Resolutions

Rd 1 - Resolved: The United States federal government should immediately establish a program to create a permanent human colony on Mars by 2040.

Rd 2 - Resolved: South Africa should prohibit any non-governmental legal person from owning more than 12,000 domestic hectares of agricultural land and should purchase and redistribute the excess land.

Rd 3 - Resolved: The Bank of Japan should end its quantitative easing program.

Rd 4 - Resolved: Ukraine should end all offensive military operations against the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic.

Rd 5a - Resolved: The United States federal government should ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants and should phase out all existing coal-fired power plants by 2025.

Rd 5b - Resolved: The European Union should mandate women comprise at least 40 percent of each corporate supervisory board.

Rd 5c - Resolved: high school tournaments that offer parliamentary debate should generally allow parliamentary debaters to consult in preparation time with anyone except their judges and the resolution writers.

Rd 6a - Resolved: The United States federal government should end its lethal use of drones in Pakistan.

Rd 6b - Resolved: The United States federal government should join and accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

Rd 6c - Resolved: The United States federal government should remove the PKK (also known as Kongra-Gel or Kurdish Workers' Party) from the United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Rd Qa - Resolved: NATO should send ground troops to Iraq to combat the Islamic State.

Rd Qb - Resolved: Greece should default on its debt, switch its currency to the drachma, and implement capital controls.

Rd Qc - Resolved: American colleges and universities should divest from the Israeli government and from businesses that provide significant material support for Israel's occupation of the West Bank.

Rd Sa - Resolved: The United States federal government should suspend all aid to Saudi Arabia until Saudi Arabia ends all of its military operations and military assistance in Yemen

Rd Sb - Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly privatize veterans' health care.

Rd Sc - Resolved: The California State Government should make California a "right-to-work" state.

Rd Fa - Resolved: The United States federal government should ban hydraulic fracturing.

Rd Fb - Resolved: The United States federal government should intervene in Nigeria with ground troops to combat Boko Haram.

Rd Fc - Resolved: The United States federal government should send significant lethal military aid to Ukraine.