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11/21/13
JanFeb- Blame Game AC v11
Tournament: NDCA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Akhil Jalan | Judge: Oliver Gappmeyer Plan Text: Developing countries should implement the UN Watercourses Convention. Inherency: UNWC doesn’t yet have enough countries that have become parties to the convention. SALMAN 07 Salman M. A. Salman, lead counsel with the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank in Washington DC and the Bank adviser on water law. Dr. Salmna has published extensively in the area of national and international water law., “The United Nations Watercourses Convention Ten Years Later: Why Has its Entry into Force Proven Difficult?”, International Water Resources Association, http://www.salmanmasalman.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/UNWatercoursesConventionTenYearsFinal2.pdf, 2007, DDA However, despite this about the Convention.
The UNWC enforces comprehensive measures to ensure cooperation over and environmental protection of international watercourses. Solves water wars and environmental harms. WWF 09 World Wild Life Fund, With a global network covering more than 100 countries and nearly 50 years of conservation work behind us, WWF is one of the most experienced environmental organisations in the world, actively contributing to delivering freshwater projects and programmes around the world, Title of Article, W, http://www.unwater.org/downloads/wwf_un_watercourses_brochure_for_web_1.pdf, January 2009, DDA The UN Watercourses of applicable agreements (Article 33). ¶
SOLVENCY
Plan key to solving resource conflicts, economic development, and sustainability. WWF 2 The inadequacy of addressing those issues. 2. Plan facilitates transboundary cooperation through equitable benefit sharing and environmental protection. WWF 3 The United Nations of international watercourses.
ADVANTAGE 1: WATER WARS Water agreements are a driver for peace and improved infrastructure prevents terrorist attacks. DNI 12 Office of the Director of National Intelligence, United States government official (principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council about intelligence matters related to national security, Serve as head of the sixteen-member Intelligence Community; and Direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program), “Global Water Security, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Special20Report_ICA20Global20Water20Security.pdf, February 2, 2012, DDA
Water challenges have the water infrastructure.
A terrorist attack escalates to a global nuclear exchange SPEICE 06 Speice 06, JD Candidate @ College of William and Mary Patrick F. Speice, Jr., “NEGLIGENCE AND NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION: ELIMINATING THE CURRENT LIABILITY BARRIER TO BILATERAL U.S.-RUSSIAN NONPROLIFERATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS,” William and Mary Law Review, February 2006, 47 Wm and Mary L. Rev. 1427, DDA Accordingly, there of nuclear weapons Water scarcity coming now – it's a threat multiplier that enflames hotspots globally. Specifically, Egypt and Central Asia – their defense isn't predictive Dinar et al 12 (SHLOMI DINAR is associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and associate director of the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. LUCIA DE STEFANO is associate professor at Complutense University of Madrid and researcher at the Water Observatory of the Botín Foundation. JAMES DUNCAN is consultant on natural resource governance and geography with the World Bank. KERSTIN STAHL is senior scientist at the Institute of Hydrology in the University of Freiburg. KENNETH M. STRZEPEK is research scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. AARON T. WOLF is a professor of geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, Foreign Affairs, October 18, 2012, "No Wars for Water", http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138208/shlomi-dinar-lucia-de-stefano-james-duncan-kerstin-stahl-kenneth/no-wars-for-water?page=show)
In short, predictions world's volatile regions.
Those wars go global Reilly 2 (Kristie, Editor for In These Times, a nonprofit, independent, national magazine published in Chicago. We’ve been around since 1976, fighting for corporate accountability and progressive government. In other words, a better world, cites environmental thinker and activist Vandana Shiva Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke—probably North America’s foremost water experts, “NOT A DROP TO DRINK,” http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/25/culture1.shtml)
The two books permanently lost to use.
And they go nuclear WEINER, Prof. Princeton, ‘The Next 100 Years p.270, 1990 If we do stockpiled since Trinity.
ADVANTAGE 2: STATE FAILURE SALMAN 2 The Convention embraces of the whole.
Water scarcity getting worse now, will cause state failure. DNI 2 Our Bottom Line: of state failure.
Weak and failing states breed terrorism, international crime, weapons proliferation, and regional instability. WYLER 08 Liana Sun Wyler, August 28, 2008 Analyst in International Crime and Narcotics Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division. “Weak and Failing States: Evolving Security Threats and U.S. Policy” Congressional Research Service Analysts identify numerous the United States.
That risks extinction KATEB 92 George, 1992 The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture, “Thinking About Human Extinction (1): Nuclear Weapons and Individual Rights,” p. 111-112 Schell's work attempts seek expression later.
Underview 1: Extinction First under any framework
Moral uncertainty means we default to preventing extinction. Bostrom (2011) Nick Bostrom, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy These reflections on any existential catastrophe. 2. If there’s any risk of util, extinction is bad for the purposes of decision making. Bostrom 2 “There will be to decision making.” A. INTERPRETATION: The negative must accept the affirmative framework if it is fair, substantively justified in the 1AC, and disclosed on the NDCA wiki prior to the round. Accept means to take as is, so they can’t reconceptualize the framework to exclude aff offense. The standard is maximizing expected well being.
