Editing Model United Nations (section)

=== South America ===

====Brazil====

The Americas Model United Nations (AMUN<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://amun.org.br/|title=AMUN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140516193407/http://amun.org.br/|archive-date=16 May 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=2018-06-29|df=dmy-all}}</ref>) was the first MUN Conference to be held in Latin America, accomplishing 21 years of history in 2018 with the edition ''Bring Walls Down, Build Up Connections''.<ref name="UNBRAZIL">{{Cite web|url=https://nacoesunidas.org/simulacao-de-conferencias-da-onu-reune-130-estudantes-em-brasilia/|publisher=UN|title=UN conference simulation gathers 130 students in Brasilia}}</ref> The event official language of the conference is English, which has enabled AMUN to receive students from various countries worldwide. The committees vary with each edition of the project, as well as its themes addressed, among which are international security, cooperation, human rights, democracy and transnational crimes.
Among the cultural activities, there is a tour around Brasília, the city hosting the event, and the Nations Fair, in which the peculiarities and customs of each country are shown by the participants representing them on the Conference.

==== Peru ====
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At university level, Model United Nations started in Peru in 2006 with the United Nations Studies Circle (CENU), a college team from the [[University of Lima]] founded to compete at [[Harvard National Model United Nations]]. This team would evolution into a full-scale organization, the Peruvian Association for the Study of the United Nations (AENU Peru for its Spanish acronym), a non-for-profit NGO charged with task of promoting MUN in Peru and creating Peru's first "National Delegation", thus creating the Peruvian Universities Debate Team (PU). Starting their new trademark since 2011, PU's has garnered the Best Large Delegation award at [[Harvard World Model United Nations]] 2014 held in Brussels, Belgium, and the Best Large Delegation award at [[Harvard International Relations Council|Harvard National Model United Nations - Latin America]] 2017, held in Lima, Peru.<ref name="Peru21">{{Cite web|url=https://peru21.pe/peru/peru-sera-sede-octava-edicion-conferencia-academica-organizada-harvard-453570|publisher=Peru21|title=Peru will host the eighth edition of the academic conference organized by Harvard|date=16 January 2019|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-date=5 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505204316/https://peru21.pe/peru/peru-sera-sede-octava-edicion-conferencia-academica-organizada-harvard-453570|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2014, the Peruvian Debate Society (PDS) was founded by experienced MUN delegates as a new alternative towards competing in [[Harvard International Relations Council]] conferences. PDS has achieved the Best Large Delegation award at Harvard National Model United Nations Latin America in 2018.<ref name=":9" /> The team won the Best Large Delegation award at the 2018 edition of WorldMUN, held in [[Panama City]]. A year later, at WorldMUN 2019 in Madrid, they won an Outstanding Large Delegation award.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news|url=https://elcomercio.pe/somos/historias/conoce-peruanos-expertos-debatir-ganan-competencias-internacionales-noticia-605096-noticia/|newspaper=El Comercio|title=Conoce a los peruanos expertos en debatir que ganan competencias internacionales|date=7 February 2019}}</ref>

At high school level, MUN has been a popular extracurricular activity since 2012, with the first high school conference Lima Model United Nations (LiMUN) 2012, followed by Villa Maria Model United Nations (VMMUN) 2015, Newton Model United Nations (NewMUN) 2015, and Carmelitas Model United Nations 2015, being the latter school the host for the first Ivy League Model United Nations Conference Peru (ILMUNC 2016). Each school delegation hosts its own conference, including Lima, Cusco, Arequipa and Piura.<ref name="elregional">{{Cite web|url=https://www.elregionalpiura.com.pe/index.php/regionales/151-talara/35725-escolares-talarenos-participaron-del-peru-model-united-nations-2019|publisher=El Regional|date=21 July 2019|title=Talareño schoolchildren participated in Peru Model United Nations 2019|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-date=4 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804023408/https://www.elregionalpiura.com.pe/index.php/regionales/151-talara/35725-escolares-talarenos-participaron-del-peru-model-united-nations-2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>