Model United Nations activities around the world are coordinated by a wide variety of groups and individuals.
Although universities and colleges organize the majority of MUNs, high schools also organize them. Professors or teachers and students work together in these situations. Some conferences are also run by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) focused on international education. Some are sponsored or supported by civic organizations. United Nations Associations (UNAs) have been the groups that have done the most work in sponsoring, supporting and promoting Model UN around the world.
MUN International has also been involved in assisting new conferences to get started in Dominican Republic, Hong Kong and Bolivia and providing training for others in Senegal and Ecuador.
Many MUN Conferences are incorporated as NGOs themselves and help sponsor other simulations. The aforementioned THIMUN is a good example as it has a network of “affiliated” MUN conferences originally throughout Europe, but now throughout the world.
United Netherlands (see its website (http://www.unitednetherlands.nl)) is set up by students and is supported by the Radboud University Nijmegen.
Norway Model United Nations Society or NorMUN (see its NorMUN home page (http://www.normun.com)) was founded on June 7, 2000 by some of the members of the Norwegian delegation that participated at the Harvard University World Model United Nations (WorldMUN) conference in Athens, Greece that spring.
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Das Akademische Forum für Außenpolitik (The Academic Forum for Foreign Policy) in Austria
The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated and geographically low-lying countries in the world (its name literally means "Low-lands") and is famous for its dikes, windmills, wooden shoes, tulips, bicycles and social tolerance.
At the end of the Eighty Years' War that formed the Netherlands, these regions were made part of the new Republic, but the people had already returned to catholicism as a result of the Counter-Reformation, while the rest of the Netherlands, the ruling class in particular, had largely turned Calvinist.
Political scientists consider The Netherlands a classic example of a consociational state, at least in part caused by the necessity in the Netherlands since the middle ages for different cities to cooperate in order to fight the water (different cities were at the time like different countries by today's standards, and often at war).
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