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GlobalVoices Essay Competition

Put your ideas to the test in the GlobalVoices 2026 Essay Competition. Explore some of today’s biggest questions in diplomacy and international relations, receive feedback from academic reviewers, and compete for prizes, recognition at GlobalVoices, and the chance to have your work published across Oxford Global platforms.

GlobalVoices Essay Competition
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Inside the Committee Room: UNICEF

Step inside UNICEF at GlobalVoices 2026, where delegates will explore what it means to protect childhood in a rapidly changing world. From preventing the recruitment of children in armed conflict to safeguarding young people from emerging risks posed by AI, the committee will challenge delegates to turn children’s rights into practical international action.

Inside the Committee Room: UNICEF
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Highlights from Chongqing 2026

We returned to Chongqing for the second year of the OGMUN–Chongqing No.8 Secondary School Model United Nations Leadership Academy and Conference. From workshops and committee debate to cultural exchange, expert speakers, and exploring Chongqing and Chengdu, the week gave delegates the chance to build confidence, strengthen their MUN skills, and engage with new ideas.

Highlights from Chongqing 2026
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Inside the Committee Room: Future Crisis

Set in 2075, Future Crisis places delegates in a transformed world where new powers are rising, old assumptions are being tested, and the rules of global leadership are being rewritten. As technology, climate pressure, and shifting geopolitics reshape the international order, delegates must respond to uncertainty, disruption, and the question of what diplomacy looks like in a future still taking shape.

Inside the Committee Room: Future Crisis
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Inside the Committee Room: COP31

From rising seas threatening Pacific Island States to the growing debate over net zero and absolute zero, COP31 places delegates at the centre of global climate diplomacy. This committee challenges delegates to move beyond promises and targets, asking what meaningful climate action should look like when the stakes are measured in land, livelihoods, sovereignty, and the future of the planet.

Inside the Committee Room: COP31

The Internet and Healthcare: Friend or Foe?

The Internet and Healthcare: Friend or Foe?

It goes without saying that the internet has revolutionised countless areas of life, largely due to the high-speed long-distance communication it enables and its role as an information resource. The latter is useful in a myriad of ventures, ranging from artificial intelligence to finding a cupcake recipe. It has also had a massive impact on healthcare, with studies having shown that 60–80% of internet users have utilised it to find health information. However, with the recent rise of the anti-vax movement and the ease with which misinformation may be spread online, is the internet really a force for good in the world of healthcare?

Crime That is Out of This World: What is Going On Out There?

Crime That is Out of This World: What is Going On Out There?

As more people head into space and more activities are carried out beyond the territorial claims of any one nation, the more we need to start asking ourselves what to do when things go wrong. What happens when the intergalactic criminals we see in comics and novels suddenly become real-life characters, attempting to evade the law by staying just outside its reach?

Meaningful Participation and Humanitarian Intervention: Whose Aid-Work Is It Anyway?

Meaningful Participation and Humanitarian Intervention: Whose Aid-Work Is It Anyway?

Currently, little enforceable policy exists to police standards of meaningful participation—the involvement of affected populations—in crisis relief and humanitarian interventions. While this is somewhat unsurprising given the nexus of state-led and charitable activity in this field, it has nevertheless created significant complications pertaining to the sustainability and effectiveness of crisis relief efforts. Further than impairing the practical recovery of affected populations, lax policies of meaningful participation perpetuate dangerous neo-colonial stereotypes as western celebrities involved in campaigns like Comic Relief and, increasingly, individuals partaking in voluntourism reinforce the ‘White Saviour’ stereotype—a trope popularised more through the advent of social media. With reference to some specific case studies, this piece will explore why meaningful participation is paramount for the creation of sustainable solutions to humanitarian crisis, consider the impact of the digital age on these debates by exploring the ‘#NoWhiteSaviours’ campaign on social media, and ultimately suggest how state-led and charitable efforts in this field could be better regulated.

Social Media Platforms: Conduits or Publishers?

Social Media Platforms: Conduits or Publishers?

The advent of technology has left modern legal systems struggling to keep up. Over the last 10 years, legal systems across the world have been trying to find an answer to the precise question posed above: are social media platforms publishers or mere conduits? Unfortunately, no satisfactory answer has yet been found. Instead, individual legal systems have made incremental progress towards the development of such an answer.