Public Debate: Violence and Social Change

PHOTO: Justin Green of Kansas State University, Adam Lee of Vermont Law School and Maxwell Schnurer of Humboldt State University, participants in the debate.

This debate was held at the 2003 World Debate Institute which took place at the University of Vermont. The topic of the debate was, what role should violence pay in social change? The format was unique in that there were three sides: Violence is a necessary element of social change (Adam Lee), non-violence should be the exclusive method for social change (Justin Green) and that violence should be used but only in certain situations (Maxwell Schnurer). Each debater had an opening speech, then there was a very lengthy question period for the audience to get involved, then each debater gave a summary speech. The involvement of the audience was excellent.

This video is in a large RealPlayer file. You may need to download the entire thing, then click on it to watch it with RealPlayer.

The file is at http://real.uvm.edu:554/ramgen/debate/wdi03violence.rm

Sorry for the different format, but the debate is too good to wait until I learn how to translate .rm into .mp4.