Executive Board Code of Conduct

• Write and submit your study guide by the deadline set by the Secretariat. Our public commitment to publish on 11 September carries a financial penalty, and a late guide costs the conference money.
• Know your agenda properly. Delegates will arrive having read the guide you wrote and are entitled to a chair who knows more than they do.
• Know the rules of procedure you are running. UN committees follow UN4MUN and UNA-USA conventions. Indian committees follow the procedure of the houses they simulate. You do not get to invent a house variant mid session.

• Declare any conflict of interest to the Secretariat before allotments are finalised. This includes delegates from your own institution, close friends, relatives, students you have taught or trained, and anyone you have a personal relationship with.
• Do not share agendas, guides, portfolio allotments or any part of the marking approach with any delegate before they are public.
• Do not accept gifts, hospitality or favours from delegates, faculty or institutions.
• Recognition on the floor is distributed fairly. Persistently favouring the same voices is a breach of this code.

• Mark research, procedure, negotiation and drafting. Volume is not a criterion. A delegate who fills the speakers list with confident noise does not outrank one who wrote the clause the room voted on.
• Maintain your score sheet contemporaneously, during session, not reconstructed afterwards from memory. Every sheet is published seven days after the conference and must stand up to being read by the delegate it describes.
• Award only where the standard has been met. Any award, including Best Delegate, may be withheld. Do not hand out an award to keep a room happy.
• Award decisions are submitted to the Secretariat with written reasoning.

• Never humiliate a delegate. Cross questioning should be demanding, never demeaning, and there is a clear line between pressure and cruelty.
• Pay attention to first timers. A delegate who has stopped speaking has usually stopped for a reason and it is your job to notice.
• Never comment on a delegate's appearance, accent, background, institution or command of English.
• The dress, harassment, intoxication and substance rules in the Delegate Code of Conduct apply to you in full, and are enforced more strictly, not less.
• Do not contact delegates privately on personal channels during or after the conference in any manner that could be seen as inappropriate. Keep communication in official channels.

• Be present, on time, for every session and every briefing. If you cannot commit to both full days, do not apply.
• Follow the Secretariat's direction on timing, procedure and escalation.
• Raise any concern about a delegate, a colleague or the running of the conference with the Secretariat immediately, not on social media and not after the fact.
• Do not publicly criticise the conference, its delegates or its decisions while representing it.

Depending on severity, a breach may lead to a warning, reassignment, removal from the Executive Board during the conference, withdrawal of your certificate, and not being invited to sit again. A chair found to have marked unfairly will have their committee's scores reviewed by the Secretariat and corrected before publication.

Concerns about a chair may be raised with the Secretariat at sabarmatimun@gmail.com, or independently with our Executive Advisor and appellate authority, Mr. Manas Dowlani, whose decision is final and binding. This code is governed by the laws of India, and any dispute is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Indore, Madhya Pradesh.