Index. Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction : The geopolitical context of cultural heritage destruction / Carsten Paludan-Mu˜ller -- Part I. The value of cultural heritage -- 1. Preserving valuable objects and sites, in times of war and at other times / Derek Gillman -- 2. The "cultural turn" and the reconstruction of heritage / Helen Frowe and Derek Matravers -- 3. Mission impossible : weighing the protection of cultural property against human lives / Frederik Rosen -- 4. Weaponizing culture : a limited defense of the destruction of cultural heritage in war / Duncan MacIntosh -- 5. The concept of cultural genocide / Martin Hamilton -- Part II. Legal and security aspects of cultural heritage preservation -- 6. Combatting illicit trade in cultural objects to defend peace and security / Kristin Hausler and Andrzej Jakubowski -- 7. Cultural property protection in the context of counter terrorist financing : an emerging legal paradigm / Ricardo A. St. Hilaire -- 8. Non-party obligations for cultural property in armed conflict under the 1954 Hague Convention, Protocol II / Elizabeth Varner -- 9. The International Criminal Court and cultural property : what is the crime? / Giulia Bernabei and Mark A. Drumbl -- 10. Training for cultural property protection / Laurie W. Rush -- Part III . Healing the past : repatriation of stolen art and culture -- 11. Wartime loot in American museums : lessons from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Victoria Reed -- 12. Nazi-looting and internal and external colonial plundering : differences in responses / Jos van Beurden -- 13. Syrian and Iraqi opinion on protecting, promoting, and reconstructing heritage after the Islamic State / Benjamin Isakhan and James Barry -- 14. The geopolitical context of cultural heritage destruction / Carsten Paludan-Mu˜ller -- Index.
Summary:
"Cultural heritage has become increasingly "conflict prone". Today, systematic exploitation, manipulation, attacks, and destruction of cultural heritage by states and non-state actors form part of most violent conflicts across the world. Such acts are often intentional and based on well-planned strategies for inflicting harm on groups of people and communities. We have therefore progressed from seeing conflict-related destruction of cultural heritage just as a "cultural tragedy" to understanding it also as a "security issue." It is a shift from protecting cultural property from the harms of war for the sake of cultural property itself to viewing it as intricately connected to the broader peace and security agenda. Concerns about cultural heritage have migrated beyond the cultural sphere to sectors dealing with peace and security and dovetails with issue such the protection of civilians, the financing of terrorism, societal resilience, post-conflict reconciliation, hybrid warfare, and the geopolitics of territorial conflicts. This volume seeks to deepen our understanding of this evolving nexus between cultural heritage and security in the twenty-first century. It offers a collection of chapters that aims to open new horizons for thinking about the relationship between cultural heritage, security, and international law. Coming from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, the chapters examine a complicated set of relationships between, on the one hand, deliberate violence to cultural heritage in times of conflict, and, on the other, basic societal values, legal principles, protection, and security concerns"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Ethics, national security, and the rule of law series
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