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)^[1], 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 ^[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)

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Hot linking on this host is disabled, access is possible via the chronology
^ The revised version dates of October 19; the original was dated october 15, and was only signed by Austria, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, Sweden, Thailand, UK, USA. Japan withdrew its signature since.
^ Entry #3: Ute Theisen is chairwoman of the DPSG, one of the member organizations of the RdP; she reports that the RdP sent a letter to WOSM requesting a statement on the allegations in the open letter and stating that non-payment of fees and grants is no adequate mean on solving such issues.

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[2] The revised version dates of October 19; the original was dated october 15, and was only signed by Austria, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, Sweden, Thailand, UK, USA. Japan withdrew its signature since.

[3] Entry #3: Ute Theisen is chairwoman of the DPSG, one of the member organizations of the RdP; she reports that the RdP sent a letter to WOSM requesting a statement on the allegations in the open letter and stating that non-payment of fees and grants is no adequate mean on solving such issues.

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