User:Jergen/WOSM crisis

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Contents 1 Official Documents 2 In the news 3 Blogs, comments and discussions 4 Notes

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

Basic documents

• WOSM constitution (English)
• Resolutions of the 19th European Scout Conference (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 (Swedish)

[edit] In the news

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

[edit] Blogs, comments and discussions

Blogs

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

Comments

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

Discussions

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

[edit] Notes