RESOLUTION EVALUATION CHECKLIST
Washington University Model
of the Organization of American States
____ 1. Plain white paper – No symbols, flags, or school references
____ 2. Grammar and punctuation consistent with Draft Resolution Template
____ 3. Headings—separate and unnumbered: HAVING SEEN:, RECALLING:, BEARING IN
MIND/CONSIDERING/RECOGNIZING:…
____ 4. RESOLVES: / RECOMMENDS: / DECLARES: Uses diplomatic language with verbs and
clauses of varying intensity
Mild: to congratulate, commend, acknowledge, praise…
Moderate: to advise, ask, request, recommend, study, suggest, continue, reiterate, call
upon, declare, …
Active: to propose, establish, form, create, amend, employ, set, provide, designate, instruct,
initiate, increase, decrease…
Forceful: (no orders to member states or their governments) to instruct, strongly urge,
require, authorize, eliminate, exempt,…
____ 5. Operative clauses are numbered, General to Specific, (each ends each with a period (.)
____ 6. Faculty Advisor’s Signature
____ 7. Five Co-signatories—Numbered
____ 8. Cites OAS charter, conventions, protocols, documents, OAS passed resolutions, rationale;
quotes these documents properly.
____ 9. Indicates appropriate sources and methods of funding.
____ 10. Is consistent with OAS issues, organizations, and regulations.
____ 11. Is consistent with current and existing statistics and data.
____ 12. Is consistent with the country’s, region’s and hemisphere’s concerns.
____ 13. Is pertinent to the Agenda topic.
____ 14. Is specific, well-defined and workable.
____ 15. Is realistic and creative.
____ 16. Makes clear what individual, body, or institution is to carry out the action.