4/12/14
JanFeb- Blame Game AC v2
Tournament: Harvard | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Akhil Jalan | Judge: X Water deficiency in Pakistan is getting worse now and threatens mass instability including extremist attacks and conflict with India. Aziz Nayani, Aziz Nayani is a freelance writer and independent consultant, focusing on South Asian policy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Express Tribune and Foreign Policy's AfPak Channel. Aziz currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts., “Pakistan's New Big Threat Isn't Terrorism—It's Water” of Article, The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/pakistans-new-big-threat-isnt-terrorism-its-water/277970/, July 19, 2013, DDA NAYANI 13 In a report we see today.
Pakistan and India share control over the Indus River system, which is regulated under the Indus Waters Treaty. SARFRAZ 13 Hamid Sarfraz, IUCN Programme Director, holds Master of Philosophy degree (all Ph.D requirements fulfilled except dissertation) in Sociology from the University of Balochistan, master’s degree was also in Sociology from University of the Punjab. Has attended extensive courses on management at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. During the last 20 years, he has been contributing to sustainable development through programmes’ coordination, project management, writing and teaching. Of these, more than 13 years have been with IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature where currently he is responsible to ensure a coherent and robust programme of the Union in Pakistan as its Programme Coordinator. Before joining IUCN, he has been teaching Social Psychology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Population and Research Methodology to postgraduate students at the University of Balochistan for about seven years. he has written number of research articles, monographs, “Revisiting the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN), https://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/pk_hs_revisiting_the_1960_indus_waters_treaty__water_international_.pdf, March 8, 2013, DDA Pakistan and India in January 1961 (Wolf and Newton, 2008).
The IWT is unable to deal with modern environmental problems. Absent change, the rivers will run out. SARFRAZ 2 In particular, the all year round.
The IWT is focused on maximizing the use of water, however it does not account for the risks that climate change and other environmental risks pose. SARFRAZ 3 So, is the IWT longer periods (IPCC, 2007). Thus, the plan: India and Pakistan should accede to the UN Watercourses convention.
UNWC promotes Indo-Pak cooperation on environmental issues. SARFRAZ 4 From this analysis with mutual consent.
IWT leads to unequitable water distribution with no restriction over how each country can use its water. SARFRAZ 5 Articles II–IV of its future requirements” (Tariq, 2010, p. 9).
SOLVENCY: UNWC focuses on environmental protection and utilizes Environmental Impact Assessment for transboundary environmental issues, which are ignored by the IWT. SARFRAZ 6 An obvious shortcoming
ADVANTAGE 1 IS INDO-PAK Indo-Pak leads to nuclear war. SHARMA 12 Dr. Ashok Sharma is a Lecturer in the Political Studies Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Prior to this, he was a Visiting Academic in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at The University of Waikato, Hamilton, SAIS Review, Winter/Spring 2012, "The Enduring Conflict and the Hidden Risk of India-Pakistan War", Vol. 32, No. 1, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sais_review/v032/32.1.sharma.html The Indo-Pak cannot be denied.
ADVANTAGE 2 IS WATER WARS: Water scarcity coming now – it's a threat multiplier that enflames hotspots globally. Dinar et al 12 (SHLOMI DINAR is associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and associate director of the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. LUCIA DE STEFANO is associate professor at Complutense University of Madrid and researcher at the Water Observatory of the Botín Foundation. JAMES DUNCAN is consultant on natural resource governance and geography with the World Bank. KERSTIN STAHL is senior scientist at the Institute of Hydrology in the University of Freiburg. KENNETH M. STRZEPEK is research scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. AARON T. WOLF is a professor of geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, Foreign Affairs, October 18, 2012, "No Wars for Water", http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138208/shlomi-dinar-lucia-de-stefano-james-duncan-kerstin-stahl-kenneth/no-wars-for-water?page=show)
In short, predictions lost to use. And they go nuclear WEINER, Prof. Princeton, ‘The Next 100 Years p.270, 1990 If we do stockpiled since Trinity.
ADVANTAGE 3 IS PAKISTANI INSTABILITY: KERR 13 Paul K. Kerr (Congressional Analyst in nonproliferation) and Mary Beth Nktitin (Specialist in nonproliferation), “Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues”, Congressional Research Service, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL34248.pdf, March 19, 2012, DDA Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal Relations, by K. Alan Kronstadt.
Underview 1: ethical framework
respect for the equality of persons mandates consequentialism. CUMMISKEY Cummiskey, David. Kantian Consequentialism. Published by Oxford University Press. 1996. (p.142). If I sacrifice to save many. Underview 2: Extinction First under any framework
Moral uncertainty means we default to preventing extinction. ostrom 1 (2011) Nick Bostrom, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy These reflections on any existential catastrophe. 2. If there’s any risk of util, extinction is bad for the purposes of decision making. Bostrom 2 “There will be to decision making.”
