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  • This house believes that countries transitioning to democracy should implement a "Pact of Forgetting"

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    The "Pact of Forgetting" (Pacto de Olvido) in Spain is an example of post-autocracy transition. After Franco's death, the left and right parties of Spain agreed not to confront the legacy of the civil war or fascism under Franco. This gave amnesty for crimes during the civil war and under fascism but also did not valorise or memorialise the Francoist regime.

    Cambridge Schools 2024 Finals Day · Semi-Finals · 2024-03-16

  • This house regrets the Protestant reformation

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    The Protestant Reformation, was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s. It resulted in the creation of a branch of Christianity called Protestantism, a name used collectively to refer to the many religious groups that separated from the Roman Catholic Church due to differences in doctrine.

    Cardiff Open 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-03-09

  • This House believes that new democracies should embrace the politics of forgetting rather than the politics of confronting

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    Info Slide: For the purposes of this debate, countries which embrace the “politics of forgetting” actively attempt to move on from the past. Such measures could include: granting amnesty to party members of former regimes, dissuading parties from publicly commenting on previous authoritarian governments, refusing to build public memorials to commemorate past conflicts, and skirting historical abuses in the educational curriculum. By contrast, countries which embrace the “politics of confronting” actively attempt to deal with the past. Such measures include: prosecuting leaders of former regimes, holding truth and reconciliation commissions, eliminating party members of past governments from civil bureaucracies, publicly memorializing past conflicts, and focusing on historical abuses in public schools.

    Middlebury IV 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-03-03

  • This alternative world is considered better than the current one.

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    "The Era of Great Geographical Discoveries - the discovery of the American continent in the 15th century. In an alternative world, the Old World part (Eurasia, Africa) knew nothing about America until man flew to space in 1961. The American continent was developing on its own."

    Қазақстан Пікірсайыс Чемпионаты 2024 · Гранд Финал · 2024-02-21

  • This house supports the promotion of collective guilt after large scale crimes against humanity (e.g. blaming all of Myanmar for the Rohingya genocide and not just the army and /or government)

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    Collective guilt is an emotion that people experience when their social group is perceived as having perpetrated immoral acts.

    Sunnydale Rhetoric 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-02-08

  • This house believes that the adaptation of historical events in modern-day mainstream Filipino media does more harm than good (MAMASAPANO: Now it Can Be Told, Made in Malacanang, GOMBURZA).

    Raul Roco Cup XVI · Round 7 · 2024-02-01

  • This house would destroy Mein Kampf Vol. II

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    This is a hypothetical scenario. You are a reputable journalist who has discovered the existence of 'Mein Kampf Vol. II' in which Hitler journals his thoughts reflecting his regrets, sympathy, and empathy aboutthe events of World War II. You are the only person who has, and will ever have access to this journal

    The 8th CBS Parliamentary Debate 2024 · Open Grand Finals · 2024-01-20

  • This house prefers a world where the ANC had more progressively pursued economic and land reparations during the negotiations in ending the apartheid "

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    Info Slide: The African National Congress (ANC) is the ruling party in South Africa. It has been in power since it negotiated with the governing National Party in 1993 to end apartheid, after 8 decades of struggle. At the time, the ANC prioritised securing legal and political rights, and the first democratic election was held in 1994. Today, South Africa is the most industrialized country in Africa, but also the country with the worst income inequality in the world. Black South Africans own only 4% of private land.

    Sondhis National Debating Championship 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-01-19

  • This house believes that that increased efforts to revive Confucianism is in the interests of the chinese communist party

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    Confucianism is based on the belief that human beings are essentially good, that they engage in immoral behavior through lack of a strong moral standard, and that adherence to an ethical code, and rituals which encourage it, enabled one to live a productive life of peace.

    DTU PD 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-01-06

  • This House supports implementing a Pact of Forgetting in post-conflict states

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    A Pact of Forgetting is a political agreement after the fall of a dictatorship. The pact is made between major political parties to avoid directly confronting the legacy of a dictatorship and the conflict which brought it to an end. It includes not prosecuting members of a former regime and agreeing to not commemorate any actions of that regime, and instead concentrating on the future. An example of this is the agreement in Spain between Franco-aligned right wing parties and new left wing parties after the end of Franco’s regime.

    Vietnam World Universities Debating Championships 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2023-12-31

  • In September 1991, This house believes that the government of the independent Latvia should have published this information

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    Between 1953 and 1992, the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennyi Besopasnosti - Committee of State Security) enlisted over 24 000 Latvians as collaborators and field agents. These individuals, often for money, were tasked with a range of responsibilities ranging from spying on neighbours and providing intelligence on potential threats to the Party. In 1991, during the movement for re-independence, the names of potential collaborators were found with details of what they'd allegedly done. These included the names of many politicians and business leaders.

    SSE Riga IV 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-12-09