Dutch WUDC 2017
Round 1
Motion: This House believes that post-genocidal regimes should destroy all places of extermination (for example, death camps)
Round 2
Motion: This House would allow members of the armed forces to form labour unions.
Round 3
Motion: This House believes that sports leagues should significantly tax and redistribute from wealthier teams to poorer teams.
Round 4
Motion: In areas with rapidly rising property prices, This House would suspend all restrictions on property development that are not health and safety requirements (for example, environmental zoning regulations, building height restrictions, and regulations on the appearance of buildings).
Round 5
Info Slide: The Netherlands has a political system with many political parties in which no one party typically gets a majority of the votes. Seats in the parliament are allocated in proportion to the number of votes received by each party on a national level (『promotional representation』). The government is formed by the coalition of parties that has a majority in the parliament.
Motion: This House believes that the Netherlands should allow citizens to purchase additional votes from the government at a cost proportional to their wealth (for example, one additional vote for 1% of wealth).
Round 6
Motion: This House believes that the world would be a better place if women from privileged backgrounds turned down any benefits arising from affirmative action programs.
Round 7
Info Slide: South Korea has raw materials and equipment to produce nuclear weapons but has not produced any.
Motion: This House believes that South Korea should produce nuclear weapons.
Round 8
Motion: This House regrets the glamorization of start-up culture that encourages people to start their own companies rather than pursue traditional career paths.
Round 9
Motion: This House would temporarily and significantly relax minimum labour standards in times of usually high unemployment, including workplace health and safety standards, minimum wage, working hours restrictions etc.
EFL Semis
Motion: This House believes that the primary language of instruction for school education in developing countries should be English.
EFL Final
Motion: This House believes that the European left should promote a hard left agenda, including the nationalisation of major industry, very high tax rates on wealthy, and expansion of the welfare states.
ESL Quarters
Motion: This House believes that the U.S. should provide significant campaign funding for federal and state congressmen and senators who score highly in bipartisan metrics*
*Scores derived from instances of voting with the other party, co-sponsoring bills, etc., calculated by independent bodies
ESL Semis
Info Slide 1:「I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife," -1 Corinthians 7:32-33
Info Slide 2:Clerical celibacy is the requirement in certain religions that some or all members of the clergy be unmarried. These religions consider that, outside of marriage, deliberate sexual thoughts, feelings, and behaviour are sinful; clerical celibacy also requires abstention from these.
Motion: This House, as the Pope, would abolish the requirement for clerical celibacy.
ESL Final
Motion: This House would force all news organisations to operate as a non-profit.
Open Partial Double Octos
Motion: This House believes that countries close to conflict zones should only grant long-term asylum to refugees who agree to one year of military service.
Open Octos
Motion: This House would ban advocacy for religious belief in public places.
Open Quarters
Motion: THBT all governments should designate and publicly announce a list of financial institutions that they would bail out in the event of a crisis.
Open Semis
Motion: TH, as the Chinese Communist Party, will allow fair and competitive elections for local elections (ie mayors).
Open Final
Motion: This House would apply Universal jurisdiction on crimes against environment.
Thessaloniki WUDC 2016
Round 1
Info Slide: Mercenaries are soldiers for hire outside of national armed forces. They can be hired either as individuals contracted by a state or through companies offering these services to a state.
Motion:This House Would allow states to use mercenary forces in combat roles in active military operations.
Round 2
Motion:This House Would prohibit private ownership of art deemed to be culturally or historically significant.
Round 3
Motion: This House Believes That all states should collectively aggregate and evenly distribute all revenue from mineral wealth globally on a per capita basis.
Round 4
Motion: This House Believes That governments with racially diverse populations should never record the ethnic or racial background of their residents.
Round 5
Motion:This House Believes That the US should withdraw from East Asia and cede regional hegemony to China.
Round 6
Info Slide: A sunset clause is a legal measure that provides that the law in which it is contained shall expire after a specific date, unless further action is taken to extend it.
Motion: This House Believes That states should adopt sunset clauses that legally force them to review and either re-authorize or revise their constitutions every generation.
Round 7
Motion: This House Supports stronger collective bargaining rights and protections rather than legislated labor market regulations (e.g. wage levels and working conditions).
Round 8
Motion: This House Believes That the creation of feminist icons and their cults of personality are good for the feminist movement.
Round 9
Info Slide: Culpability is a measure of the degree to which a person can be held morally responsible for an offense.
Motion: This House Believes That criminal punishments should be based only on the offenders』 culpability rather than the damages caused by the criminal act or other outcomes derived from the punishment.
EFL Semi-Final
Motion: This House Would retrospectively criminalize excessively risky management practices for economically significant corporations and prosecute the executives responsible for them.
