IDEA will launch the new and improved Debatabase in 2012, which operates as the world’s largest virtual case file containing arguments for and against thousands of motions.
The rebuilt Debatabase features articles written by some of the world’s best debaters, supported and supervised by a specially selected group of academic curators. Apart from using it as a starting point in matter preparation for the IDEA Youth Forum, you can also contribute to the Debatabase by improving the arguments or writing new debates for the community. You can preview the Debatabase by browsing the following motions related to Securing Liberty:
Prepared Motions
“State-sanctioned torture is justifiable in exceptional circumstances.”
“Guantanamo Bay prison should be closed down immediately.”
“Ethnic profiling to fight crime is justified”
Debates on Securing Liberty
- This House would use racial profiling as part of airport security checks
- This House would use torture to obtain information from suspected terrorists
- This House would assassinate dictators
- This House would close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre
- This House would detain terror suspects without trial
- This House believes that the ancient right of Habeas Corpus should be limited or suspended as part of efforts to combat terrorism
- This House would ban government employees from joining extremist political parties
- This House believes that NATO countries and the government of Afghanistan should negotiate a power-sharing deal with the Taliban
- This House believes that terrorism can be justified
- This House would allow Wire-Tapped and ‘Intercepted’ Evidence as Admissible in Court
- This House would abandon the timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan
- This House believes that invasion is an appropriate and effective response to terrorist attacks.
- This House believes in Just War
- This House believes the practice of extraordinary rendition a useful and necessary policy in the fight against terrorism
- This House believes that governments should pay compensation for terrorist atrocities committed by their citizens