South Asia is through military means
2/25/14
JanFeb- Lay AC
Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Regis JC | Judge: Tom Erlanger I affirm. Resolved: Developing countries should prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction when the two are in conflict.
I value proper governmental obligations because the developing countries are the actors in question.
My value criterion is maximizing expected wellbeing for three reasons:
First, respect for the equality of persons mandates consequentialism. CUMMISKEY 96 Cummiskey, David. Kantian Consequentialism. Published by Oxford University Press. 1996. (p.142). If I sacrifice to save many
Second, epistemology is constrained by the badness of pain. NAGEL 89 Thomas Nagel, University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, The View From Nowhere, Book, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwVariousNagel.htm, 1989 I shall defend the appearances here
Third, Util is the only moral system available to policy-makers. GOODIN 90 Robert Goodin, Philosophy Fellow @ The Australian National Defense University. “THE UTILITARIAN RESPONSE”, 1990, p. 141-2. AS 11/4/13 My larger argument
CONTENTION 1 is intrastate conflicts. Prioritizing environmental protection over resource extraction is key to solving conflicts. UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM in 09 United Nations Environment Programme, 2009. “From Con?ict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment” Since 1990 at as between states.
Additionally, extraction fuels conflicts over control of valuable resources THE UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM continues United Nations Environment Programme, 2009. “From Con?ict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment” Many countries currently natural resource governance.
Weak and failing states breed terrorism, international crime, weapons proliferation, and regional instability. WYLER 08 Liana Sun Wyler, August 28, 2008 Analyst in International Crime and Narcotics Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division. “Weak and Failing States: Evolving Security Threats and U.S. Policy” Congressional Research Service Analysts identify numerous the United States.26
CONTENTION 2 is global warming. The logic of the commons generates a tragedy where each individual tries to pursue their best interests at the expense of the commons. HARDIN Garrett, American ecologist, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of_the_commons.html The tragedy of brings ruin to all.
This principle also applies to global warming because the atmosphere is treated as a commons. O’GORMAN Maebh, University College Dublin, School of Law “Global Warming: A Tragedy of the Commons” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1653947 The ‘tragedy of the long term.
Prevention of resource extraction such as coal and petroleum solves for global warming. EDF 14 Environmental Defense Fund, Nonprofit in cause of trying to reduce emissions in the US, Human Activity is Causing Global Warming, EDF, 2014 Scientists have closed you are helping.¶
Global warming is an existential threat that must be prevented. TICKELL 08 Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Guardian, 8-11, “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange, DDA We need to similar hothouse Earth.
2/8/14
JanFeb- NDCA standards
Tournament: NDCA | Round: 1 | Opponent: x | Judge: x Standard Texts: maximizing expected well-being maximizing life
note- I may read other standards- these are simply 2 standards that I am reading
4/12/14
JanFeb-Good Life AC
Tournament: Sunvite | Round: 1 | Opponent: Neg | Judge: Emily Massey Plan Text: Latin American countries should implement Buen Vivir. GUDYNAS 13 Eduardo Gudynas, Eduardo Gudynas is a senior researcher at the Latin American Center of Social Ecology (CLAES), based in Uruguay. His expertise is on sustainable development and alternatives to development, “Transitions to post-extractivism: directions, options, areas of action”, Beyond Development, August 2013, DDA The development styles...on its own.
It requires certain levels of coordination within Latin America, or at least among neighbouring countries, all of which will take time GUDYNAS 2 clarifies the advocacy: Eduardo Gudynas, Eduardo Gudynas is a senior researcher at the Latin American Center of Social Ecology (CLAES), based in Uruguay. His expertise is on sustainable development and alternatives to development., “Buen Vivir: Today’s tomorrow”, Society for International Development, 2011, DDA Buen Vivir or...and ecological setting
CONTENTION 1 IS DEVELOPMENT
Despite the failures of development, our criticisms merely redefine the concept rather than questioning the core concept of progress itself. If we don’t change this mindset, the logic of development will lead to multiple environmental impacts. ACOSTA 12 Alberto Acosta, Ecuadorian economist with a degree from the University of Cologne, Germany. He is professor at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO) – Ecuador, and a visiting professor at universities in Ecuador and abroad. He acts as an advisor for social movements and as an international consultant. Acosta was the Minister of Energy and Mines of Ecuador, manager of Oil Commercialization for the state-owned company CEPE and an employee at the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE). From 2007 to 2008, he was president of the Constituent Assembly of Ecuador, “The Buen Vivir: An Opportunity to Imagine Another World“, Democracy: Inside a Champion, URL, June 7 2012, DDA In fact, when...will not be fulfilled.
