About
This site is dedicated to educate about debates and promote the value of debate by critically approaching and providing analyses for ongoing election debates.
Visitors will find election debate analyses and comments by certified International Debate Education Association (IDEA) debate trainers and experts. Our experts include University professors, international debate trainers and authors of respected debate publications. They will provide their expert analysis and comments exclusively on this for you.
You won’t always agree with the analysis, and we encourage you to comment and to write your opinions on this site. IDEA welcome the debate.
IDEA develops, organizes, educate and promotes debate and debate-related activities in communities throughout the world.
Our Purpose
- To educate the public about debates and the value of debate
- To promote the values of debate
- To inspire critical discussion and analysis about election debates
- To improve the quality of election debate
Our Principles
Our experts will analyse debates by applying the objective rules of debate. These rules will be applied rigorously in order to ensure an impartial, unbiased assessment, regardless of the adjudicators personal or political opinions.
Respect: we will not publish comments which may be considered offensive or discriminatory. We want to encourage widespread participation in debate discussion based on mutual respect.