Dear Delegates,
I am very excited to welcome you to the Security Council (SC) of BERMUN 2024!
The SC is a special organ whose primary mandate is peacekeeping by enacting binding clauses on Member States.
In our committee, our topic will be “Confronting Fragmentation in Kashmir”. Kashmir is located north of India and has been the topic of many territorial disputes between primarily India and Pakistan since 1947 after the partition of British India. With ongoing conflicts in the region and many differing identities there are strong divides between Kahmiris in the Indian regions of Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh and the Pakistani regions of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Differing identities and belief systems in this region strain relations between India and Pakistan, leading them to prioritize regional interests over global citizenship.
I encourage all delegates to cooperate and participate in debate to make this an enjoyable conference for all. Voicing your member state’s policy is a valuable way to learn and grow as a delegate.
On a more personal note, this will be my fifteenth MUN conference and my ninth time and final time serving as a Student Officer. I am an eighteen-year-old German-American student at the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, Germany. Outside of MUN, I enjoy acting and playing lacrosse. In the future I plan to attend medical school for neurology and eventually go into Alzheimer’s research.
I am looking forward to getting to know all of you at this year’s conference!
Sincerely,
Josie Riemer