Buen Vivir provides the only mechanism to move beyond Western development. GUDYNAS 3 Eduardo Gudynas, Eduardo Gudynas is a senior researcher at the Latin American Center of Social Ecology (CLAES), based in Uruguay. His expertise is on sustainable development and alternatives to development., “Buen Vivir: Today’s tomorrow”, Society for International Development, 2011, DDA The classical Western...a pluricultural setting
Buen Vivir promotes a solidarity economy focused on promoting a state of sufficiency rather than maximizing efficiency. ACOSTA 2 The basic value...and other inequalities
CONTENTION 2 IS YASUNI Buen Vivir stops oil drilling in Yasuni National Park- Ecuador’s government has developed a plan to leave the oil in the ground premised on Buen Vivir. FATHEUER 11 Thomas Fatheuer, studied social sciences and classical philology in Münster, Germany. From 2002 until 2010 he lived and worked in Brazil, for some of this time as head of the Brazil office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2011 he has worked as a freelance consultant and author in Berlin. , “A brief introduction to Latin America’s new concepts for the good life and the rights of nature”, Heinrich Böll Foundation Green Political Movement, Volume 17 in the Publication Series on Ecology, 2011, DDA Leaving the oil in...a concrete agenda.
Oil drilling in Yasuni wrecks biodiversity and causes deforestation. BASS ET AL. 10 Margot S. Bass, Matt Finer, Clinton N. Jenkins, Holger Kreft, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Shawn F. McCracken, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Peter H. English, Kelly Swing, Gorky Oil development destroys biodiversity, ramps up deforestation, and harms the environment.?Villa, Anthony Di Fiore, Christian C. Voigt, Thomas H. Kunz, January 19, 2010, Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park, http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008767 Explicit in the...the Ecuadorian Amazon
That is an additional link to climate change. WATTS 7/16 Jonathan Watts, Latin America correspondent for the Guardian, “Ecuador approves Yasuni national park oil drilling in Amazon rainforest” The Guardian August 16, 2013 The two main...of climate change
Yasuni is uniquely key to long-term Amazonian biodiversity. BASS 2 Margot S. Bass, Matt Finer, Clinton N. Jenkins, Holger Kreft, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Shawn F. McCracken, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Peter H. English, Kelly Swing, Gorky Villa, Anthony Di Fiore, Christian C. Voigt, Thomas H. Kunz, January 19, 2010, Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park, http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008767 Yasuní National Park...allow upslope migrations
Amazonian biodiversity loss causes extinction. TAKACS 96 David Takacs teaches environmental humanities (history, ethics, justice, politics) in the Institute for Earth Systems Science and Policy at California State “The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise,” 1996, pg. 200-201) So biodiversity keeps...bang but a whimper.
CONTENTION 3 IS SOLVENCY Resource extraction is destroying the environment and is incompatible with Buen Vivir. ACOSTA 3 This transformation should...guarantee adequate jobs
However the Rights of Nature doesn’t require a cessation of all resource use. Resources may be used so long as the functioning of ecosystems constrains the use of resources. ACOSTA 4 These rights do..their native species
Underview Ethical framework
respect for the equality of persons mandates consequentialism. CUMMISKEY Cummiskey, David. Kantian Consequentialism. Published by Oxford University Press. 1996. (p.142). If I sacrifice...some to save many.
2. Moral uncertainty means we default to preventing extinction. Bostrom (2011) Nick Bostrom, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy These reflections on...any existential catastrophe
3. deontological side constraints assume a distinction between acting and choosing not act. Otherwise, those side constraints could apply to mutually exhaustive options and would not tell us which action is moral. Governments are morally responsible for their omissions because they always face choices between different sets of policy options, all of which advantage some while disadvantaging others. Cass R. Sunstein and Vermeule Adrian “Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? Acts, Omissions, and Life-Life Tradeoffs. Copyright (c) 2005 The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University. Stanford Law Review December,2005 58 Stan. L. Rev. 703 The critics of...is not inaction at all. A. INTERPRETATION: The negative must accept the affirmative standard if it is fair, substantively justified in the 1AC, and disclosed on the NDCA wiki prior to the round. Accept means to take as is, so they can’t reconceptualize my standard to exclude aff offense.
1/11/14
JanFeb-Homecoming AC
Tournament: Lexington Round Robin | Round: 5 | Opponent: Davis Labarre | Judge: Mark Gorthey, Devin Kasinki Part 1 is the Framework The structures of knowledge which we engage as debaters are constituted by this underlying Eurocentric supremacy over Latin America – we as debaters must resist colonialism in order to pluralize knowledge and evaluate alternate perspectives ALCOFF 7 (Linda, professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, "Mignolo’s Epistemology of Coloniality", The New Centennial Review, Winter 2007, pp. 79-102) Modernity" was imagined as the house of epistemology. —Walter Mignolo (2006 AND in philosophy departments, it is not necessary to have a single one.
Discussions of epistemology are a prerequisite to argumentation. CRAWFORD 02 Neta, PhD MA MIT, BA Brown, Prof. of poli sci at Boston University, "Argument and Change in World Politics", p. 19-21 Coherent arguments are unlikely to take place unless and until actors, at least on AND entrepreneurs without serious political wrangling." Hence framing is a meta-argument.
