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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVbiVDeenY&feature=youtu.be This video takes through the basic similarities and differences of US styles of debate (LD, CX, PF, Parli) and World Schools debate.

Here are a couple of interviews I did about Al Shabaab following the attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Please click on the links below to listen to them: My interview with BBC's Newshour programme My interview with NPR Voice of Russia Voice of Russia debate Lots of my friends are using this image as their Facebook profile picture. I contributed to an Al Jazeera programme about media coverage of the Westgate siege: Al Jazeera's Listening Post

The words 'Somalia' and 'conference' seem glued together. There have been several this year alone - in London, Turkey, Tokyo and now in Brussels... The Brussels one on 16 September is about a 'Somali-led' 'New Deal' for Somalia.  The UN top man for Somalia, Nick Kay, told the BBC that the Brussels meeting was 'the last international conference on the horizon' for Somalia - let us see..... The Islamist group, Al Shabaab, which controls most of the southern and central parts of Somalia described the conference as "Belgian waffle". Here's something I did for the BBC ahead of the conference:     (CUE: The European Union and Somalia are on Monday 16 September co-hosting a conference in Brussels on a 'New Deal' for Somalia. The New Deal process -- which was endorsed at a conference on aid-effectiveness in 2011 -- is meant to give fragile countries more power in deciding their development needs. Somalia -- which has been in a state

Lecture - WUDC - Points of Information (intermediate) - Selleck - North America Debate Academy 2013 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo . A lecture delivered to the intermediate group by Sarina Selleck of the University of Vermont . http://debateacademy.net/Debate_Academy/NADA_Vermont.html This video was shot and produced at the North America Debate Academy held at the University of Vermont in August 2013 for university students. The event was hosted by the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ and organized by them and the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html . Look for news about the 2014 program at the website above. This video is produced by DEBATE CENTRAL (http://debate.uvm.edu ) a debating website founded in 1994. DEBATE CENTRAL is a non-profit service of the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html , the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/Team.html and the Universit

Lecture - WUDC - Points of Information (advanced) - Ferris - North America Debate Academy from Alfred Snider on Vimeo . A lecture given to the advanced group by Monica Ferris from the University of Toronto . http://debateacademy.net/Debate_Academy/NADA_Vermont.html This video was shot and produced at the North America Debate Academy held at the University of Vermont in August 2013 for university students. The event was hosted by the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ and organized by them and the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html . Look for news about the 2014 program at the website above. This video is produced by DEBATE CENTRAL (http://debate.uvm.edu ) a debating website founded in 1994. DEBATE CENTRAL is a non-profit service of the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html , the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/Team.html and the University of Vermont htt

Lecture - General - Debating about Egypt - Selleck - North America Debate Academy 2013 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo . A briefing presented as an elective course by Sarina Selleck of the University of Vermont . http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/huber/CA_DCAs.html Related articles Lecture - General - Argumentation Do and Do Not - Golden - Cameroon Debate Academy 2013 Lecture - General - Debating Economics - Sadek - BWDA 2013 Lecture - General - Sound More Persuasive - Sadek - BWDA 2013 Lecture - General - Debating Bioethics - Ferris - BWDA 2013 Lecture - General - Argument Building - Golden - Cameroon Debate Academy 2013

Lecture - General - Debating Bitcoin - Sadek - North America Debate Academy 2013 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo . An elective lecture given by John Sadek of the University of Vermont . http://debateacademy.net/Debate_Academy/NADA_Vermont.html This video was shot and produced at the North America Debate Academy held at the University of Vermont in August 2013 for university students. The event was hosted by the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ and organized by them and the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html . Look for news about the 2014 program at the website above. This video is produced by DEBATE CENTRAL (http://debate.uvm.edu ) a debating website founded in 1994. DEBATE CENTRAL is a non-profit service of the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html , the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/Team.html and the University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/ , and is d

Lecture - WUDC - Advanced Debate Tactics - Patrick - North America Debate Academy 2013 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo . A lecture by John Patrick of La Verne and now Cal Poly San Luis Obispo . http://debateacademy.net/Debate_Academy/NADA_Vermont.html This video was shot and produced at the North America Debate Academy held at the University of Vermont in August 2013 for university students. The event was hosted by the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ and organized by them and the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html . Look for news about the 2014 program at the website above. This video is produced by DEBATE CENTRAL (http://debate.uvm.edu ) a debating website founded in 1994. DEBATE CENTRAL is a non-profit service of the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html , the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/Team.html and the University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/

Lecture - WUDC - Second Teams (intermediate) - Gross - North America Debate Academy 2013 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo . A lecture delivered by Paul Gross of Cornell University . http://debateacademy.net/Debate_Academy/NADA_Vermont.html This video was shot and produced at the North America Debate Academy held at the University of Vermont in August 2013 for university students. The event was hosted by the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ and organized by them and the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html . Look for news about the 2014 program at the website above. This video is produced by DEBATE CENTRAL (http://debate.uvm.edu ) a debating website founded in 1994. DEBATE CENTRAL is a non-profit service of the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html , the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/Team.html and the University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/ , and is desig

Lecture - WUDC - Second Teams (advanced) - Sadek - North America Debate Academy 2013 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo . A lecture delivered by John Sadek of the University of Vermont . http://debateacademy.net/Debate_Academy/NADA_Vermont.html This video was shot and produced at the North America Debate Academy held at the University of Vermont in August 2013 for university students. The event was hosted by the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ and organized by them and the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html . Look for news about the 2014 program at the website above. This video is produced by DEBATE CENTRAL (http://debate.uvm.edu ) a debating website founded in 1994. DEBATE CENTRAL is a non-profit service of the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html , the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/Team.html and the University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/ , and is designed

Lecture - WUDC - First Teams (intermediate) - Sadek - North America Debate Academy 2013 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo . A lecture delivered to the intermediate group by John Sadek of the University of Vermont . http://debateacademy.net/Debate_Academy/NADA_Vermont.html This video was shot and produced at the North America Debate Academy held at the University of Vermont in August 2013 for university students. The event was hosted by the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ and organized by them and the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html . Look for news about the 2014 program at the website above. This video is produced by DEBATE CENTRAL (http://debate.uvm.edu ) a debating website founded in 1994. DEBATE CENTRAL is a non-profit service of the World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html , the Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/Team.html and the University of Vermont htt