The MUN experience is much more than just the conference. There is the research and preparation required beforehand, the adoption of views and attitudes other than our own, the working with new people or friends to represent a nation, the social life of delegates after a hard day of committee work.

But above all there is the private satisfaction and personal pride felt when a committee room or General Assembly is filled with delegates raising their placards into the air, voting for a resolution that you have researched, written, lobbied for, debated and agreed on.

DIARY BG IN DUBLIN : report of SAIMUN 2014 by Danish students