[DRAFT]Commend International Democratic Union

[Fauxia]

Yay, a commendation. Shoot me down before I shoot myself in the foot, please.

Commend International Democratic Union

Author: Fauxia I Category: Commendation I Nominee: International Democratic Union

The Security Council,

Acknowledging International Democratic Union as a community that centers itself around the General Assembly, and as a region whose members have authored more than one tenth of all General Assembly resolutions, including (but not limited to):

• Prevention Of Child Abuse, which instituted protections for legal minors against physical and psychological harm,
• Responsibility In Transferring Arms, which combined safe regulation of arms trading with the overall freedom of nations to dictate their own policies, and
• Ozone Layer Protection, which instituted much-needed international protection of an environmental component frequently in danger

Thanking International Democratic Union for fostering a community focused on the betterment of international law, and its openness to improving proposals to the General Assembly, including sections of the regional forums dedicated to World Assembly proposals and frequent activity on the international forums,

Impressed by International Democratic Union's contributions to daily issues, on topics such as graffiti artists, as in Leader, Don't Tear Down That Wall! by Bears Armed or, fittingly, international obligations, as in Wag The Dog by Separatist Peoples,

Entertained by International Democratic Union's acclaimed films, which are celebrated in the annual film festival,

Salivating at the thought of International Democratic Union's renowned cheeses and cheese products, which again are compared in an annual festival,

Rewarding International Democratic Union for its legal, artistic, and culinary contributions to the international community,

Hereby commends International Democratic Union.

Commend International Democratic Union

Author: Fauxia I Category: Commendation I Nominee: International Democratic Union

The Security Council,

Thankful to those nations and regions that have contributed international legislation, in both the Security Council and the General Assembly,

Acknowledging International Democratic Union as a community that centers itself around the General Assembly, and whose members have written more than 50 general assembly resolutions, to date, many written by nations already commended by the Security Council, such as Sciongrad and Separatist Peoples,

Realizing that commendations based on world assembly contributions are usually given to nations, not regions,

Believing, however, that International Democratic Union should be an exception to this rule due to its especially keen interest and prolific contributions to the World Assembly, and as a community that has surely assisted each other in authoring legislation for the General Assembly,

Impressed further by the somewhat less prolific, yet still noteworthy contributions of International Democratic Union to daily national issues, as a region that has authored more than thirty issues to date, including on the topic of International Incidents and, fittingly, the World Assembly itself,

Hoping to reward International Democratic Union for its fostering of a community that has greatly assisted international law,

Hereby commends International Democratic Union

[Lenlyvit]

I think its well written. I don't know the history of IDU, but the way its written I am in full support o/

[Fauxia]

I think its well written. I don't know the history of IDU, but the way its written I am in full support o/

Thanks Lenly!

[Octuagesimo]

Are you allowed to reference meta stuff like issues in WA proposals?

[Fauxia]

Are you allowed to reference meta stuff like issues in WA proposals?

Yes in the Security Council. for example: https://www.nationstates.net/page=WA_pa ... /council=2

Do y'all think I should include some specific examples of issues and/or GA resolutions?

[Lenlyvit]

Are you allowed to reference meta stuff like issues in WA proposals?

Yes in the Security Council. for example: https://www.nationstates.net/page=WA_pa ... /council=2

Do y'all think I should include some specific examples of issues and/or GA resolutions?

I would pick the most impactful ones of each and include a list. Remember, you have 5,000 characters to work with including spaces and bbcode

[Fauxia]

Yes in the Security Council. for example: https://www.nationstates.net/page=WA_pa ... /council=2

Do y'all think I should include some specific examples of issues and/or GA resolutions?

I would pick the most impactful ones of each and include a list. Remember, you have 5,000 characters to work with including spaces and bbcode

Alright, will work that in.

[Chricoma]

I support, if you add what they've done

[Lord Dominator]

Support, assuming we get a regional rep or three to say it looks fine

[Willania Imperium]

Hey! That's pretty good!

You have my support.

[Ransium]

When I was going to do this I was going to list each author in IDU’s number of resolutions also minding historic resolutions. I’ll try to dig up my notes today, but just saying “more than 50” seems lazy and doesn’t do the region justice IMO. Also indcluding Sep a relative newcomer to IDU and not Bears Armed who’s been there as long as I’ve been in Forest (or close to it) is wrong.