Knowledge production comes first in your decision-making calculus—we have a responsibility to attack colonial thinking in ourselves and our community of debate practitioners or systemic violence and dehumanization are inevitable WANZER 12 Darrel, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa in Iowa City) 2012 "Delinking Rhetoric, or Revisiting Mcgee’s Fragmentation Thesis Through Decoloniality" Rhetoric and Public Affairs Page 654 In short, I would submit that we all (regardless of whether we are AND people of color and maintains the hubris of a totalizing and exclusionary episteme.
Part 2 is the Harms: For the last century humans have pursued the unachievable goal of development that has subordinated so-called Developing countries at the hands of developing countries. ACOSTA Alberto Acosta, Ecuadorian economist with a degree from the University of Cologne, Germany. He is professor at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO) – Ecuador, and a visiting professor at universities in Ecuador and abroad. He acts as an advisor for social movements and as an international consultant. Acosta was the Minister of Energy and Mines of Ecuador, manager of Oil Commercialization for the state-owned company CEPE and an employee at the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE). From 2007 to 2008, he was president of the Constituent Assembly of Ecuador, “The Buen Vivir: An Opportunity to Imagine Another World“, Democracy: Inside a Champion, URL, June 7 2012, DDA Since the middle of the 20th century, the phantom of development a AND , if we consider what they actually achieved to be real "development."
Historically, development has been used as a power device that has harmed the environment and devalues the lifestyles of the global South. LANG 13 Miriam Lang, Director of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Andean Region Office. She has a PhD in Sociology from the Free University of Berlin, with a specialization in Gender Studies, and a Masters in Latin American Studies, "The Crisis of Civilisation and challenges for the left", Beyond Development: Alternative visions from Latin America, August 2013, DDA Symbolically, development is linked to a promise of well-being, happiness and AND category of underdevelopment also forged "underdeveloped" subjectivities in the global South.
Research has proven that developed countries exploit developing countries by taking advantage of their natural resources while forcing them to bear the environmental burden. DOWNEY ET AL. 10 Liam Downey, Eric Bonds, and Katherine Clark, Liam Downey is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He studies environmental inequality in metropolitan America, armed violence and environmental degradation, and the role that organizational, institutional, and network-based inequality play in shaping local, regional, and global environmental problems. Eric Bonds is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His dissertation investigates how the U.S. military responds to the emergence of global humanitarian norms, either by altering its weapons policies to bring them into conformance with new norms or by attempting to legitimate existing weapons policies that are not in compliance. His previous research has been published in the journals Critical Sociology and Symbolic Interaction, Katherine Clark is a graduate student in environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She studies the political economy of extractive industries and food systems, with an emphasis on democratic decision making in such systems. She also studies social movements for food security and food sovereignty., “Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation”, University of Colorado at Boulder, published December 23, 2010, accessed December 26 2013, DDA international political economy (Rice, 2009). Based in the world systems theory tradition AND , Cunningham, 26 Rau, 1999; Clark 26 Foster, 2009).
Plan Text: Latin American countries should implement Buen Vivir to reshape their approach to public policy. GUDYNAS 11 clarifies the advocacy: Eduardo Gudynas, Eduardo Gudynas is a senior researcher at the Latin American Center of Social Ecology (CLAES), based in Uruguay. His expertise is on sustainable development and alternatives to development., "Buen Vivir: Today’s tomorrow", Society for International Development, 2011, DDA Buen Vivir or Vivir Bien, are the Spanish words used in Latin America to AND there are many different interpretations depending on cultural, historical and ecological setting.
Resource extraction is destroying the environment and is incompatible with Buen Vivir. ACOSTA 2 This transformation Buen Vivir is should, of course, be extended to AND the workforce, which, moreover, does not even guarantee adequate jobs.
Buen Vivir goes beyond alternative development by taking a holistic view of our global community and proposing a means of achieving good life without an endless path to development. It promotes a pluralist ideology contrary to anthropocentric capitalism. ACOSTA 3 Within the context of post-developmental discussions, the efforts to reconstruct and even AND and in social living spaces, in schools and health centers, etc. Prefer solvency mechanisms that are formulated by local populations because any other alternative will simply entrench the idea of colonialism by forcing upon populations another Western logic.
Buen Vivir has empirically succeeded in multiple countries. CEPR Center for Economic and Policy Research, The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established in 1999 to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. CEPR conducts both professional research and public education. The professional research is oriented towards filling important gaps in the understanding of particular economic and social problems, or the impact of specific policies.., “Policies to Match the Rhetoric: Buen Vivir in Ecuador”, Source, URL, November 6, 2012, DDA Buen vivir is described theoretically as a synthesis of indigenous cultural wisdom and Western concepts AND development strategy to improve living standards and quality of life throughout the country.
1/26/14
MarApr- Aid Aff
Tournament: Needham | Round: 1 | Opponent: Revere KK | Judge: Yanhe Fan I affirm and value justice because the resolution is a question of just action.
My value criterion is the protection of universal human rights.
Babb defines humanitarian aid as: Cites Stephen Babb, Credentials, “Victory Birefs topic Analysis: March April 2014, Victory Briefs LLC, 2014, DDA There’s an important on this topic.