EFL Grand-Final
Motion: This House Believes That campaigners for refugee protection should not use pictures displaying the graphic suffering or refugees as part of their advocacy.
ESL Quarter-Final
Info Slide: The Giving Pledge is a campaign founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage the extremely wealthy to donate the majority of their wealth to charity. In addition to its founders, the Pledge has been signed by prominent individuals including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and Paul Singer.
Motion:This House Would prefer a world in which extremely wealthy people in Western liberal states donate excess money to their governments rather than to charities.
ESL Semi-Final
Motion: This House Believes That the West should prioritize stability over exporting democracy in foreign policy.
ESL Grand-Final
Motion: This House Supports the decline of the nation-state’s power in an increasingly globalized world.
Open Partial-Double-Octo-Final
Motion: This House Regrets mainstream, commercial films that depict historical subjugation and/or crimes against humanity.
Open Octo-Final
Motion: This House Would nationalize all systemically important financial institutions, such as banks and insurance companies.
Open Quarter-Final
Motion: This House Supports the establishment of a Black secessionary state within the territory of the United States, the founding of which is supported by the American government.
Open Semi-Final
Motion: This House Believes That non-Western countries who were once colonized, when fabricating the material culture of national identity (anthems, street names, holidays, flags, etc.) should privilege pre-colonial history and notions of indigeneity over themes of anti-colonial resistance.
Open Grand-Final
Motion: This House Believes That the world’s poor would be justified in pursuing complete Marxist revolution.
Malaysia WUDC 2015
Round 1:
This House regrets the decline of tightly integrated families.
Round 2:
Info slide: Climate engineering is a deliberate and large-scale intervention in earth’s climatic system in an effort to combat Global Warming. Climate engineering may take many forms; Examples include, but are not limited to, planting large forests where none previously existed, fertilizing the ocean with iron to dramatically increase the population of algae, and increasing cloud coverage so less sunlight reaches earth’s suface.
Motion: This house believes that environmental movements should support climate engineering that fundamentally alters the environment, in an attempt to combat Global Warming.
Round 3:
This House believes that in areas of socio-economic deprivation, schools should train students in vocational skills to the exclusion of the Liberal Arts.
Round 4:
This House would prohibit the media from reporting on the mental illness of those accused of crimes.
Round 5:
This House belives that the international community should cut off internet access in Syria.
Round 6:
This House belives that developing countries should adopt economic development policies that heavily disincentivise urbanisation.
Round 7:
Info slide: Over the last decade, scientists have identified a range of chemicals that exist naturally in the brain and shape individuals』 moral behaviour. Significant amounts of research is now being carried out to create 「moral enhancement drugs」, which would alter the levels of such chemicals. Such drugs have been shown to increase individuals』 tendencies to display empathy and care for others, to behave in altruistic way, and to resist pressures to act in ways that violate their personal ethical beliefs.
Motion: This House would ban the research and production of moral enhancement drugs.
Round 8:
This House believes that the United States and the European Union should seek to promote peace by heavily subsidising Israeli businesses who invest in the Palestinian territories.
Round 9:
This House, as a medical professional employed by the United States military or security services, would, and would encourage others, to refuse orders to provide medical treatment to individuals undergoing 「Enhanced Interrogation Techniques」.
Open partial double octofinals:
This house would allow corporations to use hackers to retaliate against cyberattacks where the state seems unwilling or unable to do so.
Open Octofinals:
This house believes that disadvantaged groups should emphasise their conformity with, rather than distictiveness from dominant culture; as a strategy for improving their social position.
Open Quarterfinals:
This house regrets the decline of secular pan-Arab nationalism.
Open Semifinals:
This house believes that all states should create special economic zones in cities, where all economic activities (except the purchase of goods and services) are carried out by women.
Open Finals:
This house believes that humanitarian organisations should and should be allowed to give funding, resources or services ti illegal armed groups when this is made a condition for access to vulnerable civilians.
ESL Finals:
This house believes that liberal democracies that overthrow the governments of other states should impose power sharing even when this overrides or delays democratic representation.
ESL Semifinals:
This house would severely limit companies ability to replace workers with technology
ESL Quarterfilans:
Info Slide: The broken windows theory describes the concept that substantial amounts of petty crime create that increase major crime. Many jurisdictions, including most famously New York State, have introduced policing policies in response; and respond to areas of high crime with substantial increase in police presence, arrest and prosecution rates for petty crime and harsher punishments.
Motion: This house believes that the African-American community should oppose "broken windows policies"
EFL Semifinals:
This house would ban its citizens from visiting iliberal states whose economies depend on tourism.
