User:Jergen/WOSM crisis

Official Documents

Documents on the institutional crisis within the World Organization of the Scout Movement in October/November 2007

• 2007-10-15: Open letter (original version)
  World Scout Committee, signed by Austria, Bangladesh, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Sweden, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, UK, USA ^[2]
  (in English)
• 2007-10-16: Letter of the World Scout Foundation^[1] to the World Scout Committee on the cancellation of payments (in English)
• 2007-10-17: Letter of the Boy Scouts of America^[1] to the World Scout Committee on the cancellation of payments (in English)
• 2007-10-20: Letter of the Svenska Scoutrådet^[1] to the Chairman of the World Scout Committee on the cancellation of payments (in English)
• 2007-10-24: Answer to the open letter^[1] adopted by WCS but not sent out (in English and French);
• Statement of the Svenska Scoutrådet (in Swedish)
• 2007-11-02: WOSM-Circular 33/07 (in English); French version (in French)
• 2007-11-07: Statement of the Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo (in Italian)
• 2007-11-09: Statement of Scoutisme Français (in French); English translation (in English)
• 2007-11-09: Manifesto for the unity of World Scouting^[1] by the NSOs of Belgium, Italy and Spain (in English)
• 2007-11-11 (at the latest): Letter of support to Eduardo Missoni by the Scouts de Bolivia (in Spanish)
• 2007-11-12: speech^[1] of the Secretary General at the WSC meeting in Cairo.(in English and French)
• 2007-11-12: Semi-official statement of the Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände (in German)^[3]
• 2007-11-13: Dismissal of Eduardo Missoni (letter to the staff of the WSB) (in English)
• 2007-11-14: WOSM Circular 34/07 including the resolution of the WSC during its extraordinary meeting on November 12, 2007 (in English); French version (in French)
• 2007-11-15: (Internal) communique by the Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (in German); a similar document was published by the Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg (in German)
• 2007-11-15: Communique by the Speidernes fellesorganisasjon (in Bokmål)
• 2007-11-18: Letter^[1] of the Secretary General to the WSC chairman disagreeng on the terms of circular 34/07 (in English)
• 2007-11-21: Second communique^[1] of the Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo (in Italian)
• 2007-11-22: Message of Eduardo Missoni^[1] to the members of the Interamerican Scout Conference (in English)
• 2007-11-25: Message^[1] of the Secretary General to the Interamerican Scout Conference after he was requested not to attend it. (in Spanish)
• 2007-11-30: Communique of Suomen Partiolaiset (in Finnish)
• 2007-12-01: WOSM press release announcing Luc Panissod as Acting Secretary General. (in English)
• 2007-12-19: WOSM circular 39/2007 describing work being done on governance, and convenes a meeting in Paris for february 15-17, 2008, to prepare the World Conference (in English); French version (in French)
• 2007-12-xx: WOSM circular 40/2007 introducing the accounts and balance sheets for 2006, explaining the reasons for the delay (in English); French version (in French)
• 2008-01-xx: WOSM Circular 1/2008 Governance Review Task Force: Report to World Scout Committee (in English); French version (not authorative) (in French)
• 2008-02-29: Herman Hui resigns as Chairman of the WSC (in English); French version (in French)
• 2008-04-07: Response to 'Open Letter to Members of the World Scout Committee' (in English); French version (in French)

Basic documents

• WOSM constitution (in English)
• Resolutions of the 19th European Scout Conference (in English); the Swedish statement refers to resolution 12/2007

Background documents

• Verksamhetsrapporter 2007 (Activity reports 2007) of the Svenska Scoutrådet, showing a growing insatisfaction with WOSM's governance (in Swedish)

In the news

• 2007-10-15: Private email by the
  Austrian
  International Commissioner to some NSOs, explaining the real reasons of the Pattaya group (in English and German)
• 2007-11-16: Article published in the newspaper Corriere della Sera (in Italian)
• 2007-11-17: Article published in the magazine Vita non profit magazine (in Italian)
• 2007-12-03: Crise à la tête du scoutisme mondial: un ex-dirigeant accuse les Scouts américains by AFP (in French)

Webpages, blogs, comments and discussions

Webpages

• Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo: La situazione Wosm mainly (in Italian); provides 4 statements of FIS as well as most of the relevant documents (including the open letters)

Blogs

• Scouts x la OMMS, including internal documents and comments (in Spanish)
• Save Scouting, including a chronology, documents and comments (in English and French)
• Eduardo Missoni's Blog
• Sergio Fiorenza's personal blog with news on the Paris meeting of all NSOs. (in Italian)

Comments

• Open letter of the Asociación Peruana de Escultismo (a non-WOSM Scout association) (in Spanish)
• Comment from scoutchile.tk (in Spanish)
• Comment from blog.filosof.biz (in Czech)
• Le Web 2.0 entre à plein dans la politique scoute comments the coverage of the crisis (in French)
• short blog comment on the crisis (in English)
• Dr. Missoni's personal homepage with a few lines about his dismissal. Interesting information, however, was removed (in English and Italian)

Discussions

• Discussion on pfadfindertreffpunkt.de (in German)
• Discussion on scouter.com (in English)
• Discussion on scout.se (in Swedish)
• Discussion on tabou.be (in French)
• Discussion on agesci.org (in Italian) registered users only
• Discussion on the MASCI (in Italian) Newsgroup on ScoutNet.org
• Discussion on latoilescoute.net (in French)
• Discussion on larocadelconsejo.net (in Spanish)
• Discussion on skaut.cz (in Czech)
• Discussion on kfuk-kfum-speiderne.no (in Bokmål)
• Discussion on uk.rec.scouting (in English)
• Discussion on scoutingforum.nl (in Dutch)
• Discussion on parati.fraternite.net (in French)

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