The Crisis Council is a committee that made its debut at AMUNC2009, in Brisbane. Here’s how it works: two ‘cabinets’ represent two different countries or bodies that have come to a deadly impasse. Scenarios are either historical or hypothetical. The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance, the United States and the Soviet Union, Iran and Israel, Russia and Georgia, all of these groups have been represented in the Crisis Council over the last three years. Delegates each represent a member inside of the cabinet, for example, in the Triple Entente Roosevelt, Clemenceau, and Lord George were present to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles. The cabinets are made up of 8 people each; with a large number of directors working behind the scenes managing delegates choices in real time. The experience itself is one of the most intense at AMUNC and the Crisis Council is therefore considered to be a ‘special committee’, meaning that it is open only to experienced MUN delegates.

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1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict

The Crisis Council at AMUNC2012 will cover the Sino-Soviet border clashes of the late 1960’s, a conflict that is unique in a number of ways, and probably one of the least understood conflicts of the Cold War. Although the clashes never resulted in what may be described as an all out ‘hot’ war, lives were lost and territory was fought over. A high level of brinkmanship was on display during this conflict, with both nations being members of the nuclear club. Most of the conflict occurred on the Ussuri River, to the north of Manchuria.

Escalating tension on the Korean Peninsula