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 Official police papers  

2001 Police extradition case - summary

2001 Police extradition case - full document in English (PDF)

Independent reports  

MA Thesis on Tvind (City University, London, 1994)

Norwegian journalist Leiv Gunnar Lie spent six months researching Tvind at City University, London. This is an authoritative but really scary account of starry-eyed teenagers hitch-hiking through the bush, strange financial dealings, a shipwreck, and dogma-driven adults. A good introduction. (English).

 

'Concerning Tvind': report by Steen Thomsen (1998) - English (PDF) and Danish (PDF)

Steen Thomsen, a teacher, joined the Tvind Teachers Group after studying with Amdi Petersen in Denmark in the 1970s. For 26 years he worked unquestioningly for the TG, following every instruction - including an order to burn family photograph albums and cut himself off from relatives. He turned over most of his income and family property to Tvind. He eventually became headmaster of a Tvind school in the UK, Winestead Hall, but after official investigations, the school was suddenly closed in 1998. (It later reopened as CICD) Thomsen resigned, returned to Denmark. and wrote a report to the Danish government 'Concerning Tvind', that accuses Amdi Petersen of running a cult. 

 

The Valdelin Report on UFF Sweden (1990) (To come)

 

Formal complaint to the Massachusetts Attorney General by the 1990-1 Central America Team at IICD Massachusetts

 

A report by the EEC (1986)

The EC studied DAPP's projects in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.  It found there was lots of enthusiasm but concluded, among other things, that DAPP was fostering 'dependency' on the part of local people, instead of handing over control of the projects.    The EEC and EU have not knowingly funded DAPP projects since.

 

Selected media stories  

Investigation into Tvind in Britain and Denmark (The Guardian, London, June 1993 - seven parts)

The Teachers Group secretly buys land in Central America (Ekstra Bladet, Denmark, Sept 1996)

Amdi Petersen's secret hideaway in Miami revealed (Jyllands-Posten, Denmark, Oct 2001)

The Green Bins of Gaia, Chicago (The Chicago Tribune, USA, Feb 2004 - two parts)

>>>>Comprehensive database of newspaper articles 1985-2006

 

 Statements direct to us  

A former IICD volunteer from Chicago - 'Lars's story

A British ex-volunteer - James's story

A Dutch ex-Tvind Teacher - Patricia Brunklaus

Alleged money laundering from Africa - Britta Junge's story

>>>More than 30 other stories

Books 

The Master from Tvind by Frede Farmand (March 2003)

The Travellers by Hans la Cour (Sept 2002)

On the Road to Victory: The story of the School Co-operation Tvind and its creator Mogens Amdi Petersen by Jes Fabricius Møller

The Psycho-Cults: How the Soul-Catchers Work by Frank Nordhausen and Liane von Billerbeck (1999) - chapter on Tvind.

Berlin journalists Frank Nordhausen and Liane von Billerbeck investigate 'psycho-cults', with a chapter about Tvind worldwide. They concluded Tvind was a cult. The opening section on a visit to Tropical Produce Ltd, Tvind's plantation in Belize, has been translated into English on this site.

 

How to Live Your dream of Volunteering Overseas by Joseph Collins, Stefano DeZerega and Zahara Heckscher (Penguin, USA) - entry on IICD

More Dying Flowers - a critical anthology on Tvind by 21 former Tvind Teachers (1980)

Tvind from the Inside by Britta Rasmussen

Mind Control by Frank Bornakke (no onger available)

 

Other material  

'Humana Experience' by Gail Lawrence (website)

A young Scottish woman's experience of Humana http://www.geocities.com/humana_experience/index.html

Memo from Neils Peter Holst on money laundering (1995)

Tvind volunteers' fundraising instructions

'About Tvind' (To come)

A brief but to- the-point summary of Tvind circulating on the Internet and among journalists.  This anonymous memo is quite old, probably dating from the early 1980s, but has a ring of authenticity.

Tvind-Humana: controversial reform education and fake companies   (Source: Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen (Evangelical Centre for World Contemplative Issues).)

The Tvind-Humana business is a non-transparant, worldwide-active company, which should be considered as a commercial cult.    It operates under the cover-up of different organisations, firms and foundations which officially carry out prosperity- and development aid. Best known is the chain for second hand clothes ‘Humana’, of which the headquarters are located in Zimbabwe and which has a big number of  branches in Europe.

Controversial groups in Belgium and Holland (to come)

"De groep/sekte met als hoofdzetel Denemarken heeft tal van vertakkingen oa. Tvind,..." (Dutch) from the Internet.