LASMUN: La Salle Model United Nations (2018) - Developed by students and for students, the MUN aims to simulate a real discussion among the Member States of the United Nations. Divided into committees, all topics are based on current international events and should be treated seriously. Believing that a MUN is an excellent experience for every International Relations student, and certain of the importance of such event and how much it is possible to learn from it, a group of students decided to organize and make the simulation at La Salle University. In 2013, Unilasalle hosted its first Model United Nations, called La Salle Model United Nations – LASMUN.

LASMUN’s first edition presented a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, debating the United Nations Security Council reform. Given the success of LASMUN’s first edition, we decided to organize a second edition in May 2014 to which many changes were made. For the first time, the event was open to other universities and to all undergraduate programs; more students were engaged in the organizing staff, combining fresh and senior students to ensure the project’s continuity; two committees were simulated and a more solid partnership was established with the University.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) simulated a discussion about international espionage and its implications to individual rights and security issues, and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) explored the situation in the then world’s newest country, South Sudan. Due to the success of the two editions, the third one wouldn’t be any different. We had the presence of many students from other universities.
This shows that LASMUN managed to achieve its goal: to become a known MUN regionally. The United Nations General Assembly simulated a discussion on The Post-2015 about the Development Agenda and the Security Council discussed the rise of the Islamic State - The Situation in Iraq and in Syria. To the fourth edition, we chose to the General Assembly the issue of refugees in Europe, called Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Europe involving human rights, demonstrating the attitude of each country towards either to be supportive or not to such a serious situation.