Debate
You are handed a country, not an opinion. Learning to argue a position you did not choose is the whole exercise, and it is the part that transfers to everything else.
SDG 17 — Partnerships for the Goals
Where young voices shape global dialogue
Four days. Eight committees. Two working languages. Five hundred students from across Qatar taking a seat at the table, and learning that a resolution is something you build with people who disagree with you.
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The conference at a glance
440+
Delegates
From schools across Qatar
8
Committees
General Assembly, ECOSOC, Security Council and specialised bodies
4
Days
Tuesday to Friday
2
Languages
Arabic and English, equal standing
Doha MUN 2026
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The 2027 theme
Partnerships for the Goals
No country solves a shared problem alone, and no delegate wins a committee alone. Sustainable Development Goal 17 is the one goal about the other sixteen: it asks how cooperation actually gets built. Every committee at Doha MUN 2027 opens its agenda against that question.
- Cooperation over competition
- Evidence before position
- Consensus you can defend
What this is
A conference students run
Doha MUN is organised by Student Affairs and Community Engagement within Pre-University Education at Qatar Foundation, and it is led by students at every level that matters. Students chair the committees, write the study guides, keep the speakers list, rule on points of order, and close the session. Adults handle logistics and safeguarding. The floor belongs to the delegates.
More about Doha MUNDraft
Resolutions are written in the room, in clauses, with people whose instructions contradict yours. Nothing teaches precise writing faster than a delegate hunting your loopholes.
Decide
Amendments, points of information, a vote that can go against you. Delegates leave knowing what it costs to get thirty people to agree to one sentence.
Eight committees
Take your seat
Each committee runs in one working language and opens two topics. Study guides are published with your assignment.
General Assembly First Committee
Disarmament and International Security
General Assembly Third Committee
Social, Humanitarian and Cultural
Economic and Social Council
Development, finance and coordination
United Nations Environment Programme
Environment and climate
From application to gavel
How it works
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Your school applies
A teacher registers the delegation — up to ten delegates, with a named supervising adult. Individual students cannot register alone.
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Assignments arrive
You receive a committee, a country, and the two topics on its agenda, along with the study guide written by your chairs.
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You prepare
Research the position, submit a position paper, and learn enough of the rules of procedure to stand up without checking your notes.
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Four days on the floor
Opening ceremony, lobbying, debate, amendments, a vote, and a closing ceremony where the awards are read out.
Deadlines
Key dates
Everything below is a hard deadline. Late delegations cannot be assigned a country.
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15 August – 15 September 2026
Secretariat applications
The team that designs the conference. Interviews in the last week of September.
Closed -
1 – 30 September 2026
Student officer applications
Chairs and deputy chairs for all eight committees.
Closed -
1 September – 15 November 2026
School registration
Up to ten delegates per delegation, with a named supervising teacher. Delegations that miss this cannot be assigned countries.
Open now -
1 December 2026
Committee and country assignments issued
Sent to the supervising teacher, with study guides attached.
Upcoming -
10 January 2027
Position papers due
One per delegate, per topic. A delegate without a submitted paper is not eligible for an award.
Upcoming -
26 – 29 January 2027
Doha MUN 2027
Qatar Academy Senior School, Education City.
Upcoming
Also on the site
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Rules of the floor
What a point of order is, when you may interrupt, and the questions delegates ask most.
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Who runs it
The secretariat, what each post does, and which of them are still open.
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The venue
Qatar Academy Senior School: the hall, the eight committee rooms, and getting to Education City.
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Resources
Rules of procedure, the position paper template, study guides and the code of conduct.
Bring your delegation
School registration for Doha MUN 2027 is handled by a teacher or MUN coordinator. Register the school first; delegates are named later.