Chennai WUDC 2014
Round 1:
This house believes that the United States of America should fund moderate Madrassas (schools of Islamic study) throughout the Islamic world.
Round 2:
This house would allow first-time offenders to, with the consent of the victims, pay compensation to them in place of a prison sentence.
Round 3:
This house regrets the rise of a 'hookup culture' (one which accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters focused on physical pleasure, without necessarily including emotional bonding).
Round 4:
This house believes that developing countries should ban members of political dynasties from standing for elected office.
Round 5:
Info slide:
- A number of countries are currently negotiating to establish the world's largest free trade area by comprehensively liberalising trade in the Asia-Pacific region.
- This proposed agreement, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), would include the following countries: United States, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Mexico, Chile, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zeland, Peru and Brunei.
- China is NOT included in these negotiations.
This house believes that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is in the interests of the small and medium-sized negotiating countries.
Round 6:
This house would make the receipt of welfare payments to raise children conditional on the use of long-term, but reversible, contraception.
Round 7:
This house believes that government agencies that regulate drugs should only test whether a drug is safe, not whether it is effective, before approving it for public use. Info slide: Generally, government agencies, responsible for regulating drugs (for example the Food and Drug Administration, or the European Medicines Agency) require that a new drug pass two different tests before being approved for public use. These seperate tests asses whether a drug is:
- First, "safe", does the drug pose an unacceptable health risk?
- Second, "effective", does the drug do what it claims to do?
Round 8:
This house believes that NATO should unconditionally offer membership to the states of the former Soviet Union, excluding Russia.
Round 9:
This house regrets the commodification of indigenous cultures.
EFL Semi-Finals
This house believes that the gay rights movement should abandon the claim that sexuality is not a choice.
EFL Final
This house believes that multinational companies should be liable for human rights abuses that occur anywhere in their supply chain.
ESL Quarter-Finals
This house would remove all copyright protection for material deemed to be morally objectionable.
ESL Semi-Finals
This house believes that Pope Francis should publicly encourage Catholics to support radically redistributive government policies.
ESL Grand Final
This house would allow countries to pay other countries to settle asylum-seekers who reach their borders.
Open Partial Double Octo-Finals
This house would abolish gated communities in the developing world.
Open Octo-Finals
This house believes that Japan should shame its soldiers who participated in WWII, including those who did not commit war crimes themselves.
Open Quarter-Finals
This house would auction off the long-term right to govern bankrupt cities for profit.
Open Semi-Finals
This house believes that women should reject practices that alter the appearance of their genitalia, such as waxing and labiaplasty.
Open Grand Final:
This house believes that India should adoptaggressive free market policies.
Masters' Round 1
This house believes that the feminist movement should actively fight to liberate men from their prescribed gender roles.
Masters' Round 2
This house would redraw the borders of Africa.
Masters' Grand Final:
This House would never categorize people on their race.
Berlin WUDC 2013
Round 1:
THW create public housing for the poor in wealthy areas
Round 2:
THBT Japan should acquire nuclear weapons
Round 3:
THW only imprison individuals who pose a direct and continuing threat to society
Round 4:
THBT International development institutions (such as the World Bank) should not finance natural resource extraction projects in corrupt states
Round 5:
THBT self described progressive males of dominant ethnicities are morally obliged to refrain from taking positions of responsibility where there is a qualified alternative candidate from a historically disadvantaged group who would otherwise receive the post
Round 6:
THW legally permit soldiers to refuse to participate in military actions or missions on the basis of conscience
Round 7:
THBT European Union nations should forgive Greece’s sovereign debt
Round 8:
THBT countries with booming populations should allocate every adult a single tradable permit to have a child
Round 9:
THW ban political parties and require all candidates for national public office to seek election as indepen
ESL:
Quarter Finals:
THBT publicly funded universities should be required to reduce enrolment in degree programs within their university that have statistically poor employment outcomes
Semi Finals:
THBT the feminist movement should actively promote norms of stable monogamous relationships
Grand Final:
THBT representative democracies with large numbers of foreigners living in their territory (on temporary or permanent basis) should create specific seats to represent them in parliament.
Partial Double Octo Finals:
THBT universities should never prohibit research or teaching on the grounds of sexist, racist or otherwise discriminatory implications
OPEN:
Octo Finals:
THBT the US should cut off military aid to Egypt
Quarter Finals:
THW ban all advertising of consumer goods and services
Semi Finals:
TBHT the WTO should never allow nations to place export restrictions on food, rare-earth metals, and other non-oil commodities
Grand Final:
THW not allow religious communities to expel members on the basis of views or actions that contradict doctrinal teachings
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