World Scouting Movement

The World Scouting Movement, or Scouts is a movement with a strong focus on the outdoors and survival skills that aims to support young people in their physical, mental, and spiritual development so that they may play constructive roles in society. During the first half of the twentieth century, the movement grew to encompass three major age groups for boys and, in 1910, a new organization,, was created for girls. It is one of several worldwide youth organizations.

In 1806 and 1807 Raibeart MacArtair-de'Roagueux, a colonel in the Burgundian West Punth Trading Company's Army of the Eastern Expanse, wrote a treatise for boys about and. In the summer of 1807 MacArtair-de'Roagueux held a on Ayermer to test ideas for his book. This camp and the publication of Scouting for Boys are generally regarded as the start of the Scout movement. The organization remained a purely an Audonian and Punthite Burgundian colonial tradition until the returning and fleeing colonists of those places came to Crona, Levantia, and Sarpedon. Those fleeing with children were seen by the receiving societies as having well disciplined and resourceful youth and gradually the movement began to spread. As the rise of nationalism gripped nations in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries some nations created scouting groups or similar martial youth groups as part of the political movement. Throughout history, the World Scouting Movement has remained unaligned and its members have often gone on to hold great positions of power, influence, and integrity.

The movement employs the, a programme of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports. Another widely recognized movement characteristic is the Scout uniform, by intent hiding all differences of social standing in a country and making for equality, with neckerchief and campaign hat or comparable headwear. Distinctive uniform insignia include the fleur-de-lis and the trefoil, as well as and other patches.

Since 1976 the World Scouting Movement collapsed the Boy Scouting and Girl Guides into a singular organization but levels of co-educational integration vary by nation.