The year of 2010 will serve as the scenario for AMUN’s next edition. Bringing together reflections upon this century’s first decade with the value of distinguishing our age, it is by pondering the 2000s and tracing its legacy that AMUN’s committees and topics for discussion will have a meaningful sense. It is coherent to affirm that, by the end of simulation activities, the delegates will have performed a type of ‘history of the present’, as they will have the opportunity of getting in touch with some of the most relevant contemporary trends in international relations.

The 13^th AMUN also intends to be more critically spirited than its previous editions. It represents an opportunity without precedents to promote reflections on the past ten years of contemporary history, on their meaning to the international relations and on the outcomes they will generate for the future. That is why “pondering the 2000s” will not only allow us to trace its “legacy”, but also to distinguish our age.

Given the extremely fast pace of the ending decade, we consider such reflections as imperative, especially when taking into account our times of transition and of fluid dynamics. There are new security concerns, new human rights’ agendas, new technological effects, new configurations of global power and new environmental challenges. Each of these topics will be addressed and discussed by the proposed committees, in accordance with its mandates and functions.

The objective of pondering a decade and relating it to future developments also pays tribute to the recurrent United Nations’ practice of setting up thematic ten-year periods, for the purpose of directing the focus of global society on specific issues of world-wide relevance.

It is in this spirit that Brasilia’s Biblioteca Nacional was chosen to represent this AMUN edition, since it represents this century’s architecture and, as a library, it embodies a reflective attitude. Additionally, Athos Bulcão’s patterns and Oscar Niemeyer’s sketches provide a close relation to Brasilia’s 50^th anniversary and to the idea of tracing the future.

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