Motions

Schools Finals

  • The motions for this round have not been released.
  • Schools Pre-Finals

  • 1
    This house, as the journalist from the prominent media news outlet, would not omit the information in the news report and coverage
  • 2
    This house opposes the rise of de-influencing
  • 3
    This house prefers a world where mainstream news media in backsliding democracies prioritize stories of successful civic mobilization over exposés on institutional corruption.
  • Grand Final

  • The motions for this round have not been released.
  • Open Semifinals

  • The motions for this round have not been released.
  • Open Quarterfinals

  • 1
    In countries with highly competitive industries, This house opposes the reliance on bankruptcy protection as a mechanism to protect major failing businesses
  • 2
    This House would ban short selling during periods of market volatility
  • 3
    In countries with emerging financial markets, THW impose strict regulation on arbitrage trading.
  • Open Octofinals

  • 1
    This house, as the journalist from the prominent media news outlet, would not omit the information in the news report and coverage
  • 2
    This house opposes the rise of de-influencing
  • 3
    This house prefers a world where mainstream news media in backsliding democracies prioritize stories of successful civic mobilization over exposés on institutional corruption.
  • Round 5

  • 1
    This House Supports privately funded solar geoengineering experiments
  • 2
    This house believes that the evnvironmental movement should adopt anthropocentrism over ecocentrism in its advocacy
  • 3
    This house would place significant environmental zones under autonomous international ecological protection authority with powers to override local urban development decisions
  • Round 4

  • 1
    This house supports the Ciceronian Philosophy of love
  • 2
    This house Prefers a conception of love as grounded in non-sovereignty over one grounded in autonomy
  • 3
    This house believes that the romanticisation of 'voetstoots' relationships has done more harm than good.
  • Round 3

  • 1
    This House Prefers a European Union in which supranational institutions possess the authority to directly intervene in the domestic constitutional order of member states deemed to have undergone democratic backsliding.
  • 2
    This house believes that in post-conflict societies, the national government should actively attempt to recruit militias and insurgency groups into the national military over attempting to quash them.
  • 3
    This house opposes the stigmatisation of youth who are apolitical.
  • Round 2

  • 1
    This House Would ban state-owned entities and sovereign wealth funds from owning controlling stakes in professional football clubs.
  • 2
    This House Would place national elite sports funding bodies under independent athlete-led oversight authorities with binding control over expenditure decisions.
  • 3
    This House, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), would fully integrate the Paralympic games into the Olympic Games, abolishing separate Olympic and Paralympic competitions.
  • Round 1

  • 1
    This House Regrets the "Art is Dead" narrative.
  • 2
    This House Supports the Use of Art as a Tool for Nation-Building in European Nation States.
  • 3
    This House Opposes the popularization of art reengineering using Artificial Intelligence.