The roundtable debate “Supranational bodies: shared duties or avoiding of responsibility”
The roundtable debate as a clearly structured and specially organized public exchange of views between two and more sides on a very topical for the EU issue took place in framework of the project implementation. The debates are popular in politics and widely used in conflict resolution. In this kind of public discussion the participants were trying to reach consensus providing profitable for them arguments to persuade others. The duty of each team was determined in advance and within certain time limit they should represent their facts, “pros” and “cons”. The game was evaluated by a panel of judges.
The aspiration is that the roundtable debates helped the participants (the graduate students) to enhance critical thinking, to form their skills of reasoning and adaptation to active participation in the life of community, society and state. The goal to solve the dilemma but not to lead to the conflict made participants stay restricted, diplomatic, concentrated and rigorous. The project team estimate it to be very practically oriented activity for future decision-makers and authorities at highest administrative level.
