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Relevant specialist skills may include risk identification and assessment, systems modelling, participatory methods and risk mitigation policy, with interests in areas such as emerging technologies, global systems breakdown, disaster risk management, or international security.

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The session also marked several firsts:
• the first year this elective ran in the MPhil programme
• the first university-level UNSC simulation on AMOC collapse
• the first time a multilateral response to this risk, and through the UN system, was formulated

The exercise provided hands-on insight into how multilateral cooperation—with both its strengths and limitations—could advance the governance of global catastrophic risks, particularly where scientific urgency meets geopolitical constraints.

Students represented UNSC member states, drafted position papers, debated national positions, and negotiated a formal Security Council response. They ultimately adopted a resolution identifying AMOC collapse as a major security issue requiring coordinated global action through the UN system.

The module was convened by Dr Kennedy Mbeva, with Dr Alana Weir and Dr Elena Kavanagh as part of the teaching team.
Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, a leading climate scientist and AMOC expert, delivered a guest lecture.

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