A stronger argument of how resolution writing is a community effort is needed and could be made.

Some history of IDU should be included, I have some research which could be included. I’ll attach is later.

Refrence to an International Incident is R1 since Sanc was an IE when he worked on it. Some issue mention is okay since there are at least three non-IE authors in IDU. But the total number of legal issues is probably around 10.

It’s a start but it needs more work and research to be the commend IDU deserves.

[Bears Armed]

Some history of IDU should be included, I have some research which could be included. I’ll attach is later.

Maybeso you might also mention the annual International Cheese Festival and annual International Film Festival, both of which have categories open to nations from outside the region as well as ones for IDU members and allow all nations with entries to vote for all categories. Admittedly they've only been run twice each so far, unless one counts the original Cheese Festival which was 10 years earlier, but I think that we've now set a pattern that we'll keep following...

Refrence to an International Incident is R1 since Sanc was an IE when he worked on it. Some issue mention is okay since there are at least three non-IE authors in IDU. But the total number of legal issues is probably around 10.

Including Sanc's first two, which date from before he became an IE; and excluding all of Gnej's because he was made an IE while the first of them was still being edited? I make it 9 so far...

[Fauxia]

Alright, thanks Ransium and BA! Will update accordingly.

[Laeral]

When I was going to do this I was going to list each author in IDU’s number of resolutions also minding historic resolutions. I’ll try to dig up my notes today, but just saying “more than 50” seems lazy and doesn’t do the region justice IMO. Also indcluding Sep a relative newcomer to IDU and not Bears Armed who’s been there as long as I’ve been in Forest (or close to it) is wrong.

A stronger argument of how resolution writing is a community effort is needed and could be made.

Some history of IDU should be included, I have some research which could be included. I’ll attach is later.

Refrence to an International Incident is R1 since Sanc was an IE when he worked on it. Some issue mention is okay since there are at least three non-IE authors in IDU. But the total number of legal issues is probably around 10.

It’s a start but it needs more work and research to be the commend IDU deserves.

Our main regional page does have a dispatch tracking GA resolutions and another tracking issues written by IDU authors. It doesn't include historical resolutions, though.

A statistic you could use- around 11% of all GA resolutions ever written were written by IDU members.

[Fauxia]

New draft out, what do you guys think?

[Kozmix]

New draft out, what do you guys think?

It is a very cool draft (I love the last three clauses for sure). I just had one doubt, with respect to the Issue authorship: those seem like individual efforts of those particular people, so I don't know if that would qualify as a clause for regional commendation. Maybe it would be because of the environment of issue authorship or something?

Just a thought, but other than that, great draft.

[Fauxia]

On this as well, they have an issue drafting chamber.

I also know that just knowing people who have written issues can be a confidence booster. Will edit accordingly, however

[Ransium]

I still think you’re being really lazy with regard to WA contributions.

[Fauxia]

I still think you’re being really lazy with regard to WA contributions.

Can you elaborate?

Also, you said you’d attach some notes about the history of the IDU, can you do that?

[Ransium]

I have strong opinions about this because A) I like IDU a lot, and B) I was planning on writing this once upon a time before mod-hood myself. So please don't be insulted by my constructive feedback I just really want to see this pass and be of the caliber IDU deserves.

The whole thing is really short for a region with the history of IDU. You take a region that has, as you say, authored more than 10% of the proposals in the game and condense it into really two sentences and descriptions of three proposals which seem to be picked at random. You don't really describe what IDU has done as a region to promote their GA authorship communally, you make no effort to list the authors, even focusing on the most prominent ones etc. I like short proposals and hate unnecessary wordiness but you need to do more research and do a better job of presenting those facts. Similarly with the issues they seem haphazardly picked, you make no effort to find all the various authors and make no case as to why this is a community issue and not just a several nations that happen to reside in the same region. I would also take your cultural clauses and combine them. You should also establish them as international diplomacy since I know Forest and other regions have many times been reached out to participate in at least some of these events.

Unfortunately, although I know the rough outline of how IDU was established (refuges of a TNP coup) I've lost any more detailed notes. I thought I sent you or someone else links in the past to some forum post, but I can no longer find those messages, but I do think some description of their history is needed.

I also think you need to describe their regional democracy and the history of it as well.

Please spend the time developing this further before submitting.