Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced now with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late … We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: Too late.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

The CIMB Group World Universities Peace Invitational Debate is a unique debating opportunity that any eligible university should be anxious to attend. It provide a unique opportunity for competition, acting as a veritable “tournament of champions” as well as featuring a unique theme that the debating community should embrace more, “peace”.

There are a number of elite universities that are eligible to attend CIMB WUPID. Most of them get a chance to debate against a few other elite university from time to time at tournaments in their region, or every year they might have a chance to debate some of them at the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC). But these opportunities are rare and punctuated by debates against other fine teams that are not among the global elite. At CIMB WUPID however, debate after debate will be against the finest teams in the world, and the elimination rounds should be some of the finest debates anywhere in the world.

Each round will consist an incredibly impressive foursome of debate teams. Such an event will only happen in the later elimination rounds of WUDC. This will be a unique opportunity to debate the best and become even better in the process.