I’m the Deputy Director of a Youth Summit in New Delhi and the committees we designed might be some of the most intense debates students will have this year.

So for the past few months I’ve been helping organize a youth summit called BGYS (Bharat Global Youth Summit) and something interesting happened while we were designing the committees.

Most student conferences and MUNs play it very safe with their agendas.

You’ll usually see things like:
“Promoting global cooperation”
“Ensuring sustainable development”

Important topics, sure — but they rarely create real tension or strategic debate.

So we decided to design committees that force delegates to deal with serious geopolitical, constitutional, and societal dilemmas.

Some of the debates delegates will face:

UN Security Council (UNSC)
A crisis-style debate around a hypothetical 2025–2026 US military intervention in Venezuela.

Delegates will have to deal with things like:
• Capture of President Nicolás Maduro
• Seizure of oil tankers
• Maritime blockades
• Questions of sovereignty vs intervention
• Whether the use of force can ever be justified under international law

Basically the type of debate where alliances break every hour.

UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)

This committee focuses on state crackdowns on protests and civil liberties.

Delegates will be discussing questions like:

• When does maintaining public order become repression?
• Are international accountability mechanisms actually effective?
• How should governments balance stability with freedom of expression?

UN Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW)

Instead of a generic gender equality discussion, this committee dives into why women remain underrepresented in leadership positions globally.

Topics include:
• Structural political barriers
• Economic barriers to leadership
• Whether representation policies actually translate into real power

All India Stakeholders’ Meet (AISM)

This one is probably the most unique.

Instead of a UN format, it simulates a domestic policy negotiation inside India.

Delegates will debate the Women’s Reservation Act 2023 and questions like:

• Why its implementation has been delayed
• Whether reservation actually leads to real political power
• Constitutional challenges in implementing it across states

It’s less diplomacy and more raw political negotiation.

We also wanted the summit to be more than just debates, so we added competitions like:

Shark Tank – teams pitch startup ideas to judges
Sur Taal – music performances
Natyamanthan – dance competition

The idea was to create one summit where diplomacy, entrepreneurship, and arts all exist together.

I’m curious though:

For people who attend conferences like this — what actually makes a summit unforgettable?

Is it:

• intense committees
• strong delegates
• networking
• or the overall experience

Would genuinely love to hear what people here think.

Also if anyone is curious about the summit itself, happy to share details.