Teaching Diplomacy to Kids Through Model UN

Guest: Cory Leonard, Associate Director at the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYU Model United Nations is a program for kids to pretend they’re a representative of a country and debate global issues. Simulating diplomacy like this started in the 1920s before the UN even existed. But what’s the point of having students run around pretending to be the Peruvian or Russian delegate if none of it is real? (Originally aired November 21, 2019)