Torson clarifies that: Adam Torson, JD, “Topic Analysis by Adam Torson”, Victory Briefs, 2014 Humanitarian aid is care, and shelter.
JUSTIFICATION- every agent is entitled to justify his own way of life---human rights protect our ability to challenge norms that we don’t like. FORST Rainer Forst 12, Professor of Political Theory at the Department for Social Sciences, "The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification. A Reflexive Approach; Rainer Forst." Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights, Corradetti, Claudio (Ed). 2012. Human rights are to express that.
2. VALUE TO LIFE- states should respect each individual’s ability to make their own life choices and pursue goals to the greatest extent possible WARD Tony Ward 09, Professor of Clinical Psychology Victoria University of Wellington, "Dignity and Human Rights in Correctional Practice", European Journal of Probation, University of Bucharest, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2009. The question of demeaning and dehumanising (Lazarus, 2004; Lippke, 2002).
Aid has historically been successful in ensuring human rights because donors function under the same universal humanitarian principle. JANICE KOPINAK writes Janice K. Kopinak, “Humanitarian Aid: Are Effectiveness and Sustainability Impossible Dreams?”, The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, http://sites.tufts.edu/jha/archives/1935, March 10, 2013, DDA International humanitarian aid vulnerable people worldwide.
However, effective aid can not be delivered when donors each give aid with diverse mandates that represent their own distinct values. KOPINAK 2 Humanitarian aid represents progress and successes both past and present.
Contention 3 is international law: Attaching conditions to humanitarian aid violates the international legal right to assistance in times of disaster. DAVID CHANDLER School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages, University of Westminster, “The road to military humanitarianism: how the human rights NGOs shaped a new humanitarian agenda,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3 (August 2001) Attaching conditions to values and practices.
Contention 4 is democratization: Conditional aid does not succeed in improving governance RICHARD YOUNGS “The end of democratic conditionality: good riddance?” Fride: Working Paper 102 (September 2010) Elsewhere, the use his son to power.
Political conditionality make democratization significantly harder in recipient countries. Aid must be given unconditionally. RICHARD YOUNGS “The end of democratic conditionality: good riddance?” Fride: Working Paper 102 (September 2010) Academic studies weigh have any effect
3/17/14
Marks AC
Tournament: NSD | Round: 2 | Opponent: Alex Wong | Judge: Claire Kueffner
1AC
Historical discrimination against blacks creates modern-day barriers to economic success.
HOLLAND 6/4
~Joshua Holland, Senior Digital Producer at BillMoyers.com, and host of Politics and Reality Radio. He’s the author of The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy, "The Past Isn’t Past: The Economic Case for Reparations" http://billmoyers.com/2014/06/04/the-past-isnt-past-the-economic-case-for-reparations/, June 4, 2014, DDA~ But that sentiment AND unequal playing field."
Thus the plan, Resolved: Congress will pass a reparations initiative to print 2455 billion for 25 months and divide the proceeds evenly among every Black American citizen as reparations for past injustices including but not limited to slavery and Jim Crow era discrimination. Top of the docket, passes immediately, I defend normal means
YGLESIAS 5/23
~Matthew Yglesias, economics journalist, executive editor of Vox, winner of the Hillman journalist prize for writers who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good, "Slavery reparations are workable and affordable" http://www.vox.com/2014/5/23/5741294/slavery-reparations-are-workable-and-affordable, May 23, 2014, DDA~ Ta-Nehisi Coates’ essay on "The AND them to do so.
Contention 1 is econ
The US economy is losing momentum – greatest decline since the Great Recession Kurtz 6-16 writes Annalyn Kurtz (CNN money senior writer). “US economy: Not looking so good.” CNN Money. June 16th, 2014. http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/16/news/economy/imf-us-forecast/ When it comes AND American goods declined.
scenario a is stimulus
Reparations would generate a much needed stimulus for the economy.
scenario b is income inequality- the plan solves for the huge raical divide in income, that’s the yglesias evidence above.
Decreasing inequality is key to sustained economic growth.
Harkinson 11 ~Josh Harkinson (staff reporter). "Study: Income Inequality Kills Economic Growth." Mother Jones. October 4th, 2011~ AJ "Countries where income AND the hard way."
Economic collapse causes competition for resources and instability that triggers hotspots around the globe – co-opts all other causes of war
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Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer is a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis" http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf Increased Potential for Global Conflict Of course, the AND in a more dog-eat-dog world.
Tournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: x | Judge: x Plan text- Resolved: the United States Federal Government will print $55 billion for 25 months and divide the proceeds evenly among every African American citizen as reparations for past injustices including but not limited to slavery and Jim Crow era discrimination.
standard texts- maximizing expected well-being minimizing existential risk
7/31/14
NovDec- Safety AC
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Isis Davis-Marks | Judge: Jordan Lamothe I affirm.
The term “precedence over” in the context of “take precedence over” is defined by The Free Legal Dictionary as “the right to come before someone or something else; greater importance than someone or something else.
