Proposal

For my project, I will be going to a Model Organization of American States conference in Washington D.C. to create a resolution on how to diminish drug trafficking in the Americas. Mr. Mullaney will be overseeing me as I research, draft a resolution, and attend the conference. A finalized resolution will result from the work and it will hopefully be passed in the committee of the conference. I can use this for my topic because it is a possible way to diminish drug trafficking and a resolution that has been created to diminish drug trafficking. After I come back from the conference, I will do my presentation on the effects of drug trafficking in the Americas and government. This along with the resolution and conference will be the way for me to complete the project. I will need to finish the draft resolutions by the dates provided by the MOAS, which includes researching the topic, writing the resolution, revising the resolution, then persuading the rest of the committee to agree with your resolution. It will be many hours drafting and debating the resolution along with researching. My research topic is on how governments in the Americas are effected by the drug cartels in their countries creating violence between the countries. This violence is creating problems for the governments since it is creating a trade of illegal drugs for illegal weapons. I chose this topic because I am in the MOAS at our school and am already drafting a resolution for the model conference, so I decided to take it a step further and do a project for after I get back from the conference to present. My essential question is how does drug trafficking throughout the Americas affect the governments of the countries? I have had prior experiences in the MOAS, but not with this topic before, I was in other committees in previous years that did resolution for different hemispheric issues. My resolution will benefit from my research because the more and better quality of my research the more of a chance to get my resolution passed at the conference, which in turn, will help me have a better quality project at the end of the semester. I have already found three scholarly sources that are different papers written by people in the government to other countries governments to hit the problem of drugs head on to stop the violence and control of drug cartels. Also, they talk about how if the demand in the U.S. stops then virtually all the cartels will run out of money and the control will go back to the governments.