[caption id="attachment_32634" align="alignright" width="400"] The "Croatian Dudes" Tin (left) and Lovro - © Angelos Emmanouilidis[/caption] Lovro Šprem and Tin Puljić from Zagreb won the FINDA-IDEA Mini 2017, speaking in Closing Government to the motion “This House would prefer a world in which people cannot deliberately lie”. As team Some Croatian Dudes they beat 1386 ftw (Daniel Azaz, Diogo Videira) in Opening Government, The Pollyana Principle (Anna Vilen, Johannes Majamäki) in Opening Opposition and The Middle Kids (Milla Huuskonen, Adnan Abdi) in Closing Opposition.                                                         ...

Is there debate beyondcompetition? The World Debate Forum believes there is. There is debate in education, advocacy, nation building; on the internet, TV, Radio; in a hundred languages among a million people. On the 5th and 6th of January in Berlin, we are creating a space for those of you who agree or want to find out, to share your perspectives and ideas. We hope it'll be the TED talks of the debate world, but that will only happen if there are interesting people with interesting topics. Is there a better way to allocate judges to debates? Does debate increase tolerance? Has ...

Die Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP) und die International Debate Education Association (IDEA) laden zum 14. "FLTRP"-Cup nach Peking ein. Der "FLTRP"-Cup wird vom 15. bis 22. Mai stattfinden. Für das chinesische Debattieren ist es eine aufregende Zeit, wie die Anzahl an Turnieren in letzter Zeit beweist. Zum ersten Mal wird der Cup im British Parliamentary Style (BPS) ausgetragen. Der "FLTRP"-Cup ist eines der ältesten, größten und im asiatischen Raum bekanntesten Debattierturniere und möchte durch die Etablierung von BPS die Bande zwischen China und der Debattierwelt weiter stärken. Um den Übergang zu BPS zu erleichtern, bieten die Organisatoren den ...