Ought is defined as consistency with function. MacINTYRE Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, 1981 Yet in fact the alleged unrestrictedly...something’s being a good watch
The function of our criminal justice system is promoting secure communities, which requires preventing crime. A group of 8 distinguished CJS experts in a Princeton Study group under the direction of the US department of justice came to the conclusion that: BJS John J. DiIulio Jr, Geoffrey P. Alpert, Mark H. Moore, George F. Cole, Joan Petersilia, Charles H. Logan, James Q. Wilson, Credentials, Performance Measures for the Criminal Justice System, US Department of Justice Princeton Project, http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pmcjs.pdf, October 1993, DDA In the light of this history...abandoned cars, broken windows, and abandoned buildings Thus, the standard is minimizing crime.
Reaching capital T truth is impossible, so we should adopt a pragmatic conception of ought. JAMES Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking - William James 1907. Print Take, for instance, yonder object...usually justified by all that happens
AC Proper: Status quo US policies favor ACP over public safety. I advocate for the implementation of Canadian public safety exceptions to the ACP. MARBLE 1 Andrew Marble, master’s degree in law from Tufts University and PhD in political science from Brown University, University of Pennsylvania Law Journal, “A Comparative Discussion Of Attorney-Client Confidentiality Rules And The Public Safety Exception To Nondisclosure In The United States And Canada”, DDA A mandatory disclosure rule may seem...public safety in disclosure circumstances
The disclosure law would read as follows MARBLE 2. An attorney who believes there...tainted by the immunized information
Inherency: Attorneys will only disclose information if mandated due to a perceived threat that disclosure poses to their own safety. MARBLE 3 Another consideration in the debate concerning...to adequately protect their personal safety.
Attorneys are disincentivized to disclose in a system of permissive disclosure that they can be held liable in. MARBLE 4 Another problem presented in the...that the disclosure rules seek to foster.
My advocacy decreases violent crime. MARBLE 5 I would argue that the Canadian...the importance of confidentiality is paramount.
The plan decreases felonies- the worst crimes. SUBIN Harry I. Subin, Professor of Law, New York University. B.A. 1957, Oberlin College, “The Lawyer as Superego: Disclosure of Client Confidences to Prevent Harm”, Iowa Law Review, July, 1985, DDA Mandatory disclosure of client misconduct...responsibility to investigate and prosecute crime.
If neg wins an interp on T, reevaluate the round under their interp 2. CX checks all violations on topicality shells about specificity of aff advocacy 3. Aff gets RVIs
UNDERVIEW 3 is chilling: A chilling effect on attorney-client communication is unlikely and unverifiable. MARBLE 7 A common argument in favor of...situations where future harm is possible
The Government of Pakistan should make voting compulsory.
The United States should implement Australia’s Compulsory Voting system.
The National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan should pass a compulsory voting law for all citizens age 18 or older.
Standard Text: The standard is maximizing expected well being.
11/10/13
SeptOct - Handsome Dan AC
Tournament: Yale | Round: 6 | Opponent: All Aff rounds | Judge: I affirm and value morality. “In” is defined as “used for showing where someone or something is” , so the phrase “In a democracy” in the resolution merely indicates the setting under which voting ought to be compulsory, rather than placing a burden on the aff to show compulsory voting is best for democratic ideals.
The standard is maximizing expected well being. First, respect for the equality of persons mandates consequentialism. CUMMISKEY Cummiskey, David. Kantian Consequentialism. Published by Oxford University Press. 1996. (p.142). If I sacrifice some ... some to save many.
Second, deontological side constraints assume a distinction between acting and choosing not act. Otherwise, those side constraints could apply to mutually exhaustive options and would not tell us which action is moral. Additionally, governments are morally responsible for their omissions because they always face choices between different sets of policy options, all of which advantage some while disadvantaging others. Cass R. Sunstein and Vermeule Adrian “Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? Acts, Omissions, and Life-Life Tradeoffs. Copyright (c) 2005 The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University. Stanford Law Review December,2005 58 Stan. L. Rev. 703 The critics of capital punishment ... specific moral context.
Fourth, We all believe that we ought morally make the world better when we can—the burden of proof is on them to show otherwise. Thus, winning reasons to reject their standard is sufficient reason to default to the AC even if I do not win proactive reason to prefer mine. SINOTT-ARMSTRONG Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, and#34;Consequentialismand#34;, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/consequentialism/. Even if consequentialists ... as consequentialists claim.
Plan Text: The United States will adopt Australia’s Compulsory Voting system. Norman Ornstein, Ph.D in politics clarifies the advocacy. Norman Ornstein, Ph.D political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute- a Washington DC think tank, also has been published by Washington Post and several other magazine, also named one of the top 100 Global thinkers by Foreign Policy for “diagnosing America’s political dysfunction” and has written several books on America’s political dysfunction, “Vote—or Else”, Source- The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/opinion/10ornstein.html?_r=1and, August 10, 2006, DDA So what can ... a societal obligation.
