2009 Baylor Model Organization of American States Team Wins Big at San Antonio Model! For more details see Press Release

Model Organization of American States (MOAS)

The Model Organization of American States (MOAS) for universities began 19 years ago, and a Model General Assembly for high schools quickly followed. The MOAS is an extracurricular activity in the fall semester and a three credit academic course in the spring semester. By participating in MOAS, students develop international public policies on issues affecting the Americas and apply theory learned in the classroom. They learn parliamentary procedures for debate, caucusing, how to function in working groups of countries that share common interests, and the operation of the committees that report to the General Assembly. They also learn how the Organization of American States (OAS) operates and the key economic, social, educational, political and security issues facing the Americas.

The purpose of the MOAS is to strengthen and accelerate the diffusion of knowledge about the OAS and its functions among the public. It has drawn student participation from a wide array of North American, Central American and South American universities.

The Baylor University MOAS program is an invaluable academic experience that provides interested students a special insight into the political, social, economic, and environmental concerns of the entire Western Hemisphere. Essentially, the MOAS program provides an opportunity for students to participate in a simulation of the OAS by serving as a country's representative to one of several critical OAS committees or commissions. Such committees or commissions include: Committee on Hemispheric Security, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Judicial Committee, Budget Committee, and Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission. Some of the topics discussed in these committees are terrorism, abuse of human rights and the Free Trade area of the Americas.

Since its creation in 1997, BaylorUniversity’s MOAS program has won numerous individual and team awards in competition in San Antonio, Texas, and at the OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. Moreover, Baylor students have played an increasingly important role in shaping the regional and international model.

For more information on how to join MOAS, click here.

2009 San Antonio Model Organization of American States Team