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Debate Impact Presentation
On the 17th of December, the dissemination seminar took...
10 Jan 2017
Debate education in Lithuania evaluated
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10 Jan 2017
World Debate Forum closes WUDC, begins a new debate year
The World Universities Debating Championships took place in...
9 Jan 2017
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IDEA NL invites all participants to Dutch WUDC 2017to...
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Dutch WUDC preliminary rounds motions
World University Debating Championships 2017 is hosted in...
1 Jan 2017
IMSU Debating Union speakers are Pan African Finalists!
In what was a remarkable show of debating excellence and...
5 Sep 2016
IMSU’S Osuji Chukwuebuka is joint best speaker in 2016 All Nigerian Universities Debating Championships
Imo State University (IMSU) student Osuji Chukwuebuka has...
5 Sep 2016
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Debate at Europe

Debate @Europe

Debate@Europe is an educational project for young people in six countries across Europe.

It fosters dialogue and mutual understanding through online and offline debates on European issues.

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IDEA Youth Forum

Youth Forum

The IDEA Youth Forum is IDEA's flagship event joining together hundreds of students and educators. This year, IDEA and its partners will host 250 young people from over 40 countries the 18th Forum.

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Free Speech Debate

Freespeechdebate.idebate.org is in partnership with Free Speech Debate a multilingual website based at the University of Oxford for the discussion of freedom of expression in the age of the internet and mass migration.

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Debate decide 2012

2012 Presidential Debates Guide

Learn the basics of the American electoral process and the issues that President Obama and Governor Romney will debate.

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Big Apple Cogers

The Society of Cogers, founded in the City of London in 1755, can claim to be the oldest “free speech” forum in the world, and is quite possibly the world's oldest debating society.

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Youth in the 21st Century: Debating and producing media

This project brings youth together to learn and debate the important issues of their region and produce media projects about the relationship between media and society.

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DiN

Debate in the Neighborhood (DiN) takes debate and its benefits out of these traditional settings and transplants it right into the heart of diverse and urban communities.

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Securing Liberty

Securing Liberty challenges high school students in the US and from around the world to reflect on questions concerning the relationships between Security and Liberty.

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