An Overview and Comparison of Contemporary Debate Formats

Debating has long achieved an institutional status and there are several “best-practice” proposals. The report titled "An Overview and Comparison of Contemporary Debate Formats" attends to the common and divergent aspects of the interactional formats currently used in international debate tournaments and competitions. It focuses more closely on four main formats, but also shortly reviews other formats, foregrounding the Ethics Bowl. It identifies the strengths and weaknesses of dominant debate practices and, hence, provides an integral element of the White Paper on Munāẓara.

The report is available below with its four appendices.