decade, Eskom, the main electricity public utility for the country, authorized Stage 3 load-shedding. Though not as severe as the Stage 6 load-shedding witnessed in years previous, citizens fear that the situation may escalate. This committee will task delegates with analyzing the problems that the South African energy grid has been experiencing for half a century. Debates will focus on addressing the outdated coal system, the potential of renewable energy, and Eskom’s financial distress following the infamous energy crisis. Delegates will face legislative barriers and fear the rising rates of electricity theft but will ultimately have to decide how to prevent another energy crisis. Both time and electricity are in short supply.
We Built This City Brick by Brick: LEGO City Council
Difficulty level: 4/5
Seriousness Scale: 1/5
The grass isn’t always greener on the other side— in fact, sometimes it’s plastic, and really hard to take apart unless you have a Brick Separator. In the town of Bricksburg, a mere blip within the LEGO Cinematic Universe, civilians can choose to pursue a career in whatever they want: from your construction workers, the heart of the city piecing together the latest LEGO City Skyscraper, all the way to your doctors, tirelessly working on back-to-back brick transplants, this city’s got it all. That is, until President Business was elected into office. Now, the common folk of Bricksburg face a myriad of crises in the midst of this new administration: a severe brick shortage, policies infringing on the Lego Constitution (a.k.a. The Brick of Rights), and the impending threat of a Kraggle Shutdown looming over the city. Today, a council of the most powerful members of the LEGO Cinematic Universe have been summoned to compose the ultimate plan to restore the state of the city— and in a world that was literally made brick by brick, our tiny heroes may have to rely on means beyond their wisdom (and reach into their very own toolboxes) to ensure Bricksburg doesn’t collapse into thousands of scattered, painful pieces.
2 Ad Hoc Committees
Ad Hocs are special committees where delegates don't know what the committee is until conference weekend. They’re interesting and engaging committees recommended for more experienced delegates. This year we have two and are excited to share these committees with you!