This chapter provides a personal reflection on salient debates on the meaning of whistleblowing. My reflection is based on participating between 2018 and 2023 in multi-stakeholder forums where whistleblowing was discussed: reporting mechanisms in sport hosted by the International Olympic Committee and UNODC, several anti-corruption projects funded by the Council of Europe, the working groups that developed the international standard on handling whistleblowing reports ISO37002:2021 Whistleblowing Management Systems Guidelines, and a tripartite technical meeting at the ILO. The chapter argues that salient topics in current debates revolve around who counts as whistleblower. Specific debates commented on in this chapter include: journalists as whistleblowers, organizations as whistleblowers, non-worker whistleblowers, role-prescribed reporting as whistleblowing, and pre-whistleblowing whistleblowing.

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Who Is a Whistleblower? Current Debates in Multi-stakeholder Forums on Stretching the Concept

  • Wim Vandekerckhove

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This chapter provides a personal reflection on salient debates on the meaning of whistleblowing. My reflection is based on participating between 2018 and 2023 in multi-stakeholder forums where whistleblowing was discussed: reporting mechanisms in sport hosted by the International Olympic Committee and UNODC, several anti-corruption projects funded by the Council of Europe, the working groups that developed the international standard on handling whistleblowing reports ISO37002:2021 Whistleblowing Management Systems Guidelines, and a tripartite technical meeting at the ILO. The chapter argues that salient topics in current debates revolve around who counts as whistleblower. Specific debates commented on in this chapter include: journalists as whistleblowers, organizations as whistleblowers, non-worker whistleblowers, role-prescribed reporting as whistleblowing, and pre-whistleblowing whistleblowing.