Our latest global development podcast features researchers, peace advocates and a former UN representative debating the key drivers of conflict and what role women, the UN and others can play in peacebuilding.
New to my job and with fire in my belly about women's reproductive rights, I joined a panel as the pro-choice representative debating with an anti-abortion speaker at a 6th form religious education conference.
We can only hope that voters have become hip enough to the game that they demand their representatives debate early and often.
However, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council, which includes state, industry and environmental representatives, debated the issue for years, he said, and believed that the allocation represents the best combined wisdom.
And from the moment you step over the threshold, you can see your parliamentary representatives debating, asking questions and holding the government to account.
Many council sessions (www.bioethics.gov/transcripts /transcripttopic.html) involve more traditional material: comments by visiting scientists, medical advocacy groups and biotech representatives; debates about cloning or aging; summaries of recent research.
Just recently, YouTube launched a project called YouTube Town Hall, which features United States Senators and Representatives debating current and important issues.
During a national Clinical Trials Thinktank workshop in April 2007 in the UK, a group of 30 senior researchers experienced in clinical trials for musculoskeletal conditions and 2 patient representatives debated the possible explanations for the findings of recent high quality trials of non-pharmacological interventions.
As Representative Paul D. Ryan debated Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday night, he sometimes seemed to be defending his own past budget and Medicare proposals as much as his running mate's plans — sometimes in misleading ways.
We have ourselves been closely involved in supporting efforts by UK industry to reduce discards, particularly through the work of our Discard Action Group DAGG) – an important working forum bringing together key industry representatives to debate the topic and seek solutions.