Only compulsory voting solves low voter turnout. WHITE Alex White, national marketing advisor working in the labour movement with a decade of policy, campaigns and public relations experience. His background is complemented by professional and leadership roles in the trade union movement, chariies, environmental and political organisations, “In Defense of Compulsory Voting, source- NewMatilda, https://newmatilda.com/2013/01/14/defence-compulsory-voting, January 14, 2003, DDA The experience in... 94 per cent.
Analysis of introducing and abolishing CV confirms solvency is causation not correlation. ENGELEN 07 Bart Engelen, 2007. Research Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research. “Why Compulsory Voting Can Enhance Democracy” Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, This method, however, encounters ...reinforce each other (Keaney and Rogers, 2006, 18–20).
Advantage 1 is Global Warming The brink is now, warming will be an existential threat this century. MAZO 10 Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, “Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it,” pg. 122, DDA The best estimates for global ... cultural and political changes.
The warming debate is over- the only thing stopping legislation is partisanship. GUBER 1 Deborah Lynn Guber, Political Science professor at University of Vermont). “A Cooling Climate for Change? Party Polarization and the Politics of Global Warming.”, Source: American Behavioral Scientist. Vol. 57, No. 1. January 2013. http://abs.sagepub.com/content/57/1/93.full.pdf+html, DDA Although such ... intensely partisan issue (Guber and Bosso, 2009).
Empirics prove polarization is increasing now. DUNLAP 2 Has the political ... the past decade.
Polarization makes effective global warming policy impossible. In the status quo, candidates can only get elected by taking an extreme stance on warming. DUNLAP 3 Our findings have ... opposed to climate policies (Goode and Bravender 2010).19
SOLVENCY: Compulsory voting solves polarization in congress by increasing participation of moderates, thus allowing for effective warming legislation. SHINEMAN Victoria Shineman (Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, Politics PhD from NYU). “More on Mandatory Voting, Which Does *Not* Necessarily Make Electorate Less Informed.” 28 November 2011. The American Prospect. http://www.billmadden.com/activist360/2011/11/more-on-mandatory-voting-which-does-not-necessarily-make-electorate-less-informed/, DDA The information effect also ... increase the participation among moderates.
Australia proves that moderate voters are the focus of elections with compulsory voting. ORNSTEIN 2 Norman Ornstein, Ph.D political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute- a Washington DC think tank, also has been published by Washington Post and several other magazine, also named one of the top 100 Global thinkers by Foreign Policy for “diagnosing America’s political dysfunction” and has written several books on America’s political dysfunction, “Vote—or Else”, Source- The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/opinion/10ornstein.html?_r=1and, August 10, 2006, DDA The unhappy effects of low turnout ... value the freedom not to vote.
IMPACT: Warming causes extinction. TICKELL 8 Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Guardian, 8-11, “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange, DDA We need to get prepared for four degrees .... propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth.
Advantage 2 is income equality Multiple studies prove CV increases income distribution. SCHAFER Armin Schafer, Armin Schafer is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, a German research institute in Cologne, Germany. He holds multiple advanced degrees in social science areas, and received his PhD at the University Bremen. He has been with his research institute for 10 years., “Republican Liberty and Compulsory Voting”, Source- Social Science Research Network, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2018112, November 1, 2011, DDA Cross-national studies also show ... and translate into different policy outcomes.
2 Impacts:
Oppression- Inequality leads to the oppression of the poor. FLEURBAEY 04 Marc Fleurbaey, Woodrow Wilson School, University Center for Human Values. Program on Welfare Economics and Social Justice, Institute for Global Studies, FMSH, Paris. “Poverty As a Form Of Oppression”. Print. 2004. DDA There are thus different possible degrees ..., at least of the case 2 form.
2. Crime- There is a positive casual correlation between violent crime and income inequality, multiple studies prove. MacEWAN Arthur MacEwan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, and Senior Fellow, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston, “An End in Itself and a Means to Good Ends: Why Income Equality is Important”, http://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024andcontext=csp_pubs, January 1st, 2009, DDA Yet, it is the connection between ... regarding the intrinsic value of economic equality.
Violent crime affects over a million Americans each year. UHF United Health Foundation, The United Health Foundation was established by UnitedHealth Group in 1999 as a not-for-profit, private foundation dedicated to improving health and health care. It has raised over $200 million to help people lead healthier lives, “United States Violent Crime (1990-2012), Source: United Health Foundation, http://www.americashealthrankings.org/all/crime, DDA The violent crime rate measures the effect ... and $6 billion in direct medical costs5.
UNDERVIEW 1 IS AFC
UNDERVIEW 2 IS THEORY
UNDERVIEW 3 is extinction first:
Moral uncertainty means we default to preventing extinction. BOSTROM 1 (2011) Nick Bostrom, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy These reflections on moral uncertainty suggests an ... we must prevent any existential catastrophe.
2. If there’s any risk of consequentialism being true, extinction is bad for the purposes of decision making. BOSTROM 2 “There will be some types of putative ...the subjective sense relevant to decision making.”
Underview to the framework: The definition of ought implies utilitarianism. HARRIS Harris, Sam. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (2010) But this notion of “ought” is an artificial... fully ignore the link between morality and human well-being.
