Towards a Generic Global Issue Statement: Template

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Introduction

As explained in a separate document (Towards a Generic Global Issue Statement: evoking an instructive pattern of unquestionable responses, 2009), this is the source text for an experiment in deriving a generic template for the articulation of controversial issues.

The text which follows is the statement by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on the occasion of the UN Durban Review Conference on Racism and Racial Discrimination (Geneva, 21 April 2009). Terms in the contents of that statement, as detailed in the The statement below is therefore the original with the terms, controversial or otherwise, colour coded.

In the subsequent phase of the experiment, those colour coded terms have been replaced by generic terms -- identified as the headers below. A separate "generic" version of this document presents the statement with those generic terms only. Potentially, in an interactive mode, this would then allow users to select preferred terms -- notably for problematic issues other than racism. The document could then be "refreshed" with the terms selected by the user. This phase has not yet been activated -- although the colour coded version below indicates how it might appear for one such set of choices.

Any reservations regarding this methodology are provided in the separate explanation. This includes comments on the source document for this experiment, namely the statement by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.

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