The students will work in teams and represent current members of the Security Council or invited countries, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Turkey. During the 2016 spring/summer semester in a weekly seminar at the Department of Law at Freie Universität, the participating students will gain an overview of the topic "responsibility to protect": They will work their way through the fundamentals and case studies from the previous practice of the Security Council. In a simulated special session of the Security Council, they will debate the outstanding issues. Some examples of the issues are: In which cases is the "responsibility to protect" applicable, and what are the appropriate means? Under what circumstances can the Security Council authorize a military intervention? The preparatory seminar will take place on Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. The seminar and the conference will be in English.

Currently the member countries of the Security Council are: Angola, China, Egypt, France, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Senegal, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The invited countries are Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Afghanistan.

Topics of the UN Conference Simulation

• The Genocide in Rwanda (1994)

• The Massacre of Srebrenica (1995)

• The Deadlocked Security Council I: The Case of Kosovo (1999)

• The International Commission of Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), Report "The Responsibility to Protect" (2001)

• The High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, Report “A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility” (2004)

• The World Summit Outcome Document (2005)

• The Situation in Darfur/Sudan (2006)

• Thie Situation in Libya and Security Council Resolution 1973 (2011)

• The Deadlocked Security Council II: The Situation in Syria