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General Youth Assembly Model United Nations
Part of the General Youth Assembly Model United Nations series

General Youth Assembly Model United Nations

Dubai, United Arab Emirates · high-school

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Dates
Sep 5–2026 (day: 6)
Fee
TBD
Reg deadline
TBD
Delegates
250
Language
English
Format
In-person
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Summary

General Youth Assembly Model United Nations is a high-school level Model UN conference convening in Dubai, organised through the mymun platform. The programme is pitched at secondary-school delegates and operates at a contained scale that favours active floor time over spectacle.

Why this edition matters in 2026

Dubai has steadily become one of the most reliable Model UN hubs in the Gulf, and a conference that lands in the early part of the academic year offers something rare: a serious diplomatic exercise that arrives before delegates are buried in exams and university applications. For high-school students mapping out their year of committee work, an early-cycle conference functions as both a calibration tool and a confidence builder. The choice of Dubai also matters. The city sits at a crossroads of delegations from the Arabian Peninsula, South Asia and East Africa, and conferences hosted there tend to surface debates - on energy transition, migration corridors, maritime security - that read differently than they do in European or North American circuits. For a high-school delegate, that exposure is formative. A conference of this size is also small enough that individual delegates are visible. In larger circuits a strong speech can disappear into procedural noise; in a committee with a tighter roster, every position paper and every moderated caucus contribution registers. That is where novice and intermediate delegates actually learn to negotiate.

How to prepare

Preparation for a Gulf-hosted conference rewards delegates who do two things well. First, read the region into your country brief: even if your assigned delegation is European or Latin American, the corridor conversations and the unmoderated caucuses will be shaped by Gulf policy concerns - energy markets, labour mobility, climate adaptation. A delegate who can speak fluently to those concerns lands allies quickly. Second, treat the position paper as a working document, not a submission requirement. The strongest delegates arrive in Dubai with a paper that already anticipates two or three likely blocs and pre-drafts language they would be willing to sponsor. That kind of preparation converts directly into draft-resolution authorship, which is where awards are decided. Finally, because this is a high-school conference with a manageable delegate count, chairs will notice quality of engagement over quantity of interventions. Delegates should rehearse short, surgical speeches - sixty seconds that move a debate forward - rather than long set-piece addresses. That discipline is the single most transferable skill a delegate can take home.

Eligibility deep-dive

Level
high-school
Age
Team size
Country quota
Open

Schedule & deadlines

  1. Conference

    Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 6, 2026

Frequently asked questions

  • Who is eligible to participate?

    The conference is pitched at the high-school level, so secondary-school students are the intended delegate pool.

  • Where is the conference held?

    The conference takes place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

  • How large is the conference?

    It is a mid-sized high-school gathering in Dubai, large enough to host multiple committees but contained enough that individual delegates remain visible on the floor.

  • How do delegates register?

    Registration is handled through the mymun platform, where the conference profile and application flow are hosted.

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

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