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Plan your Model UN (MUN) position paper before you write it. Enter your country, committee and topics, match your conference's format, and get the outline a chair expects: what goes in each section, how many words it deserves, and slots for the resolutions, treaties and votes you need to find. When the outline looks right, send it to Model Diplomat to research and draft the paper with sources you can check.
500 words
Structure only. Everything in [brackets] is a slot for something you research and cite; the outline contains no facts about your country or topic.
Committee: [Committee]
Country: [Country]
Topic: [Topic 1]
[Delegate name and school, only if your background guide asks for them]
Define the problem and show why it matters now. Keep it short: the chair wrote the background guide and does not need it summarized back.
What the UN and other international bodies have already done, named precisely. This is where most papers stay vague, and where specifics stand out.
Your country's actual position, not your personal opinion: what it has said, how it has voted, what it has signed, and what it does at home.
Two or three ideas specific enough to become operative clauses: who acts, how it is paid for, and how progress is measured. Stay inside what the committee can actually do.
BibliographyBibliography in the citation style your background guide specifies. Check whether it counts toward the page limit.
Word budgets are a starting point, weighted toward past action and solutions because that is where papers are usually thinnest. Page estimates assume about 500 words on a single-spaced page of 12 pt text; your conference's font, margin and spacing rules change that.
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Header, page or word limit, font, file type, naming convention and deadline are all set by the conference. Missing one is the easiest way to lose points.
Many background guides end with questions for delegates to address. Chairs often read papers with those questions next to them.
Resolution symbols, treaty names and years, not “the UN has taken many steps.” Specifics show you did the research.
The position matches your country's statements and votes, written in the formal third person (“The delegation of … believes”).
Each one says who acts, how it is funded and how success is measured, and it is something your committee has the power to do.
Figures, dates, votes and quotes each have a credible source (UN documents, government statements, established research), in one consistent style.
Nothing copied from the background guide, another paper or an AI draft you have not checked and rewritten. Chairs read many papers and notice repeated wording.
Country names, committee name and document symbols spelled correctly, and the paper fits the limit without shrinking the font or margins.
The checklist lives in this tab only; nothing is saved. To check length, paste your draft into the position paper word counter.
Research and draft a Model UN (MUN) position paper for the delegation of [country] in [committee].
Topic: "[topic]"
Start with a header listing the committee, country and topic.
Length: about 500 words, not counting the header or bibliography.
Structure, with approximate word budgets:
1. Topic background (~100 words): Define the problem and show why it matters now. Keep it short: the chair wrote the background guide and does not need it summarized back.
2. Past international action (~125 words): What the UN and other international bodies have already done, named precisely. This is where most papers stay vague, and where specifics stand out.
3. [country]'s policy and record (~125 words): Your country's actual position, not your personal opinion: what it has said, how it has voted, what it has signed, and what it does at home.
4. Proposed solutions (~150 words): Two or three ideas specific enough to become operative clauses: who acts, how it is paid for, and how progress is measured. Stay inside what the committee can actually do.
Past international action: name specific UN resolutions with their document symbols and years, relevant treaties or conventions, and the UN bodies or programs involved. Include only ones you can cite.
[country]'s policy: base it on the documented record: official government or foreign-ministry statements, how [country] voted on the resolutions you cite, whether it signed or ratified the treaties you cite, and national law or programs. If the record is mixed, unclear or unavailable, say so rather than guessing.
Solutions: propose two or three specific solutions that [committee] has the mandate to adopt and that are consistent with [country]'s policy. For each, say who acts, how it is funded and how progress would be measured.
Voice: formal third person ("The delegation of [country] believes…" or "[country] supports…"). No first person.
Use one consistent citation style (footnotes or in-text) and list full sources in a bibliography; I will match it to my background guide's required style.
Accuracy: every statistic, date, vote, resolution number, treaty and quote must come from a source you can cite. Do not invent figures, votes or quotes; if something cannot be verified, leave a [bracketed] gap instead.
After the paper, give: (a) each factual claim with its source; (b) any [bracketed] gaps you could not fill from a verifiable source; (c) the word count for each topic.Type the country you represent, your committee (for example DISEC, UNHRC or the Security Council) and one or two topics, worded exactly as your background guide words them.
Choose one paper per topic or one combined paper, a target length per topic, and a citation style. Your background guide sets all three; if it doesn't say, ask your chair or advisor.
The outline shows the header, the four body sections for each topic with a word budget, bracketed slots for the resolutions, treaties and votes you need to find, and the bibliography. Copy it into your document to work from.
Select Research and draft my paper to send a research prompt to Model Diplomat search. The draft cites a source for each fact and leaves a bracketed gap where it can't find one. Then rewrite it in your own words and check it against the chair's checklist.
A position paper is the first thing your chairs learn about your delegation. They read the stack before committee starts, so a paper that names real resolutions, states your country's actual policy and proposes specific solutions tells the dais you came prepared before you say a word. At many conferences, submitting one on time is also what makes you eligible for awards.
It is just as useful to you. The research behind a good paper is the research behind your opening speech, your moderated caucus points and the clauses you will push for in the draft resolution. Keep the paper open in committee: the resolution numbers, votes and treaties you found are the facts you will be quoting all weekend.
This is the shape the generator plans for each topic, under a header and above a bibliography. If your background guide lists different sections, follow it instead.
Two or three sentences that define the problem and show why it matters now, with one or two sourced figures. Your chair wrote the background guide, so summarizing it back to them earns nothing. Use this section to show you understand what the committee is actually being asked to decide.
What the UN and other international bodies have already tried, named precisely: resolution document symbols (A/RES/… for the General Assembly, S/RES/… for the Security Council) with their years, treaties and conventions, and the agencies or programs already working on the issue. End with what hasn't worked. That gap is what your solutions are for.
What your country has said and done, not what you personally think. Look for statements by its foreign ministry or its mission to the UN, how it voted on the resolutions you cited, which treaties it has signed or ratified, and laws or programs at home. The UN Digital Library's voting data shows recorded votes by country, but most General Assembly resolutions are adopted without a vote, so for those you need the meeting records, where delegations explain their positions.
Two or three ideas specific enough to become operative clauses in a resolution. Each should say who acts, how it is paid for and how progress is measured, build on something that already exists, and stay inside what your committee has the power to do. A General Assembly committee can recommend; it cannot order member states to act.
There is no single Model UN position paper format. Before you write, find the position paper section of your background guide or conference website and check these six things.
Limits range from one single-spaced page per topic to several pages. Some conferences cap each topic, others the whole paper.
With two topics, some conferences want a separate paper for each and others one combined document. The generator plans both.
What goes in the header (country, committee, topic, sometimes your name and school), the font, the file type and how the file is named.
Footnotes, in-text citations or a works-cited list, and which style. Check too whether the bibliography counts toward the limit.
Papers are usually due before the conference. At many conferences, submitting one on time is a condition of being considered for awards.
Some conferences ban AI-written text in position papers; others allow limited use if you disclose it. Plagiarism can make a paper ineligible.
The research process, templates and annotated examples, step by step.
Paste your draft and check it against your conference's limit.
Where to find your country's statements, votes and treaty record.
Turn the paper's research into a timed opening speech.
The strongest position papers are built on your country's record: its votes, its statements and the treaties it has signed. Model Diplomat finds them and cites the source behind each one, so you can open and check it. A free account includes 200 searches on day one, then 50 a day.