OUR MISSION
Learn Today, Lead Tomorrow
YMUN aims to empower students from high schools around the globe through deep and active engagement with complex global issues. At YMUN, delegates develop skills in diplomacy, cooperation, and critical thinking that motivate lifelong global citizenship. Delegates leave YMUN with the knowledge that they can make an impact and effect positive change in the world.
WHY CHOOSE YMUN?
Learn Today
We design committees creatively, recruit and train chairs comprehensively, and write topic guides meticulously, striving to create a fun, educational, dynamic committee experience for all delegates, regardless of skill level. Over 240 Yale students lead our committees, lending their subject matter expertise to topic guides and debates. YMUN is also proud to provide both in-conference training and online pre-conference training.
Lead Tomorrow
Through our keynote speaker, partnership with a non-profit organization, and out-of-committee learning initiatives, we strive to integrate impact, responsibility, and action into our conference events. We hope delegates leave New Haven with a greater awareness of global issues, equipped with the tools and motivation to make a difference in their communities and, one day, on the national and international scales.
Engage with Yale
Unlike many other elite American conferences, YMUN is hosted on Yale’s historic campus, with the vast majority of committees taking place in the same classrooms where presidents, diplomats, and Nobel Prize winners learned. Through Yale Day, the Global Exchange Program, tours of Yale's museums, and a showcase of Yale student musical groups, delegates engage professors and students seriously, as guest-members of the Yale community, not just on international relations but on college life generally.