Overview

The club aims to improve member’s public speaking skills as well as their debating abilities. Debates are held according to JCI’s debating guidelines, which can be downloaded from this page. During each meeting, which is held once a month members are divided into groups and can debate for and against any motion they choose.

Heated debates have been known to occur. Training courses by JCI trainers were delivered twice for the year 2009. JCI Aleppo is also planning for debating competition with other local JCI chapters in Syria, and possibly working towards participating in the JCI world debating competition which will be held during the JCI world congress in Tunisia.

Projects Director: Farah AlBash
JCI World Debating Championship to take place in Hammamet, Tunisia.

One of the highlights of the 2009 JCI World Congress in Hammamet, Tunisia will be the JCI World Debating Championship sponsored by 1963 JCI President Eric H. Stevenson.

The World Debating Championship takes place in November, 2009 in three languages, English, French and Spanish. National Organizations are encouraged to register teams for this program as well as for the championships at the area conferences.

A team should have four members: three debaters and one adjudicator. Due to time constraints there will be a limit in the number of teams admitted.

Debate for university students' project:
What is the debate competition?

There will be an orientation session after which interested participants may register to join the project.
There will be a training session on how to debate and accordingly the participants will debate for a nd against issues that matter for the youth till they reach the finals where the winning team is going to be announced and the participants will get their certificates and awards. Only the participants who attend all the sessions are eligible to go to the finals.
For the coming phases of the project, we are planning to run competitions with other universities from Aleppo and other local cities. Competitors may also proceed to go to the JCI World Debate.

Why the debate competition?

Every day student faces a situation where they stand in front of the audience to deliver a presentation or argue for or against an idea. Thus, we decided to help students improve their public speaking and debating skills.

To whom?

The program is directed to the students following the M.A programs in the faculties of Economics, Humanities and Literature, and The Higher Institute of Languages in the University of Aleppo.
In the coming phases we will run the project for the students in the graduation year in different departments of the universities of Syria.