Useful Links
International and Local News
In an age of sometimes biased and even fake media, Associated Press News, better known as AP News, is an excellent source for live-time news on all events, local and around the world. Unlike many other organizations, AP News always updates threads so viewers can compare times and developments.
Even though referred to as "National Public Radio", NPR is another excellent source for mostly unbiased and factual news both local and worldwide. NPR is a good resource whenever you need in-depth information regarding a topic. A great plus is that NPR also has music if you ever get bored.
Information on Countries
The CIA World Factbook has the most up-to-date information on all countries around the world. This includes but is not limited to a country's population, energy sources and their relative percentages, religion, borders, etc.​
What's better than destroying your opponent's argument by citing the United Nations. For all real-time developments regarding the United Nations and the world, the UN's website is a great resource. Feel bored, tune in to a real UN assembly meeting to truly understand the workings of the UN.
Many times, talking about environmental impacts is very important in holding and supporting your position. Instead of memorizing global weather patterns or guessing, this website shows you real-time weather around the world which can help you build and act as a visual for your contention.
Scientific Information
Science Direct is a great source for any in-depth/scientific data for any field of the sciences. This site is better for science that Wikipedia (to an extent) as it not only has simplified summaries like Wikipedia, but also has records of different studies/published work.
Since nuclear energy or weapons is almost always a topic at every MUN conference, this link takes you to the website of the NTI where you can find a country's nuclear capabilities as well as developments on anything nuclear around the world. A news source on all things nuclear.
MUN Guides
Best Delegate is great resource for understanding how exactly a MUN conference works and what one needs to prepare/take to not only be prepared but hopefully to win. This specific link takes you to a page that tells you how to write a successful opening speech and when the different times to speak are.
IMUNA is a conference formally sponsored by the UN and their website provides excellent resources for anyone to use. This specific link takes you to a list of the world's countries and provides information about the countries as well as links to other reputed sites that contain more information.
This is not a link to a website but instead, a PDF published by NMUN. NMUN, a MUN conference, published their guide to an award-winning position paper which most if not all delegates either have seen or currently use. If you follow the format and instruction, you will soon be bringing home the gold.