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The Global Debate and Public Policy Challenge is a new annual competition designed to engage undergraduates in ongoing debates and reflection on critical issues affecting their lives and the global community.

5 winners will receive USD 10,000 each for scholarship towards Graduate study or as stipend to work one year in non-profit institution in a field related to Public Policy. 50 finalists will win trips to Budapest, Hungary to attend the first annual Global Debate & Public Policy Forum in June, 2012.

Register at http://gdppc.org

Motion: All states should immediately ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFzTd96zvAc

Watch the Final Round of Securing Liberty Debate. Motion: Ethnic profiling is a just means of combating terrorism.

Join us on Facebook and Debate the Issues of Terrorism and Democratic Values in the Post 9/11 United States.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Securing-Liberty/192816274104372

THE SECURING LIBERTY PUBLIC FORUM ROUND ROBIN

June 25, 2011

Stuyvesant High School

New York, NY

Sponsored by the Open Society Foundations, organized by the International Debate Education Association in partnership with The National Forensic League, The International Debate Education Association, Stuyvesant High School and the Princeton American Whig-Cliosophic.

The upcoming tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks should offer a time to reflect on whether the United State’s response to these terrorist attacks weakened its commitment to the nation's core values enshrined within the Constitution. In the name of national security, have the rights and liberties of U.S. citizens and the citizens of other nations been unjustly compromised?

To foster an informed debate on these issues in high schools throughout the United Sates, the Open Society Foundations is sponsoring the Securing Liberty Round Robin. Held at Stuyvesant High School, the high school closest to Ground Zero, the tournament will engage with these issues in a location where they have particular resonance.

The rounds will be streamed live on the Internet and all rounds will be recorded. Representative debates will be archived and made available to students and teachers around the country as an educational tool.

The Round Robin will accompany the launch of the International Debate Education Association's (IDEA) newest book: Securing Liberties: Debating Issues of Terrorism and Democratic Values in the Post-9/11 United States. With the support of the Open Society Foundations, IDEA is freely offering copies of this book to all high schools in the United States and preparing a curriculum that will be used to teach this subject in schools. Over 900 high schools have already requested copies of the book.

For more information on the Round Robin or to apply to attend go to www.idebate.org/securingliberty or email Ceckholm@princeton.edu

If you want to take part in the third WODC you better get your skates on. Registration closes at the end of May which means you’ve got ten short days to tell us you want to take part in the world’s toughest and best online debating tournament.

If you do join us you could be debating against teams from Malaysia, Wales, Australia, Mexico, Uzbekistan, Greece, Mongolia, Nigeria, India and the USA.

And if you win you’ll be given a fantastic trophy to keep for life and the honour of calling yourselves a World Champion, something you’ll bore your grandchildren about.

To find out more please visit www.debatewise.org/wodc or email me back with any questions you have.

Entry costs $20 per person or $100 per team regardless how many members. Send your registration fee to wodc@debatewise.org using Paypal - or get in touch with us for alternatives. Bursaries are available.

The tournament starts in July and ends in September for the winners.

Don’t delay, registration will close very soon.

Here you can directly access the streaming rooms for the tournament UADC 2011: http://www.idebate.org/streaming/uadc2011. All rooms shall be broadcast at the same time, and the participants and debates shall be published beforehand on the Twitter account.

Please scroll to the lower part of the page for the live Twitter feed and the live Flickr stream.

We are proud to announce that registration is open for the 3rd World Online Debating Championships. Thirty two teams from all over the world will compete in a knockout tournament, debating anything from pre-nuptial agreements, through European tax law, all the way to denying heavy drinkers liver transplants.

Last year (in front of an all-star judging pool) the Czech Republic beat New Zealand in the final. Could your team beat the reigning world champions? Can you impress this year’s top adjudicators? You can team up with anyone: people from the Internet; your school, university or local community; or, for the hard-core, you can compete by yourself.

This year we’ve upgraded our system, tweaked the rules and improved the prizes. We’re expecting all 32 places to be filled by exceptional teams and you could be one of them, with a chance to win the coveted WODC 2011 trophy!

The tournament starts in July and the winners can expect to be involved every two weeks from then until the end of September. This makes it a very tough competition and whoever ends up victorious can take great pride in their achievement.

Entry is $20 per person and capped at $100 per team, though bursaries are available to all deserving applicants.

More information can be found on our site, you can register there too: http://debatewise.org/wodc

We are really looking forward to what will be an exceptional tournament and we hope you can join us.

Answer the question here:

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Has WikiLeaks expanded our view of how news should be shared, or ushered in a new age of dangerous muckraking? Do governments have a right to keep secrets, or is radical transparency the only way to ensure accountability?

Come join our panel on Wednesday May 4th at 6:30pm at the Colombian Journalism School Lecture Hall, 116th Street and Broadway NYC. (http://www.idebate.org/news/article.php?id=554)

On the panel:

MARK STEPHENS
Julian Assange’s Attorney

ANDREI SOLDATOV
Investigative Journalist & Security Services Expert

EMILY BELL
Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism

RICHARD COHEN
Columnist, Washington Post

JOHN KAMPFNER
Chief Executive, Index on Censorship
Event Chairman

Wednesday, May 4
6:30 p.m.
Lecture Hall, 3rd floor
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
116th & Broadway
New York City

This event is free to attend, but space is limited. To secure your place, register here.
http://fs12.formsite.com/jschoolacademics/form16/index.html