{"id":1739,"date":"2016-05-30T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T09:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/v2.schoolsdebate.com\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2016-05-30T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T10:06:56","slug":"motions-wsdc-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.schoolsdebate.com\/motions-wsdc-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Motions for WSDC 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear global debating community<\/p>\n<p>We are happy to announce this year&#8217;s WSDC motions. We thank all involved, who have devoted very much time and effort into creating these four prepared and one Grand Final motion.<\/p>\n<p>The following motions are not yet in any particular order, so no rounds have been assigned to them yet. This will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<h2>Here they are:<\/h2>\n<p>Preliminary rounds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This House would require democratic states to hold a national referendum to ratify any free trade agreements<\/li>\n<li>This House believes that the Obama Administration\u2019s foreign policy has done more harm than good<\/li>\n<li>This House believes that technology companies with significant market shares should not be eligible for patent protection<\/li>\n<li>This House believes that, after meeting their basic needs, individuals have a moral responsibility to donate their wealth towards poverty alleviation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Grand Final motion:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This House believes that states should be allowed to pay other states to relocate and settle refugees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We thank the motions committee for their great work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aisha Ahmad, Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Anna England Kerr, England<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Swain, Australia<\/li>\n<li>Georgie Barker, Scotland<\/li>\n<li>Kaspar Kelder, Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Paidamwoyo Mangondo, South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Udayan Mukherjee, New Zealand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsdcgermany2016.com\/about\/motions\/\">WSDC 2016 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary and Grand Final motions for WSDC 2016 in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[54,61],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.5 - 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