FORUM: Council A

QUESTION OF: The Protection of civilians in modern warfare

SUBMITTED BY: Peoples Republic of China
CO-SUBMITTED BY: Russian Federation, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Peoples Republic
of Bangladesh, Republic of Colombia, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK),
Federal Republic of Germany, Republic of Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Iran
The Council,
Concerned that lack of protection of civilians in modern warfare have caused large numbers
of casualties,
Alarmed by in the countries with modern warfare such as Afghanistan and Somalia have let
large numbers of casualties in past few years,
Acknowledges the uses of chemical weapons in past few wars have caused increasing number
of pollution and birth defects,
Noting that the process of inspection and ratification by Chemical Weapon Convention
(CWC) is called Challenge Inspection,
Affirms the fact that the drones have the potential to aid in the fight against terrorism as a
result of their versatility,
Further noting the member states defensive budget is different to their GDP,
Reminds that definition of warfare is armed conflict between two massed enemies, armies, or
member states

1. Suggests the strengthening and firm enforcement of legislation in all member states
regarding the illicit attacks toward civilians and threatens human rights with the
conjunction of International Law Commission (ILC) and United Nations Interregional
Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) in order to ensure:
a. laws of all member states to protect the human rights during times of war,
b. further implementation of the weapon trade laws between member states and
non-government parties to avoid weaponry warfare,
c. trial supranational criminals to International Criminal Court if necessary;

2. Proposes the formation of Organisation for the Protection of Civilians (OPC) under
the supervision of the United Nations that will assist member nations with:
a. the setting guidelines for security and protective measures towards violations
of civilians in modern warfare especially for LEDCs,
b. establishment positive objectives from all member states towards protection of
civilians in modern warfare and providing biannual reports to member states
on following information:
i. member states protection standards,
ii. recommendation about methods to solve warfare,
iii. whether hostages are being taken,
iv. suspicious areas,
c. the presentation of a defence budget towards the protection of civilians to be
reasonable to ensure that all nations have the most up-to-date security
measures and goals mentioned in sub-clause b to be achievable,
d. intelligence agencies and officials to be sent to conflict areas and be notified
of possible threats in order to make effective reports mentioned in sub clause b
by means of:
i. conducting comprehensive research in the troubled areas,
ii. reporting facts and their opinions on the issues,
iii. approving agencies and officials access of countries by all member
nations,
iv. affirming necessary member states about seriousness on protection of
civilians and to adopt a more regulated approach on the issue;

3. Urges all member states to discard the possession of chemical weapons, in order to
avoid the future chemical and biological warfare, that has high probability of causing
both environmental and collateral fatal casualties, with the assistance of the United
Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and Chemical Weapons
Convention (CWC) by means such as, but not limited to:
a. informing all member states about the impact on environments and the
distraction of achieving the 7th MDG, ensure environmental sustainability,
b. educating the member states about the all seven types of agents and impact of
those chemical weapons to the humans and the distraction of achieving 4th
MDG, reduce child mortality and 6th MDG, combat HIVS/AIDS and other
diseases,
c. investigating member states who are suspected of possessing chemical
weapons and biological weapons to be inspected through the process of
challenge inspection from conventions and be ratified by both United
Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and Chemical Weapons
Convention (CWC);

4. Encourages all member nations and Organisation for the Protection of Civilians
(OPC) to cooperate between one another and provide funds to improve humanitarian
aids to war refugees and civilians in conflict zones such as, but not limited to:
a. provision of food supplies,
b. aid of building safe shelters,
c. improvement of civilian, governmental and organisation communication in
forms of:
i. internet,
ii. telecommunication;

5. Requests that UN peacekeeping forces, if mandated by the Security Council, to be
sent to the affected areas of the troubled nations through cooperation from the
governments and Organisation for the Protection of Civilians (OPC) while ensuring
absence of direct physical intervention in the conflict for such purpose of but not
limited to:
a. the protection of aid workers supported by the United Nations and respective
NGOs aid workers and of local civilians from the conflict,
b. the minimizing the physical force opposing parties exert on each other and its
effect on civilians,
c. the protection of food aids and shelters created through Clause 4;

6. Invites the 76 countries with the possession of Drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
to use them as a peacekeeping force, in the situation of, but not limited to:
a. acts of violence or terrorism except:
i. civil war,
ii. conflicts in high populated areas
b. situation that requires high numbers of pilots and aircrafts in order to reduce
casualties of pilots,
c. use the drones are approved by Drone Watch under the Customary
International Laws (CIS) through the reports about:
i. justification and reasons of using drones,
ii. targeted location and the situation of area,
iii. understand of rules of CIS and the consequence of disobeying the rules
could put member state into International Court of Justice (ICJ);

7. Supports the adherence to the Geneva Convention on the rules of warfare and follow
the rules as it is capable of giving conventions and advices to protect civilians and end
the war as soon as possible;

8. Calls upon member states to build up their attempts to defeat all forms of captures of
hostages and violence against hostages as well as intergovernmental and non-
governmental organizations, peace and security organizations in particular, to add on
assistance to member states, by means of, but not limited to:
a. sharing ideas about suspicious regions and groups of people that could make
activities of seizing hostages,
b. putting the criminals that take the act of capturing other members civilian as
hostages to trial of International Criminal Court as mentioned in clause 1 sub
clause c,
c. promoting attention and protective measures towards rural areas,
d. recognising and appreciating advises and efforts of following campaign:
i. campaign to Protect Rural,
ii. campaign to Strengthen Social Security;

9. Recommends member states to work on improving the national security and provide
assistance to LEDCs in the ways of:
a. formation of Treaties of Friendships between countries in order to establish
cooperation between countries and mutual trusts,
b. training and modernising military forces and technology through, but not
limited to:
i. training camps,
ii. active efforts toward Clause 4 sub clause c, to improve
communication,
iii. educating soldiers not to attack innocent groups of civilians,
iv. ensuring militarys awareness of data shared by Organisation for the
Protection of Civilians (OPC) biannual reports mentioned in clause 2,
c. working with local research institutes to come up with defences and strategies.