Topic A- Project 17: The Gulf Crisis

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In August 1990, Iraq shocked the region and the world with a brazen annexation of Kuwait to its southern border. To put it bluntly, this event sparked a crisis of massive proportions, shattering the myth of pan-Arab unity. This committee drops delegates directly into the emergency sessions of the Arab League, where they must confront a member state invading another and a rapidly escalating international military build-up. 

Delegates will navigate severe ideological splits, balancing the immediate demands for Western military intervention (UNSC) against the deep-seated desire for a purely regional, Arab-led solution. The debate will force students to grapple with high-stakes questions of state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the terrifying reality of a fractured regional order on the brink of total war. In the end, they will ask: Can the Arab League endure?

 

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Topic B- Water Wars: The Tigris and Euphrates Crisis

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With accelerating climate change and upstream mega-dams constricting vital river flows, Iraq and Syria are facing historic droughts that threaten the agricultural heartlands of the Fertile Crescent. Turkey’s massive control over the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers leaves downstream Arab League nations with dwindling, polluted water supplies, triggering mass displacements and internal instability. In this committee, delegates must transcend historical political rivalries to forge a unified pan-Arab water strategy.

Students must move beyond regurgitating scripted language to engage in intense strategic maneuvering to negotiate binding resource-sharing frameworks, leverage regional economic power against non-Arab neighbors, water importation, and deploy innovative desalination and agricultural technologies. The literal survival of the region hangs in the balance.

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CHAIR: Luqmaan Bamba

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