Directive Guide
Hey everyone, we’ve prepared this guide to explain directives comprehensively
and act as a reference point to this form of paperwork. This guide should
enable you to send in the very best plans of action and achieve outcomes in
committee that drive committee forward, while fulfilling your own foreign
policy.
We’ve attached a number of examples as well, so that you understand the
nuances required in directive writing and the level of detailing required.
Even though this document may be long, we suggest everyone to go through
it and refer to it whenever required.
This guide is divided into three sections, explaining:
1) Explanation of Directives
2) Individual & Joint Directives
3) Press Releases
Directives:
As the name suggests, a directives is a piece of paper/document that have a
list of directions/actions that one must take.
A major question which arises: Why send in directives? What do directives
achieve and what is their purpose?
Simply and bluntly put, they aim to achieve your ulterior motive in committee.
They aim to fulfil your foreign policy and achieve major gains for you tactically
in the world order. You could potentially destabilize countries and further your
own stance in the international community. This becomes especially important
in a committee during our timeline, with ideological clashes taking place in the
world. Even by simply sending in troops to the Indo-Pak border, a delegate can
is achieving a potential gain for India, through which he may further attack his
rival state or defend his own nation. This would further be explained in the
examples, through which you’d understand the creative action one could take.
The format we’ll be following in our committee is simple:
Individual/Joint Directive
Type: Public/Private
From: Your country’s name(multiple, if Joint).
To: Executive Board
1) Action
2) Action
3) Action with subclauses:
a) Action
b) Action
c) Action
This is the brief structure, and with the many examples, you’d fully understand
how they’re written.
You’ll write this on paper and send it in, and directives would be a crucial part
of your final marking and evaluation which decide your awards.
Purpose:
Directives are written in two instances:
1) To trigger an update
2) To respond to an update
In the first category, we’ve allowed you to send in directives with actions which
could lead to development in real time, which means that we may also make
committee aware of such by giving it as an update in committee.
In the second type, you can take action to respond to a development. For
example, if an update is given that there has been heavy shelling and bombings
by Pakistani forces on the Indo-Pak border, the delegate of India would send a
directive to increase military presence in the region to counteract the attack.
The examples we’ve given are very basic and we expect delegates to come up
with more comprehensive and creative plans and send in more detailed
directives.
Detailing:
This is a part where novice and delegates alike seem to lack and is a major
problem that must be addressed for our committee.
Your actions require essential details. If you’re sending troops to a location,
you must specify troops from which base, battalion, where they’d be going and
even possible, through which route.
If you’re planning to bomb a military base using the air-force planes, you would
have to specify which planes would be used, which base they’d be scrambled
from, which location/base they’d attack.
Have a good idea of your plan and ask yourself what details you’d need to
implement this.
Now, this may seem a bit overwhelming; however, these details are very very
easy to find.
They’re literally all available on Wikipedia , so simple printing out and
understand this information would be easy to find.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_Navy_bases
Other such information is available and would be imperative research for the
conference.
Salient Features of a Directive:-
1) Must be very well detailed with all necessary details mentioned
2) Must follow a logical link throughout
3) Must be extremely creative
4) Must fulfil your country’s policy and achieve potential gains
5) Must be tangible and logically executable
6) Must use resources of bodies and organs over which your nations have
control
7) Must not be over-used and sent needlessly
Individual Directives:
These are directives sent only be one nation.These are the ones usually sent to
instigate crisis updates and entail covert action.
Joint Directives:
These are sent in by multiple delegates.
These can be used to conduct coalition military strikes or even get into
secretive deals with various nations. Your nations can also send in
arms/ammunition and supplies to others through these. Another use of these
would be to make alliances and deals with other nations.
Press Releases:
Sometimes a committee will decide to pass a Press Release as a response to a
crisis update. Press Releases may be passed independently or they may be
linked to an action taken in a directive. The purpose of a Press Release is to
inform the public as well as other members of the committee of actions or
express condolence, frustration, or condemnation.
The goal of a Press Release, aside from informing the public, is also to influence
public sentiment.
An example could be a press release informing the committee about sanctions
taken against another nation. In such a case the directive stating the same
must be sent before.
In other cases, if say the delegates of USA and UK are deciding to issue a press
release condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, no action is being talked
about hence this does not need to be linked with a directive.
