The spring campaign for the TPS Global Debates starts March 1 and lasts until March 24th. Register your school to participate and win a trip to New York City July of 2008! Register at www.thepeoplespeak.org!
The IDEA International Tournament of Champions for High School Parliamentary Debate Tournament will take place May 15 – 17, 2008, at Willamette University.
IDEA is once again partnering with the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press to lead an American Parliamentary Debate training May 19th-20th at the FLTRP facilities. The training is part of the FLTRP Cup, to be held in Beijing May 18th-25th.
The UN Foundation, IDEA, and the National Forensic League present the UN Youth Leadership Summit, to be held this July 17th-19th in New York City. You can find information about this exciting event at www.thepeoplespeak.org.
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Unity in Diversity Exchange has started in Amsterdam. Over 30 participants from the Netherlands, Romania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Lithuania are taking part in the training on Legislative Debate, as well as other exciting debate events.
The training at the Unity in Diversity Exchange is conducted by Veronika Vlckova, IDEA Forum Coordinator, and Marcin Zaleski, IDEA Director of Training and Curriculum.
You can find more information about the event at www.euyouthspeak.org
IDEA is recruiting for a new debate trainer position in South Korea with the Korea Poly School (KPS). KPS is seeking Canadian or US citizens to teach debate to elementary and/or middle school students for at least one academic year at one of their four campuses (Daejeon, Ilsan, Mokdong, or Bundang). Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree and be willing to work in Korea for one academic year.
IDEA is accepting applications for the position of Program Coordinator in Seoul, South Korea. For more details about this position, please click below.
Results of the Korea Qualifier Tournament have been posted on the IDEA blog! Visit the blog to see which Korean high school debaters will be attending the NFL National Tournament in Las Vegas this summer. Thanks again to all judges and participants--and to Indianhead International School for hosting the event.
The BP Round Robin sponsored by IDEA and Hobart and William Smith Colleges April 4th-5th was an exciting event that invited 16 schools to be a part of top-notch competition. To see results, please visit the IDEA blog!
In addition to being on Facebook, IDEA is also on MySpace! Our new MySpace profile is myspace.com/ideadebater. Will you be our friend? We only have six right now, which makes us really lame.
See the new magazine for Spanish speaking youth, now available online. Idebate.ñ is a publication of IDEA and the Open Society Institute Youth Initiatives.
Sharia law, should be granted legal recognition Should states with significant Muslim minorities grant some recognition for Sharia law to govern aspects of their affairs within their legal systems. Added: 04 May 2008
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Health Care, Universal Should the United States introduce a universal health care system? Added: 10 Apr 2008
Droit de suite (resale royalty) Should visual artists be entitled to a royalty every time a work is re-sold? Added: 21 Feb 2008
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Congressional redistricting in the USA Should electoral districts for the US House of Representatives be drawn by an independent authority or by state legislatures? Added: 21 Feb 2008
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