Oakridge Bengaluru’s OAK MUN 2025 marks 10 years of student-led global leadership celebrates the 10th edition of the prestigious Model United Nations conference at Oakridge International School in Bengaluru. With more than 350 delegates coming from many schools (some from abroad too), the 2025 event show the school’s decade long commitment for nurturing student leadership through global dialogue.

Model United Nations (MUN) is often called as a “classroom without walls,” where students role-play like diplomats, deals with real global challenges, and learn negotiation, empathy, compromise and articulation. Education experts says that participation in MUN enhance critical thinking, resilience and also perspective-taking, because it push students to represent views which not always same as their own.

Over the years, OAK MUN has turn from a small school-level forum into a regional benchmark events. Even in its 10th edition, conference attracted delegates from eight schools, including Nord Anglia sister institutes in Cambodia and Bachupally. The theme in 2025 was “Voices That Won’t Wait,” showing the urgency for youth to be involve in global affairs.

Leadership among students is highlight through important roles: Soumyajit Sur Roy was Secretary General; Akshat Shanker and Rishita Borah working as Director Generals. At the opening, Ambassador N. Parthasarathi, a ex Indian Foreign Service officer, gave keynote where he told delegates to use dialogue, persuasion and compromise not force as the right tools of diplomacy.

For two days, delegates joined in multiple committees UN Human Rights Council, ECOSOC, Security Council, Disarmament and International Security, International Court of Justice, and even a simulated All India Political Parties Meet. Students worked with tough global dilemmas, negotiated resolutions, and polish their skills in a real-like diplomatic setup.

Feedback from many participants told about smooth logistics, interesting crisis simulations and good organization. One student from Hyderabad called the “night crisis” module a new and exciting addition. At the closing, Aryan Ghosh (founder of EDMO) pointed that innovation, leadership and collaboration together can tackle the hardest world problems.

Looking back, Oakridge’s Principal said the school has change MUN from just a yearly event into a legacy. It now inspire students not only to think critically but also to act with empathy, conviction and a sense of global awareness.