Sunday, November 30, 2014

12th International Debate Academy Slovenia - Tournament & Workshop 2014

12TH INTERNATIONAL DEBATE ACADEMY SLOVENIA
WORKSHOP KRANJSKA GORA, TOURNAMENT LJUBLJANA

Faculty assembled a list of 130+ motions and then voted and discussed. Here are the results.

Final
TH regrets the characterisation of soldiers as heroes.

Semifinals
THW welcome a Kurdish state.

Quarterfinals
THBT feminists in the developing world should campaign for economic and political rights not gender rights.

Round One
THW, in countries that severely limit civilian access to firearms, arm police with only non-lethal weapons.

Round Two
THW abolish patents on life-saving medicines

Round Three
THBT democracies should place strict limits on financial campaign contributions.

Round Four
THB space exploration is a waste of taxpayers' money

Round Five
THBT NATO should be abolished.*

Round Six
THW revoke the citizenship of those who travel abroad to join the Islamic State.

PRACTICE MOTIONS (some of them)
ECOLOGICAL, SPEECH
THB climate change denial should be treated the same way as Holocaust denial Practice

DEVELOPMENT
THW require population limits for poor countries as a condition for financial aid Practice

LABOR
THW make unions obligatory for every worker Practice

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
THBT Vladimir Putin is a serious threat to global security. Practice

ECONOMIC, INTERNATIONAL
THBT the EU should pay the Ukrainian gas bills. Practice

LAW ENFORCEMENT
THW create state supported citizen vigilante units to police crime in areas of high organised crime Practice

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