Organizers

BISMUN Association is a Non-Governmental Organization which has the purpose of promoting UN values within the Romanian society and particularly among the Romanian Youth, as well as within the international community. The Association strives to achieve this purpose by organizing conferences, seminars, workshops, summer schools, debates as well as simulations of international institutions, including the largest annual Romanian Model United Nations, BISMUN (Bucharest International Students Model United Nations) which will be at its fourth edition in 2012.

Although it has a short history, being founded in 2009, in the two years of existence BISMUN Association managed to organize a significant amount of highly succesful projects, out of which we can mention:

-  BISMUN 2009 Conference (Bucharest International Student Model United Nations, 1st Edition) – 19-23 March 2009, Law Faculty

-  Round Table: “New Concepts at UN: Responsibility to protect, between states and the international community” – 12 November 2009, Gafencu Hall, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

-  BISMUN 2010 Conference (Bucharest International Student Model United Nations, 2nd Edition) – 24-29 March 2010. Law Faculty

-  Late Summer Seminar on International Relations and International Law - Negotiating Climate Change Concepts, Tools and Processes – 30 August 2010 – 5 September 2010, Law Faculty

-  BISMUN Internship in the Romanian MFA – September 2010

-  UN at 65: Workshop on UN Reform – 24-25 October 2010, Gafencu Hall, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

-  2nd Meeting of the parties on the Protocol on Water and Health of the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of transboundary watercourses and international lakes (Co-organized alongside the UNECE Secretariat and the Romanian Ministry of Environment) – 23-25 November 2010, Palace of Parliament

-  Roundtable on International Human Rights Day: Human Rights Development in the First Decade of the XXIst Century – 10 December 2010, Palace of Parliament

-  Model International Court of Justice – 10-12 December 2010, Law Faculty

-  BISMUN Charity Ball – 14 December 2010

-  Millenium Development Goals Awareness Campaign – March-June 2011, Law Faculty, UN House, Gafencu Hall, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

-  BISMUN 2011 Conference (Bucharest International Student Model United Nations, 3rd Edition) – 23-28 March 2011, Palace of Parliament and Law Faculty

-  Banat Regional Model United Nations (1st Edition) – 6-8 May 2011, University of the West

-  Transilvania Regional Model United Nations (1st Edition) – 13-15 May 2011, Transilvania University

-  Conference “Present-Day Developments on International Law and International Relations: Libya and the Responsibility to protect – What is the norm?” – 22 June 2011, Law Faculty

-  UN at 66 Conference: “UN at 66 – A Brief History” – 25 October 2011, Law Faculty.

-  BISMUN Student Conference on International Law, International Relations, Security and Economy (1st Edition) – “Looking to the United States from the Western Shores of the Black Sea. What do we see?”, 28-30 October 2011, Law Faculty.

Aside from these projects the Association has contributed to the Romanian civil society developments by participating in the Consultative Council on Youth Issues as a member with full rights being particularly active in the drafting of a law project for the Volunteer Law and in the Selection Committee for the UN Youth Delegate in Romania. In addition, BISMUN is a member of EMUNNET, a European network of highly respected MUN’s, holding the presidency of EMUNNET through its President Hovakimyan Vahe between 2010-2011.