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  • This house as the Southern African Development Community would implement Operation Create Democracy.

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    'Operation Create Democracy' is a hypothetical military intervention by Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries to force eSwatini to hold democratic elections for its government and head of state. this operation is similar to 'Operation Restore Democracy' in 2017 where Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) nations sent troops to The Gambia to uphold the result of a democratic election and 'Operation Uphold Democracy' in 1994 where the United States and Argentina sent troops to Haiti to overthrow a military regime that ousted a democratic president.

    Southern Africa National Universities Debating Championships 2021 · Open Final · 2021-08-06

  • This Parliament considers Trade Not Aid to be more effective in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of developing countries than development assistance.

    CSDC MIXUP 1.0 · Open Final · 2021-08-04

  • This house believes that the African Union should attempt to contain growing Gulf* influence in the horn of Africa**

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    * Gulf States refer to Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. ** States in the horn of Africa include Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea.

    WSDC 2021 · 3 · 2021-07-28

  • In situations of transitional justice this house would give amnesty to individuals on trial for human rights abuses in exchange for full disclosure of the individual's actions

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    Transitional justice consists of judicial and non-judicial measures implemented in order to redress legacies of human rights abuses e.g. The Nuremberg Trials after the fall of Nazi Germany or the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the end of Apartheid South Africa.

    September BP Open · Open Final · 2021-07-26

  • This house supports the United States’ foreign policy becoming increasingly isolationist.

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    For much of the mid to late 20th century and early 21st century the United States has had a fairly interventionalist foreign policy position with military interventions in Asia Africa and the Middle East. Under the last Presidencies US foreign policy has shifted towards more non-interventionalist or isolationist positions. this included the US withdrawal from Syria beginning in 2019 the US withdrawal from Iraq beginning in 2020 and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Isolationism is also associated with a withdrawal from multilateral and bilateral organisations such as the US withdrawal from the Trade Pacific Partnership the Iran Deal and the Paris Agreement.

    Asia Schools Open - Summer 2021 · U16 Final · 2021-07-24

  • As past colonies of European countries this house would not use the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

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    Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Janssen Vaccines in Leiden in The Netherlands and its Belgian parent company Janssen Pharmaceuticals subsidiary of American company Johnson & Johnson (J&J). On 29 January 2021 Janssen announced that the vaccine was 66% effective in a one-dose regimen in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 with an 85% efficacy in preventing severe COVID-19. With lower costs and lower requirements of storage and distribution in comparison to the COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be more easily transported stored and administered. It plays an important role in low and middle-income countries in combating COVID-19. However the developer of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Janssen Pharmaceuticals was built upon the Belgian Imperialism in the late 1800s to early 1900s. The technology and researches used to build the vaccine today (and any other essential medicine that Janssen Pharmaceuticals made) was from the accumulation of knowledge and past researches of the Institute of Tropical Medicine founded by King Leopold during his imperialism in Congo. The money used to found the Institute of Tropical Medicine at that time were from the extortion of resources in Congo done with inhumane methods such as slavery torture and other inhumane practices.

    Gadjah Mada Debating Championship 2021 · Open Final · 2021-07-18

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

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    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 industrialised country in Africa, but also the country with the worst income inequality in the world. Black South Africans own only 4% of private land

    World Debate Open 2021 · 3 · 2021-07-08

  • This house believes that France should militarily intervene in Mali

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    Mali fell under French colonial rule in 1893, up until 1960 where after active resistance it had its first President as an independent country. Last monThis house, Mali’s transitional president and prime minister were arrested by members of Mali’s military, hours after a cabinet reshuffle which left out two supporters of the junta who had seized power in September. West Africa’s ECOWAS bloc has called for the immediate release of President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and urged its transitional government “to resume its course and conclude within the established timeframe.”

    Rahat Fundraiser 2021 · 4 · 2021-07-02

  • This house supports the creation of the African Monetary Union

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    The African Monetary Union (AMU) is the proposed creation of an economic and monetary union for the countries of the African Union, administered by the African Central Bank. Such a union would call for the creation of a new unified currency, similar to the euro; the hypothetical currency is sometimes referred to as the afro or afriq.

    ANU Spring · Open Semis · 2021-06-18

  • This house regrets the creation of the NDB

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    The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank, is a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The main goal of the NBD is to promote infrastructure and sustainable development. The NBD does not require changes in the public policy of the recipient of the loan.

    NAWGMDC · 3 · 2021-06-12

  • This house supports military coups as tools to usher in replacement constitutional democracies

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    The Zimbabwean military coup d’état in November 2017 by factions of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF) forced the resignation of former President Robert Mugabe, a week after he had dismissed his vice-president Mnangagwa. Less than a week following the coup, Mnangagwa was sworn in as interim president to serve the remainder of Mugabe’s term before re-elections would be held. The recent Zimbabwean coup thus serves as an example of a military coup that was followed by a swift handover of power to a constitutionally designated authority

    RMPD · Open Octos · 2021-06-11

  • This house deplores the dominance of the Green Revolution in South-South environmental cooperation.

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    Cooperation between countries of the global South (South-South) is presented through a framework of solidarity that proposes pragmatic positions in relation to mutual benefits for developing countries. Currently the dominant approach (framework) of South-South environmental cooperation focuses on the export of the Green Revolution; modernization process through which China, Brazil and India have achieved efficiency, productivity and agricultural competitiveness. The model is presented as the way to achieve agricultural development and seeks to be replicated through foreign direct investment, transfers and adaptation of technology, experimentation and creation of technology from the souThis house, etc. Examples of this model are the creation of agricultural technology demonstration centers in which the best Chinese technology is used in African territory, replacing traditional local processes and products. As well as the transfer of land to the Indian government for a period of 50 years to invest in capital and technology in agricultural development.

    Pre TUD 2021 · Open Semis · 2021-06-01

  • Assuming that the policies are exclusive, the Saharawis should continue their struggle prioritizing the recovery of the territory rather than demanding the holding of the referendum.

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    Western Sahara appears on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories or pending decolonization but has been recognized by more than 80 countries. In 1976, with the Madrid Agreement, Spain ended its presence in Western Sahara, renouncing its responsibilities with respect to the territory, thus leaving it de facto under the administration of Morocco and Mauritania in the areas that each of them controlled in exchange for contracts for the exploitation of natural resources such as phosphate, oil and fishing that continues today. Within the agreement, a referendum was promised to the people of Western Sahara (Saharawis) to define their independence consented by the signatory parties. The referendum has never been held due to delays by Morocco, whose current position is to deny it and instead celebrate an autonomy agreement but under Moroccan sovereignty. Many Saharawis have been forced to live in refugee camps in the middle of the Algerian desert in the face of Moroccan repression and persecution, but in 2020 they decided to take up arms against Morocco. However, there is a great asymmetry in human, arms and economic resources.

    Torneo de Otoño 2021 · Open Semis · 2021-05-21

  • This house believes that African countries should have an economic approach that seeks to maximize net economic gain even at the expense of structural employment ( eg promoting free trade agreements encouraging the automation of labor deregulating labor laws etc)

    Africa Schools Debate Rumble 2021 · 4 · 2021-05-19

  • This house opposes the adoption of a common currency by ECOWAS.

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    The Eco is the proposed common currency that the West African Monetary Zone. There are plans to introduce the currency in the framework of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). this objective is to create a common currency for all West Africa states.

    Pretoria Parley Invitational 2021 · 5 · 2021-05-15