These conference agendas are designed to help you focus your research concerning the issues within your sub-game. You will note that there is one set of questions listed for each issue area. These questions serve three purposes:

• First, the agendas offer a direction for your research. You must be familiar with your country’s position on the issue areas and the questions posed in the conference agenda. Your tactics will be more effective if you are also aware of the positions of the countries with which you are negotiating.
  
• Second, these questions serve as a guide to the discussions that take place during the conferences. These conferences are not free-for-all sessions, but structured debates moderated by SIMCON. Issues that are not outlined in the conference agenda are not open for debate.
  
• Lastly, the agendas set the tone for your negotiations over the system prior to the conferences. Since you know what will be discussed in the conference, the weeks prior to the conference should be spent lining up allies and trying to pre-negotiate rough outlines of agreement so the conferences will be productive.

Prior to each conference, a detailed conference agenda will be posted. These agendas might reflect a discussion of proposed treaties addressing pertinent issues. The conference agendas listed below are broad guidelines concerning the points that will be addressed. According to the normal conference format, after the first agenda item is discussed, the conference will move on to the next agenda point, and so on.

Human Rights: Child Labor

1. Securing the rights of the child from exploitation would be more possible if the UN, with the support of its member countries, could address the poverty in much of the world which forces children to work. What policy or policies can be developed to help overcome the underlying poverty forcing children to work?
   
2. What policies can the international community develop to influence the business practices of multinational corporations concerning the use of child labor? Who will monitor and enforce them?
   
3. What policies can the international community develop to influence the consumption patterns of consumers in affluent nations? Who will monitor and enforce them?

Global Environment: Global Climate Change

1. Should global environmental issues be dealt with as problems are identified, or in a more long-term and comprehensive way?
   
2. What should be included in a climate change treaty? If countries do not want to adopt such provisions, how will countries deal with environmental problems?
   
3. Is emissions trading a good way to promote reduction in global carbon emissions? What about debt-for-nature swaps? How could these tools be included in a climate change treaty? Should they?
   
4. Are the EDCs (economically developed countries) primarily responsible for protecting the global environment because they are the main contributors to global warming?
   
5. Should LDCs (lesser developed countries) be expected to pursue an alternative path to economic development that is less dependent on fossil fuels?

Conferences I & II

1. What is the biggest problem associated with drug trafficking—the demand for or supply of illegal drugs?
   
2. What can be done to reduce drug trafficking? What is the best strategy or combination of strategies to reduce drug production and exports? Who will finance, supply, and enforce any proposed solution?
   
3. Should national governments intervene in the drug control strategy and efforts of other countries? Should international aid be withheld from countries that are major drug suppliers? Should sanctions be used against countries that are major drug consumers?

World Health:  Infectious and Communicable Diseases

Conferences I & II

1. What are effective strategies for dealing with drug resistant diseases?
   
2. Should disease control efforts focus on medical research, or on combating the environmental and social factors contributing to disease?
   
3. Can communicable disease really be "controlled" in an increasingly interdependent world?
   
4. What role do governments have to play in educating the public on HIV and AIDS? Is education enough?

International Trade and Economics:
Immigration/Refugee Issues

Conferences I & II

1. Is immigration a positive thing or a negative thing for a national economy? What role does economics play in immigration? How can governments address the economic aspects of immigration?
   
2. What role should law enforcement and border control play in immigration and refugee policy? Can a strategy be developed that protects both the territorial rights of a country and the human rights of the immigrant?