A papal conclave is convened when the College of Cardinals needs to appoint the successor of The Pope. The College of Cardinals is appointed by the current Pope and usually consists of ordained bishops.

Blaxploitation movies refer to groups of films that feature black actors in lead roles and center around African diasporas overcoming oppressive, antagonistic and generally white authority figures aided by lackeys selling out the community for their personal gain. The term "blaxploitation" was coined by parts of the community in the early 70s as criticism for the images of African Americans depicted in the genre, and the typically white filmmakers at the helm of production. Prominent films of this genre range from "Watermelon Man" and "Blacula" from the 1970s to more recent films like "Django Unchained" and "BlacKkKlansman" from the 2000s which involve messages of empowerment. The genre became less popular in the 80s after it received criticisms for its "unpolished nature" and controversial themes heavily involving drugs and violence but has since then made a more popular comeback.

The late Chris Benoit was a former professional wrestler who worked for the WWE. During his career, Chris Benoit held 22 championships between the industry's top promotions and won the World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of Wrestlemania XX, the largest wrestling show at the time.
In June 2007, Chris Benoit murdered his wife, his son, and himself. A medical report of Chris Benoit's brain revealed he had suffered from depression and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). It was suggested that these resulted from numerous concussions Chris Benoit had sustained by performing moves that the WWE permitted him to do. Since then, WWE has removed, censored, and banned all mentions of Chris Benoit from their networks and media.

For the purpose of this debate, the concept of Divine Gift is the concept wherein God bestows a believer with faith and or sense of religiosity. Non believers are seen as people who were simply not bestowed with this gift, rather than individuals who actively or passively strayed from faith.

The "tests of God" refers to the belief that hardships and difficulties in life only exist to test one's spiritual and emotional strength

The literal meaning of Jihad is struggle or effort. Muslims use the word Jihad to describe three different kinds of struggle namely a believer's internal struggle to live out the Muslim faith as well as possible, the struggle to live as a good Muslim society and the struggle to defend Islam, with force if necessary. The term has been more infamously and commonly associated with Islamist fundamentalists, to refer to the instances of violent resistance and militaristic pursuits to defend the faith.

“Convenient Morality” refers to rationalising your actions and justifying decisions to retroactively fit into your code of beliefs, i.e., an individual adapting their beliefs and morals to the actions as opposed to accepting that certain actions transgress your chosen set of morals.

Benjamin Netanyahu was ousted from office by a coalition of rivals earlier this year, ending his 12-year run in power. Israel's new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, was sworn in after a vote of confidence with the narrow margin of 60 votes to 59. Bennett, the far right leader of Yamina party, will be prime minister until September 2023 as part of a power-sharing deal. He will then hand power over to Yair Lapid, head of the centrist Yesh Atid party, for a further two years. The administration is a mix of politicians from the left (Labor), the centre (Lapid), hardline Jewish religious nationalists, and a small Arab Islamist party.

Gulf States refer to Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Tigray is Ethiopia's northernmost region. Bordering Eritrea, it is home to most of the country's estimated 7 million ethnic Tigrayans. In November 2020, the regional government, controlled by the Tigray People's Liberation Front, launched a full-scale siege of a key Ethiopian military base. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a federal offensive against the region, setting off a conflict which has killed thousands of people - many of whom allegedly died as a result of indiscriminate shelling of cities in Tigray by Ethiopian forces, and has seen nearly 60,000 people fleeing to Sudan.

Fantasia is a world where everyone is equally happy, but nobody can become more happy or sad during their lifetime. On Earth, people are much happier or much sadder than others, but have the ability to become more happy or sad during their lifetime

The world is in ruin and has long been corrupted. You are the single parent of a young child who would be the only cure for a virus threatening to infect mankind with a rabid disease. Your child must be killed in order for the cure to be extracted and save the human race. The procedure requires your consent.

The term "Common prosperity" was first mentioned in the 1950s by Mao Zedong, founding leader of what was then an impoverished country. It was not used as frequently under Deng Xiaoping, who shifted the focus to developing an economy that would allow “some people to get rich first.” Xi Jin Ping made it a central part of his 2017 speech at the party congress to mark the start of his second term, and the messaging really took off in 2021. The slogan has since been adopted by state agencies and private companies as a way to signal their allegiance to this Communist Party priority. The push for common prosperity has encompassed policies ranging from curbing tax evasion and limits on the hours that tech sector employees can work to bans on for-profit tutoring in core school subjects and strict limits on the time minors can spend playing video games.

For the purpose of this debate you are a couple in their late 30s. You have always wanted to have children but have failed to conceive. You find out you can have a child who will be incredibly successful and happy in life due to your parenting; however upon reaching adulthood they would abandon you. This is the only child that you can have.

Recently the AUKUS pact was announced between the US, the UK and Australia which will see the US and UK send strategic and technical teams to Australia to help the country procure nuclear-powered submarines. It also meant that the Australian government cancelled a multi-billion contract for non-nuclear submarines with a French manufacturer.

The CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) is a free trade agreement signed in 2018 between 11 countries: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. The treaty was originally envisioned by the US as an economic bloc to counterbalance China’s growing power but the US pulled out in 2017. The CPTPP aims to create an integrated economic area by eliminating/reducing tariffs, liberalizing trade, opening each other's markets to foreign investment, etc. It has strict conditions for joining such as high liberalization requirements in service trade, high standards for intellectual property protections, high labor and environmental standards. Recently, both China and Taiwan have filed an application to join the CPTPP.

For the purposes of this debate, political moralism refers to the philosophy that moral standards (e.g. beliefs and virtues) should predominantly be used when judging political groups.

An ecosystem function is the capacity of natural processes and components to provide goods and services that satisfy human needs, either directly or indirectly (e.g., forests ,wetlands, coastlines etc.)

Rainbow capitalism is the targeted incorporation of the LGBTQ+ movement to capitalism, consumerism, and the market economy by corporations. Examples include, but are not limited to, LGBT-related products, designs, brands, and sponsorships.

For the purpose of this debate, digital currencies refer to a virtual format of a fiat currency for a particular nation or region. It is an electronic record or digital token of the official currency and is issued and regulated by its monetary authority, e.g., Digital Yuan in China and Digital Rupee in India.

A collateralized loan obligation (CLO) is a single security backed by a pool of debt. Collateralized loan obligations (CLO) are often backed by corporate loans with low credit ratings or loans taken out by private equity firms to conduct leveraged buyouts.

With a CLO, the investor receives scheduled debt payments from the underlying loans, assuming most of the risk in the event that borrowers default. In exchange for taking on the default risk, the investor is offered the potential for higher-than-average returns.

A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund in some countries, is any plan, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income. A public pension fund is one that is regulated under public sector law while a private pension fund is regulated under private sector law.

Carceral feminism is the advocacy for enhancing and increasing prison sentences that deal with feminist and gender issues. It is the belief that harsher and longer prison sentences will help work towards solving these issues.