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  • That, as Rome, we should install a client king instead of provincialising Armenia

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    The year is 66 CE. Rome has just regained control of Armenia from Parthia, its powerful middle eastern rival. Armenia is a middle eastern kingdom that has passed between Roman and Parthian control for several decades. There are two Roman approaches to foreign policy in this period: installing loyal client kings, or forming provinces under Roman administration, which adopt Roman legal, taxation and military systems and are run by Roman officials.

    University of Sydney Union Grandslam 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-05-12

  • This house would choose to be born on North Sentinel Island over being born randomly somewhere else in the world.

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    North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, houses the Sentinalese, an isolated indigenous tribe that vigorously defends its seclusion from outsiders. If you are born on the North Sentinel Islands, basic food security is guaranteed and no climate-change related disasters will occur during your lifetime.

    HWS Round Robin 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-04-05

  • This house believes that the UK should have provided extensive military support to the independent state of Biafra.

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    In 1967, the Igbo people declared Biafra to be a state independent from Nigeria. Nigeria had recently gained independence from Britain. The Republic of Biafra received diplomatic, economic, and military support from several nations including France, Portugal, Israel, and South Africa. The Biafran government surrendered to the Nigerian army in 1970 after a destructive civil war.

    HWS Round Robin 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-04-05

  • This house prefers a world where post-colonial states adopted and use Interlanguages over the usage of colonial languages (e.g. English, French, etc.)

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    For the purposes of this debate, an Interlanguage is used for communication between speakers of similar languages which come from the same root language (e.g. Sanskrit).

    HWS Round Robin 2024 · Round 9 · 2024-04-05

  • This house prefers a world in which postcolonial African states had prioritised achieving economic and land reparations (e.g. active land redistribution, quotas, cash transfer programmes) over enshrining civil and political rights (e.g. rights to protest, vote, free speech, form associations, etc.)

    Glasgow Ancients 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-04-05

  • This House Supports the use of condominia in settling international territorial disputes (e.g. Guyana-Venezuela over Essequibo, Sudan-South Sudan over Abyei, Japan-Russia over Kuril Islands, Turkey-Cyprus over Northern Cyprus, etc.)

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    A condominium is a political territory in or over which multiple sovereign powers formally agree to share equal dominium and exercise their rights jointly, without dividing it into ""national"" zones."

    UCL IV 2024 · Partial Semifinals · 2024-03-23

  • That we oppose the automatic classification of social science research projects involving Indigenous participants as greater than low risk

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    Social science research involving human subjects requires ethics approval from an ethics board. Projects may be classified as low risk or greater than low risk. Greater than low risk projects require a lengthy and complex approval process. Research projects can be classified as greater than low risk because they will engage with participants about potentially sensitive topics such as mental health or illegal activities, or because the project will engage with people from groups deemed to be inherently vulnerable. In Australia, any projects involving Indigenous people as research subjects are automatically classified as greater than low risk.

    Melbourne Pre Easters 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-03-22

  • This house, as organized religion, will adopt the "proselyte mission scheme"

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    A "proseylite mission scheme" is a concept that aims to proselytize religion through missionary activity worldwide. These missions are to be performed by legal individuals (typically 18-25 years old) who spend a minimum of two years of their lives converting people across assigned countries. Missions can be financed by both missionaries themselves or sometimes partially by their church.

    Cebu Inter-school Debating Association Novice Cup 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-03-22

  • That progressive social movements (e.g. feminist or LGBTQ+ movements) in developing countries should strongly distance themselves from the West (Such as by not accepting funding, not exchanging information, or heavily emphasising their cultural domestic culture and connections).

    Advanced Open 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-03-03