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This house believes that Five Eyes should enter into cooperative agreements with non-state actors.
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Five Eyes is an intelligence sharing agreement between the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. There are a number of informal cooperative agreements with other governments (e.g. Singapore, France, and Denmark) that Five Eyes works with on a case-by-case basis when their incentives are aligned. These cooperations often involve sharing intelligence or the planning of covert operations. Currently, Five Eyes' has no cooperative agreements with non-state actors.

Ottawa IV 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-02-01
This House Regrets IMF structural adjustment programs* in African nations. *Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) are economic reforms implemented by countries as a condition for receiving financial assistance from international institutions like the IMF and World Bank. These policies typically include reducing government spending, privatizing state-owned enterprises, liberalizing trade, devaluing currency, and encouraging foreign investment.
2nd Qatar Schools Debate League Boys 24-25 · Round 4 · 2025-02-01
This house believes that Donald Trump escalating tensions with China will do more harm than good for countries in and around the South China Sea
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The South China Sea is bordered by Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Copenhagen Open 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-02-01
This house Hopes that Greenland votes in favour of independence by 2028
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Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. However, Denmark retains control over areas such as foreign policy and defence. For the purpose of this debate, Denmark has agreed to a referendum on Greenlandic independence.

Copenhagen Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-02-01
This house would require multinational corporations to pay taxes primarily in countries where their production occurs rather than where intellectual property is held
Copenhagen Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-02-01
This house believes that the removal of the Assad regime in Syria is in the interests of the U.S.
Western World Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-01-31
This house believes that UN should militarily intervene to stop and/or reverse forced population transfers of ethnic populations during times of conflict
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Forced population transfers involve the mass displacement of people through deportation, ethnic cleansing, strategic resettlement, etc.

13th Justice V.M. Tarkunde National Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Open Grand Final · 2025-01-31
In states with rising levels of illegal immigration, This house supports governments placing tariffs on imports from the host countries of illegal immigrants conditional on such countries curbing illegal immigration
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For the purposes of this debate, conditional tariffs refer to import restrictions which countries place conditional on the exporting country not complying with certain demands made by the importing country.

13th Justice V.M. Tarkunde National Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Open Semi Finals · 2025-01-31
This house believes that the Congolese Government should offer joint control of all mining operations in EasternDRC to the M23 in exchange for a ceasefire.
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The Eastern Region of Congo, rich in minerals such as Cobalt, Gold and Coltan, has been the hotbed of a civil conflict between Rwanda and the DemocraticRepublic of Congo. Groups such as the M23 rebels have waged an armed conflict against the Congolese Government, blaming them for persecuting the ethnic Tutsi minority in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The M23 has captured territories in Northern Congo, and recently carried out a successful incursion into Goma, the largest city in Eastern Congo with a population of over 2 million. The Government of Rwanda, despite denying any association, has been blamed by international authorities for backing the M23.

13th Justice V.M. Tarkunde National Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Open Semi Finals · 2025-01-31
This house would require all decisions to enter into and leave international agreements to be passed by national referendum before being implemented
13th Justice V.M. Tarkunde National Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-01-31
This house believes that it is in Syria’s interest to normalise relations with Russia post the fall of BasharAl Assad’s regime
- International Relations
- Middle East
13th Justice V.M. Tarkunde National Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Open Semi Finals · 2025-01-31
In extreme circumstances, This house would allow the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces to invade and to hold the said territories as a protected territory of United Nations
Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Harvest Semifinals · 2025-01-25
This house regrets the Treaty of Paris
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The Treaty of Paris was a treaty between the Kingdom of Spain and the United States of America where in exchange for peace, the Kingdom of Spain relinquished its control of the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and Cuba to the USA. Included in the stipulations also was the turning over of Kingdom of Spain’s control of the Philippine territory to the Americans in exchange for 20 million dollars.

Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Pagdayo Grand Finals · 2025-01-25
For health care emergencies requiring collective action (e.g. pandemics, pollution-related illness, etc.), This house would grant the WHO the ability to implement international laws that override sovereign laws
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. Its mission is to promote health, respond to global health emergencies, and address major health challenges. The WHO provides guidelines, research, and technical support to help countries strengthen their health systems. Currently, the WHO has no enforcement powers and relies on countries voluntarily following its recommendations.

Birmingham Pro-Am 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-01-25
This house believes that the West should militarily intervene in Yemen
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The fighting between Houthi rebels and the Saudi coalition that supports Yemen's internationally recognized government has mostly calmed, but the Houthis have frequently targeted ships traversing the Red Sea in reaction to Israel's conflict in Palestine. Dialogue between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, combined with Iranian-Saudi reconciliation, has raised hopes for a diplomatic settlement. However, negotiations have made little progress and have been marred by violence. Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation has not improved; 21.6 million people, including 11 million children, require assistance, and more than 4.5 million are displaced. Currently Yemen is a heavily divided state. Houthis currently control the capital Sanaa and all of former North Yemen except for eastern Marib Governorate. On the other hand, the Southern Transitional Council holds the southern part of Yemen and most of the east. Complicating this, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) surged more attacks in recent years and now holds smaller territories in the eastern region, exacerbated by sporadic attacks from the terrorist group ISIS.

Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Harvest Semifinals · 2025-01-25
This house, as an extremist rebel group, W heavily shift strategy from guerilla warfare to cyberwarfare
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Cyberwarfare is the use of cyber attacks against an enemy state by disrupting systems, influencing economic infrastructures, manipulating digital spaces, and sabotaging key financial institutions that exist virtually.

Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Round 2 · 2025-01-25
This house believes that that it is in the interest of the Philippine Government to heavily invest in local firearms production
Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Round 2 · 2025-01-25
This house, as a losing country in a war, W employ a scorched earth strategy.
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Scorched earth strategy is the act of destroying everything that the enemy can use to help itself within the territory that they conquered. This includes poisoning water supplies before retreating, sabotaging dams to induce flooding, detonating bombs in defensible areas, etc.

Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Harvest Semifinals · 2025-01-25
With the benefit of hindsight, This house, as Hong Kong, would have chosen to stay under the rule of Britain over the rule of China
Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Pagdayo Grand Finals · 2025-01-25
This house, as Putin, will annex more territories in Georgia
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Currently, 20% of the internationally recognized territories of Georgia is under the quasi-occupation of the Russian Federation. There have been past discussions about Georgia’s accession to the European Union, but in November 2024, Georgia’s bid to EU accession was postponed by its own Government and is speculated to restart in 2028.

Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Pagdayo Grand Finals · 2025-01-25