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  • This House, as the captain of the youth women’s soccer team, would accept the offer.

    Infoslide

    You are the captain of the Bangladesh youth women’s soccer team that has just won the Asia Cup. In Bangladesh, women athletes often do not receive the institutional support or respect they deserve. Through your leadership, you have rallied your team to international acclaim. Recently, a Western European club has offered you a contract to play for them, which would mean prioritizing your professional career abroad over focusing on your national team.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-10

  • This house opposes linguistic nationalism

    Infoslide

    Linguistic nationalism is the belief that language is central to a nation's identity. This can be seen in the existence of national languages, historical programs of linguistic assimilation (eg. the French government making active efforts to eliminate Breton and Occitan language), and the differentiation of mutually intelligible languages on political grounds (splitting of Serbo-Croat into Serbian and Croatian, splitting of Hindustani into Urdu and Hindi)

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-08

  • This house believes that the CDU should abandon the cordon sanitaire against AfD

    Infoslide

    The CDU is Germany’s traditional governing party of the center-right, often compared to moderate conservative parties elsewhere in Europe. The AfD is a radical right populist party known for its nationalist, anti- immigration, and Eurosceptic positions. Cordon sanitaire in the German context refers to a strict refusal by all other parties to cooperate in any form or form any coalition with the AfD at any political level.

    Prague Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports the partition of Sudan

    Infoslide

    Sudan is currently in a state of civil war between two factions - the official military forces of Sudan (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). After a military offensive, the SAF has taken control of Sudan's capital Khartoum away from the RSF. The RSF remains in control of parts of the south of the country and nearly all of the large western region of Darfur. The RSF has unilaterally declared its own rival government.

    Prague Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports the use of 'political knifing' of the Visayas regions against the imperial Manila narrative

    Infoslide

    "Political knifing" can refer to the figurative use of damaging political tactics. Figuratively, it describes using political maneuvering, backstabbing, or sabotage to undermine opponents.

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · High School Semifinals · 2025-10-25

  • This house would implement ethnic federalism in post-conflict states with ethnic fragmentation

    Infoslide

    Ethnic federalism is a form of federal system in which the federated regional or state units are defined by ethnicity. Ethnic federal systems have been created in attempts to accommodate demands for ethnic autonomy and manage inter-ethnic tensions within a state. In ethnic federal systems, each ethnic region tends to enjoy high administrative freedom and control over policy.

    Autumn Tournament 2025 · ラウンド4 · 2025-10-18

  • This house supports school curricula prioritizing transnational narratives over national ones.

    Infoslide

    National narratives are educational approaches that structure the teaching of history with a focus on the events, processes, and characters of a single nation. Transnational narratives are approaches that organize the teaching of history based on phenomena that transcend national borders, such as economic exchanges, migrations, regional conflicts, international cooperation, and social transformations on a global scale.

    Curitiba Week of British Parliamentary 2025 · Rodada 3 · 2025-10-17

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the Republican Party to heavily prioritise the hawkish approach as opposed to the dovish approach in their foreign policy agenda in the run-up to the 2026 midterms

    Infoslide

    Within the Republican Party, foreign policy debates are shaped between hawkish and dovish approaches.The hawkish approach advocates for military intervention, robust defense spending, and global leadership through alliances and force projection. On the other hand, the dovish approach emphasizes military restraint, skepticism of foreign interventions, opposition to nation- building, and a preference for transactional diplomacy.

    MPSC Nationals 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-09

  • This house, as a post conflict state, W adopt the Juche ideology.

    Infoslide

    Juche is an ideology that prioritses the idea of self-reliance in the facets of military, economy as well as being productively self suffient. It emphasises the importance of the separation of state away from any outside influence, preserving national identity and a shared culture. It often does this by suppressing "Western impositions" such as religion, democracy and the class system.

    Vanguard Open 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-09-26