Smells Like Tajik Spirit

The United Nations Security Council, 1992

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In 1972, NCSC was founded as the National Collegiate Security Council, a one-committee invitational conference centered solely around the UN Security Council—the first ever committee of its type on the collegiate Model UN circuit. 54 years later, NCSC LIV is excited to continue our flagship time-old tradition and run the best advanced hybrid yet.

This is an advanced double-delegate committee. Awards in this committee will be given a 1.25 weighting when calculating delegation awards.

As delegates to the UNSC, your mission is threefold:

“… to ensure a peaceful resolution to the rising conflict, help guide the nascent nation’s future development, and ensure violence does not spill into its equally young neighbors.”

Get Started

It is 1992. The Berlin Wall has fallen, the Soviet Union collapsed, and 15 new sovereign states have entered the global arena. In what was once the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, there is a fight brewing. An upstart opposition of Islamists and liberal democrats, grown under perestroika and dissatisfied about the country’s economic and political conditions, is challenging the old guard entrenched by 70 years of communist rule.

Since November last year, concerns have grown that the presidential election was rigged in favor of Rahmon Nabiyev, a leading communist official. Protests, strikes, and mass demonstrations have roiled Tajikistan’s cities and countryside; in response, the government has ordered the military to repress protests by any means necessary. Clashes have already begun to break out between government-backed militias and the opposition, with emerging ethnic and regional divides setting in place. The country is on the verge of tipping into civil war.

As delegates to the UNSC, your mission is threefold: to ensure a peaceful resolution to the rising conflict, help guide the nascent nation’s future development, and ensure violence does not spill into its equally young neighbors. Will democracy and diplomacy have its way, or will Tajikistan’s turmoil leave the nation, and Central Asia at large, unstable? Delegates, the future of Tajikistan is yours to deliberate and decide.

Welcome to Tajikistan

In what was once the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, there is a fight brewing.
What will you do?

Meet the Team

Jackson Roberts

CHAIR
Jackson Roberts (he/him) is a member of the Walsh School of Foreign Service Class of 2028 majoring in International Political Economy and minoring in Latin American Studies. As a very proud born-and-not-raised Chicagoan (he grew up in the suburbs), Jackson spends too much time missing Portillo’s, defending deep-dish pizza, and idolizing Ben Johnson. Don’t fret — he has extensive Model UN experience as a competitor in high school and college, has been an Under-Secretary General of General Assemblies for NAIMUN LXIII (NCSC’s sister high school conference), and — why his name may sound familiar — the sender of 16,000 emails to many a head delegate as NCSC LIII’s Director of Delegate Affairs. Between his Model UN escapades, he finds joy and peace as managing editor of Georgetown’s student newspaper, The Hoya, as a guide leading hikes and campouts for Georgetown’s Outdoor Education program, wishing he was backpacking in Patagonia, Spain or Montana, or yapping with NCSC LII’s UNSC Crisis Manager Phoebe Chambers. While he may or may not still be able to remember almost every delegate placement for NCSC LIII (you can test his memory during conference weekend), he is looking forward to seeing familiar faces — and making new friends — during a whirlwind of a NCSC weekend as the chair of Smells Like Tajik Spirit: the UNSC!
Ashley Sorato

CRISIS MANAGER
Ashley Sorato is a member of the Class of 2027 in the School of Foreign Service, majoring in Global Business and minoring in Technology Ethics & Society. Ashley is from Miami, Florida (hey to all my Floridians), but if you know her, you definitely know she calls Santa Catarina, Brazil, her real home. She is a proud member of GUMUN, Georgetown’s collegiate Model UN team, as the Chief Operations Officer (COO) and a devoted General Assemblies delegate (that means you’ve unfortunately seen her around the circuit). She’s involved with staffing conferences previously as well: She has served as Under-Secretary-General of Contemporary Crisis at NAIMUN LXII, Georgetown’s conference for high schoolers, even running its UNSC; being the youngest to chair a GA at NCSC LII; and an avid double-delegate GA chair for a committee of 300+ high schoolers. Outside of MUN, Ashley is the founder of Georgetown’s chapter of Kappa Alpha Pi, a pre-law co-ed fraternity (GUMUN knows her for her frat flicking habits), writes case briefs for the Financial Law Association, and advises students about study abroad programs with Georgetown! In her free time, she loves to DJ and go to raves, try new foods, spend too much time watching shows about the CIA, or yapping about the last F1 race. Recently returning from her study abroad in China, she’s excited to run the United Nations Security Council. If you have any questions, concerns, or want to hear about why Brazil is the best place ever, please feel free to reach out!!
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Director: Sebastian Hardy
Isabelle Kocher

UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL

Isabelle Kocher is a member of the class of 2029 in Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, majoring in International Political Economy and intending to minor in Spanish. Isabelle is so incredibly grateful for this opportunity to be your USG of Councils (obviously the best organ but you didn’t hear that from her) and she cannot wait to see you in Washington this fall!