For seven days this summer, high school students from around the world converged on UCLA to become diplomats at an academic simulation of the United Nations.
 
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High school students from around the world gathered at UCLA to test their skills at handling a world crisis during UCLA's Model United Nations.
At the weeklong UCLA Model United Nations Summer Institute held last month under the sponsorship of the International Institute, the visiting students lived in a virtual United Nations world, negotiating responses to a simulated world crisis or resolutions on serious global issues as members of mock UN standing committees.
 
The UCLA Model UN Summer Institute is formally overseen by associate professor of political science Michael Thies, chair of the Global Studies and International and Area Studies degree programs of the International Institute.
 
But UCLA undergraduate students — all of them veterans of Model UN competitions that often date back to their own high school years — run the day-to-day operations of the Institute. Their operation is impressive.
 
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