Who is eligible to participate in Cathedral MUN?

The conference is run at the high-school level, so eligibility is oriented toward secondary-school students rather than university delegates.

Where is the conference held?

Cathedral MUN takes place in Mumbai, India, drawing delegates from across the South Asian and broader Asian MUN circuit.

How large is the conference?

It is a mid-to-large school conference by Indian standards, with delegate numbers in the hundreds across its committees over a multi-day program.

How should a first-time delegate prepare for a conference this size?

Focus on committee-specific preparation once allocations are released, and prioritize mastery of the agenda's core procedural and substantive questions over generic background reading.

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The Cathedral Model United Nations

Name: The Cathedral Model United Nations
Start: 2026-08-08T00:00:00Z
End: 2026-08-10T00:00:00Z
Location: Mumbai

Mumbai, India · high-school

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Dates: Aug 8–2026 (day: 10)
Fee: TBD
Reg deadline: TBD
Delegates: 500
Language: English
Format: In-person

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Summary

The Cathedral Model United Nations returns to Mumbai as a high-school level simulation drawing delegates from across India and the wider Asian circuit. With a planned scale in the hundreds, it sits in the upper tier of school-hosted conferences on the subcontinent, offering a multi-day program of committee work in one of South Asia's most diplomatically literate cities. For students building a serious MUN résumé, Cathedral MUN is a useful benchmark: large enough to attract competitive delegations, structured enough to reward genuine preparation, and hosted in a metropolis whose own civic and commercial life mirrors many of the global issues that committees debate.

Why this edition matters in 2026

Mumbai is not an incidental host city. It is India's financial capital and a node in the Indian Ocean economy, which means delegates debating climate finance, maritime security, or trade rules are doing so in a place where those questions are lived rather than abstract. A high-school conference here inherits some of that gravity, even when the committee topics are global in scope. The conference also matters because of its level. High-school MUN in India has grown into a serious training ground for future diplomats, policy analysts, and international lawyers, and conferences at this scale function as informal selection mechanisms - the delegates who perform well here often surface again at national and international circuits. Finally, for schools outside India watching the South Asian MUN scene, Cathedral MUN is a readable signal of where the regional conversation is heading: which crises get simulated, which historical committees get revived, and how a new generation of delegates frames contested questions about sovereignty, development, and multilateral reform.

How to prepare

Preparation for a conference of this size and level should start with the committee matrix once it is published. The difference between a strong showing and a forgettable one is usually whether a delegate understands the specific mandate of their committee and the procedural culture the chairs intend to run, rather than how much general background reading they have done. Delegations traveling to Mumbai should also budget time for logistics that matter more at a large conference than at a small one: assigning experienced delegates to the most contested committees, coordinating bloc strategy across portfolios, and rehearsing how the team will handle press, crisis updates, or unmoderated negotiations when they run in parallel. For solo delegates and smaller schools, the prep angle is different. The goal is not to out-resource larger delegations but to arrive with a sharper command of one or two substantive questions inside the committee's agenda - enough to be the delegate other blocs come to when the draft resolution needs technical language.

Eligibility deep-dive

Level: high-school
Age: —
Team size: —
Country quota: Open

Schedule & deadlines

Conference
Aug 8, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Who is eligible to participate in Cathedral MUN?
The conference is run at the high-school level, so eligibility is oriented toward secondary-school students rather than university delegates.
Where is the conference held?
Cathedral MUN takes place in Mumbai, India, drawing delegates from across the South Asian and broader Asian MUN circuit.
How large is the conference?
It is a mid-to-large school conference by Indian standards, with delegate numbers in the hundreds across its committees over a multi-day program.
How should a first-time delegate prepare for a conference this size?
Focus on committee-specific preparation once allocations are released, and prioritize mastery of the agenda's core procedural and substantive questions over generic background reading.

Last verified May 27, 2026 · Source: mymun.com

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