Rekha Datta is Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Sociology and Former Founding Director, Institute for Global Understanding, Monmouth University, United States.
Teaching The UN Through Experiential Education
A long-standing and unique instrument that provides experiential learning opportunity for students, and addresses this kind of multifaceted and deeper impact, is the Model UN experience. Even before the creation of the United Nations, in the 1920s a group of students from Ivy League schools introduced the model league, which later morphed into the Model UN.