Harvard International Relations Council
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| Abbreviation | HIRC |
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| Formation | 1955 |
| Type | NGO |
| Purpose | Education |
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Official language
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English |
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President
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Delany Sisiruca |
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Main organ
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Board of Directors |
| Affiliations | United Nations Department of Public Information |
The Harvard International Relations Council (HIRC) is a non-profit organization that promotes awareness of international relations. It is composed as several semi-independent but centrally funded programs, which each promote awareness of international relations in different ways. Those programs are Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN), Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN), the Harvard International Review (HIR), the Harvard Program in International Education (HPIE), Harvard Intercollegiate Model United Nations (ICMUN),Harvard International Relations on Campus (IRoC), and Model Security Council (MSC).
HIRC is the largest student organization at Harvard College. It is a registered 501(c)(3) that is run entirely by undergraduate students, and it is an affiliated non-governmental organization with the United Nations Department of Public Information.
IRC Corporate Officers head critical IRC operations that allow the IRC to fulfill its mission of promoting international education and social impact, to manage its programs in a financially sound and sustainable manner, and to maintain its status as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and an accredited NGO with the United Nations Department of Public Information. IRC Corporate Officers are elected by the Board of Directors and hold their corporate position until the election of a new Board of Directors.
The IRC Central vice-presidential staff is the internal logistical staff of the IRC, on a whole. Vice presidents report directly to the President of the IRC and carry out the inter-program initiatives proposed by the Board of Directors. The vice presidents are responsible for the behind-the-scenes operations of the IRC.
Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN) is one of the oldest and most prestigious Model United Nations simulations in the world. It was founded in 1953 when the Harvard student group that had been simulating the League of Nations since the 1920s decided to start a new simulation to reflect the new organization that had been established at the end of World War II. Every year, students from around the world attend the conference, which is currently held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The next session of HMUN will be the sixty-fourth session, and it will be held from January 26 to January 29 2017. Due to conference expansion, HMUN 2017 will be the largest conference in its storied history, with over 3300 delegates in attendance. As such, the conference will also hold committee sessions at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.
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