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


 * Basic documents:
 * WOSM constitution
 * Resolutions of the 19th European Scout Conference ; 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 the news

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

Webpages, blogs, comments and discussions

 * Webpages:
 * Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo: La situazione Wosm mainly ; 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
 * Save Scouting, including a chronology, documents and comments
 * Eduardo Missoni's Blog
 * Sergio Fiorenza's personal blog with news on the Paris meeting of all NSOs.


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


 * Discussions:
 * Discussion on pfadfindertreffpunkt.de
 * Discussion on scouter.com
 * Discussion on scout.se
 * Discussion on tabou.be
 * Discussion on agesci.org registered users only
 * Discussion on the MASCI Newsgroup on ScoutNet.org
 * Discussion on latoilescoute.net
 * Discussion on larocadelconsejo.net
 * Discussion on skaut.cz
 * Discussion on kfuk-kfum-speiderne.no
 * Discussion on uk.rec.scouting
 * Discussion on scoutingforum.nl
 * Discussion on parati.fraternite.net