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+==Part One – Framing:== |
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+====The standard is mitigating structural violence. Structural violence is inherently flawed because it occurs because of arbitrary differences we perceive between different groups of people. Winter and Leighton 99:==== |
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+Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter|Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgeable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and justice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice "Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century." Pg 4-5 SA-IB |
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+Finally, to recognize the operation of … empower citizens to reduce it |
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+====Focus on material realities of oppression is key – abstract thinking about moral norms reifies oppression. Curry 14:==== |
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+Curry, Dr. Tommy J. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Africana Studies, and a Ray A. Rothrock Fellow at Texas AandM University; first Black JV National Debate champion (for UMKC) and was half of the first all Black CEDA team to win the Pi Kappa Delta National Debate Tournament “The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century.” SA-IB |
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+Despite the pronouncement of debate … our ideological tendencies and politics.’ |
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+==Part Two – Armenia:== |
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+====Armenia wants new reactors, but they have been delayed – all they have is Metsamor and that’s what they’re stuck with. Sahakyan 4/27:==== |
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+Armine, human rights activist in Armenia and columnist at the Kyiv Post and the Huffington Post. “Armenia Continues to Gamble on Aging Nuclear Plant in a Quake-Prone Area” April 27, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/armine-sahakyan/armenia-continues-to-gamb_b_9788186.html SA-IB |
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+Armenia was supposed to have … Some nuclear experts agree, but some don’t. |
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+====Metsamor is going to explode – it’s built on earthquake terrain and relies on old technology – no containment for the meltdown. Lavelle and Garthwaithe 11:==== |
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+Marianne Lavelle and Josie Garthwaithe, National Geographic News. “Is Armenia’s Nuclear Plant the World’s Most Dangerous?” April 14, 2011. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/04/110412-most-dangerous-nuclear-plant-armenia/ SA-IB |
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+In the shadow of Mount Ararat, the … a report by the U.S. Electric Power Research Institute. |
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+====Metsamor’s meltdown would destroy their agriculture and spread radiation across neighboring countries. Sahakyan 4/27:==== |
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+Armine, human rights activist in Armenia and columnist at the Kyiv Post and the Huffington Post. “Armenia Continues to Gamble on Aging Nuclear Plant in a Quake-Prone Area” April 27, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/armine-sahakyan/armenia-continues-to-gamb_b_9788186.html SA-IB |
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+An accident at Metsamor would … and Armenian neighbors Georgia and Iran. |
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+====Armenian agricultural collapse causes mass poverty. McKinley 02:==== |
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+Terry, Senior Policy Adviser on poverty and macroeconomic policies in the Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP, New York. “Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Armenia” Chapter 4: Poverty and the Character of Growth. August 2002. |
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+The impact of agriculture on poverty … agricultural wealth had a propoor impact. |
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+====Thus the plan: The Republic of Armenia ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. Only the plan solves – no new infrastructure for new plants – if they want production, they will have to take loans which fractures their economy. McGinnity 15:==== |
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+Ian, Region Studies Center (a think tank in Armenia that analyzes policy options for the government and does risk analysis for the results of those policies). “Risky Business – Roadblocks to Building Armenia’s New Nuclear Power Plant” May 25, 2015. http://regional-studies.org/blog/445-250515#_edn4 |
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+Most importantly, Armenia faces feeble … investors against risk of failure. |
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+==Part Three – Underview:== |
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+====Reject the argument on T—if they win I’ll defend whole res. A) Substantive education—theory layer goes away and we get to debate the aff advantages which still apply—outweighs since education is the only reason people join the debate. B) Aff strat—dropping the debater makes affirming impossible because there’s always some interp that the aff violates.==== |
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+====Specifying is good – its key to policymaking because literally no one advocates for a global ban. Energy policies in different countries are extremely different and require context which means that only specifying can lead to education about the topic.==== |
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+====Aff gets RVIs – 1. AFF flex – neg has the ability to collapse to either layer so aff needs the same ability– this outweighs. A. 2NR collapse – time skew becomes 6-1 since I have to cover multiple layers in the 1AR, which makes it impossible to win B. 1AR is too short to read theory compared to the neg so AFF needs each layer to be reciprocal rather than adding more unreciprocal avenues 2. Only neg can read T because only AFF has a T burden so since aff can’t reciprocally respond they need the RVI to compensate for neg’s unique avenue to the ballot.==== |
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+====Adopt a stance of methodological pluralism – that allows us to reclaim IR as an emancipatory praxis and avoid endless violence. Bleiker 14:==== |
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+(6/17, Roland, Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, “International Theory Between Reification and Self-Reflective Critique,” International Studies Review, Volume 16, Issue 2, pages 325–327) |
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+This book is part of an increasing … could have been explored in more detail. |
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+====Simulated national security law debates preserve agency and enhance decision-making-~~-~-avoids cooption. Donohue 13:==== |
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+Laura K. Donohue 13, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law, 4/11, “National Security Law Pedagogy and the Role of Simulations”, http://jnslp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/National-Security-Law-Pedagogy-and-the-Role-of-Simulations.pdf |
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+The concept of simulations as … , it suggests one potential direction for the years to come. |
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+====Policymaking is good and valuable – key for emancipation. Coverstone 05:==== |
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+Alan, MBA. “Acting on Activism” |
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+Now what distinguishes ideal …conceptions of the social order. |