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BELGRADE -- Republic of Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik and LDP party leader Čedomir Jovanović took part in a televised debate in Belgrade on Wednesday.
Their debate came after a controversy caused last week by Jovanović, when he addressed a party gathering to assert that the Serb entity in Bosnia was "created on genocide".
”The RS was created in 1992, three years before Srebrenica,” Dodik pointed out today, dismissing the accusation.
Dodik added that he "did not come to fight with the LDP leader but to explain it to him that his claims that the RS was created on genocide had insulted the people in the RS".
Jovanović remarked that Tanjug news agency headquarters in downtown Belgrade, from which the program was broadcast, was "secured…
Sciences Po IV is back and MUCH BIGGER and BETTER!
Sciences Po Paris (Le Havre Campus) presents the Fourth Sciences Po IV, promising you two days of great debates and great fun AND a BRILLIANT CA team!
CA Team: Jack Watson Isabelle Fischer Niall Sherry Anne Valkering
About the IV: • 7 minute speeches • 5 preliminary rounds • Separate ESL breaks to semis • Open breaks to semis • All meals provided • Wine and Cheese! • Two socials • Yakka!
Registration: The registration fee is 25 euros/person (two teams per university ONLY) Cap - 48 teams, so secure your spot NOW before they are filled! Adjudicator: n-1 rule applies. Fees does not apply. Crash is guaranteed for…
This week I am teaching my Worlds debate class, and the group I have is pretty impressive. All quite sharp, all very interested, and all excited to learn the art of debate. I started as I usually do by showing the WUDC Koc Worlds Final round - a round that many still praise as one of the best, if not the best WUDC final of all time. After we watched about half of it, the students were ready to ask questions or make comments.
"Why do they bounce around so weird when they talk?"
"Why do they go so fast? I can't remember anything they said."
"Why don't they just choose the most important point and stick with it?"
Russian scientist claims 1982 pictures shows 'life on Venus'
Leonid Ksanfomaliti, an eminent Russian scientist, has claimed to have discovered life in Venus in grainy photographs taken by a Soviet probe three decades ago.
7:00AM GMT 24 Jan 2012
Prof Ksanfomaliti, from the Moscow-based Space Research Institute, analysed photographs taken by a Soviet probe that landed on the planet's surface.
The 79 year-old claimed the pictures, taken by the probe Venus-13 in 1982, show a giant scorpion-styled insect that he claimed proved to life on the scorching second-closest planet to the sun.
But the views of the member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, published in Solar System Research, have been cast into doubt.
Experts say the features described as a disc and a scorpion appear to change locations from one photo to the next.
Recently BBC America and the global Doctor Who Facebook page asked fans to submit their favorite quotes from Doctor Who, seasons past, to contribute to a roundup of New Year wisdom, advice – words to live by, if you will – from the Doctor and his companions in 2012 and beyond.
As you can imagine, the response was swift and overwhelming, so here, in condensed form, is what we’re going to have to call The Tao of Who:
We’ll get started with one of our favorites: “A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it…
Always looking for or at ways to stretch the rather 2 dimensional debate club model of practicing, going to tournaments, and practicing some more. One of my goals is to push the envelope of the "skills and drills" defense of having a debate club. There has to be more to it than improving your chances of winning tournaments.
Without any suggestion from me, tonight we had our first lecture/teaching session at our general meeting conducted by students for other students. I think it went pretty well.
The only question I have on my mind at the moment is the same one I ask in the video: How does this connect to tournament debating? Is the connection apparent, does it matter, and if not, why and how could such a connection be made?
The Fourth Thinking and Speaking a Better World - International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and Critical Pedagogy is very close to a comprehensive set of announcements in September.
Keep these dates open. 20-22 October 2012.
In September we will be releasing the location, details, keynote speakers, sponsors, committees and other events attached to the conference. We think you will be pleased by the new and more international focus of the 2012 event.
Bojana Skrt, ZIP, Slovenia
Alfred Snider, World Debate Institute, University of Vermont David Williams, Florida Atlantic University
We have consolidated all WDI information as well as the blog at a new website. Check there for the latest information about our programs around the world.
The East Debate Institute is a FREE WUDC debate training workshop that will be held at the University of Vermont 21-26 August 2011. Attendees must arrange their own housing and meals, but there is a nearby youth hostel.
G. Rhydian Morgan, Stylus Communications, UK: CA at numerous international tournaments, lifetime member of the Oxford Union, has taught at workshops in North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and more.
These faculty members join existing staff:
Dr. Jan Hovden, Bates College, USA: coached team to semis at US Universities, coaches successful APDA team, coached USA policy national champions.
with video lectures from Kranjska Gora and a lot of content and debate training material. Please, feel free to use it and circulate it in your debate circuits. We would also appreciate a lot if you can publisice the link to this debate training web to your ownweb page. Thanks a lot.
The second info is about IDAS 2011 - it will happen in Hotel Špik again and tournament in Ljubljana, from 19th - 28th of November. You can participate in the whole event…
Thank you for being a vibrant part of our past conferences, THINKING AND SPEAKING A BETTER WORLD. We hope to have an exciting announcement about the next conference soon.
As the school year winds down I have a bit more time, and during May I intend to spend a lot of time reviewing and editing manuscripts submitted for publication in the volume made possible by the generous support of QatarDebate and the Qatar Foundation. I am excited to be working with David Cratis Williams and Bojana Skrt on this effort.
I want to give a special thanks to those who have already sent me the manuscripts of their presentations.
Please send any and all manuscripts you would like to offer for publication in this volume to me at alfred.snider@uvm.edu . If…
Nick Clegg makes a brilliant defence of the budget in the Independent. He argues from an old progressive standpoint - those people who would traditionally have considered Labour or Liberal Democrat but never Conservative.
He says it is better to cut the income taxes of the poorest than take their money in tax and give it back to them in tax credits; that it is good to ensure capital gains are taxed at least the same rate as the income of the poorest; that it is right to put up pensions.
But he also makes two surprising claims, trying to win old progressives over to new territory:
"Decisions on benefits have been controversial, but I believe they meet the same test of fairness. It is not fair, progressive or liberal to make people better off living on handouts than they would be earning a living."
At long last, we're happy to announce the publication of new resources for tournament direction and hosting as part of a site-wide update of materials this school year. Many teachers, as part of the Middle School Public Debate Program, decide...
I know we tend to forget what we learned over the summer. So, a brief review. An argument has three parts: Assertion, Reasoning, and Evidence. We abbreviate these as A-R-E. Now, as someone who is interested in debate, I have...
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