Nearly as old as the United Nations itself, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization was founded in November 1945 as a specialized agency of the United Nations. It has three main goals: preserving cultural heritage through future generations, delivering equal educational opportunities for all, and promoting breakthroughs in the various sciences. Culturally, UNESCO works in close collaboration with many states all around the world to protect their land’s history, geographical beauties integrated into their country’s culture, and other major components of culture like languages through using “UNESCO World Heritage Sites,” of which there are 1,199. Scientifically, UNESCO sponsors advancements in science and technological advancement programmes all around the world, especially in regions that fall behind due to a lack of stability. These sponsorships are done using local Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Organs to endorse scientific research in all sciences. Lastly, education-wise, UNESCO helps assist governments improve the education services they offer to their civilians while also making sure that these services are delivered with no discrimination over race, gender, age, or language.

Like all other UN bodies, UNESCO aims to reach its goals regarding all cultural, scientific, and educational aspects worldwide. However, some of the issues that obstruct UNESCO from achieving its goals globally are connected closely to political matters. For this, UNESCO engages in diplomacy with many states in order to collaboratively find solutions. Regardless, some of these issues are complex in terms of their backgrounds. This results in UNESCO having to decide upon multiple approaches to find proper solutions. To further align each committee with the conference theme of “Adopting global diplomacy as a catalyst for combatting international conflicts,” and heighten debate, this year’s agenda items were selected out of such problems. For this, the delegates must engage in diplomacy to promote sustainable solutions while considering all aspects of their respective agenda items while also keeping in mind their delegation’s interests on the matter.