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The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War

The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War

Author: Claire Finkelstein; Derek Gillman; Frederik Rosén
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197610565
Published In: December 2022
Format: Hardback
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Conflict over cultural heritage has increasingly become a standard part of war. Today, systematic exploitation, manipulation, attacks, and destruction of cultural heritage by state 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.

With this increasing awareness of the role cultural heritage plays in war, scholars and practitioners have progressed from seeing conflict-related destruction of cultural heritage as a cultural tragedy to understanding it as a vital national security issue. There is also a shift from the desire to protect cultural property for its own sake to viewing its protection as connected to broader agendas of peace and security. Concerns about cultural heritage have thus migrated beyond the cultural sphere to worries about 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 public understanding of the evolving nexus between cultural heritage and security in the twenty-first century.

Drawing on a variety of disciplines and perspectives, the chapters in this volume examine a complex set of relationships between the deliberate destruction and misuse of cultural heritage in times of conflict, on the one hand, and basic societal values, legal principles, and national security, on the other.

Preface by Claire Finkelstein

Acknowledgments

Contributors

List of Abbreviations

List of Cases

List of Treaties, Resolutions, and Other Relevant Documents

Introduction: Cultural Heritage and Violent Conflicts: Between Law and Security

Frederik Rosén

PART I: The Value of Cultural Heritage

Chapter 1. Preserving Valuable Objects and Sites, in Times of War and at Other Times

Derek Gillman

Chapter 2. The "Cultural Turn" and the Reconstruction of Heritage

Helen Frowe and Derek Matravers

Chapter 3. Mission Impossible: The Laws of Armed Conflict and Weighing Cultural Property Against Human Lives

Frederik Rosén

Chapter 4. Weaponizing Culture: A Limited Defense of the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in War

Duncan MacIntosh

Chapter 5. The Concept of Cultural Genocide

Martin Hamilton

PART II: Legal and Security Aspects of Cultural Heritage Preservation

Chapter 6. Combatting Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects to Defend Peace and Security

Kristin Hausler and Andrzej Jakubowski

Chapter 7. Cultural Property Protection in the Context of Counter-Terrorist Financing: An Emerging Legal Paradigm in the United States

Ricardo A. St. Hilaire

Chapter 8. Non-Party Obligations Underlying the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Protocol II

Elizabeth Varner

Chapter 9. The International Criminal Court and Cultural Property: What is the Crime?

Mark A. Drumbl

Chapter 10. Training for Cultural Property Protection

Laurie W. Rush

PART III: Healing the Past: Repatriation of Stolen Art and Culture

Chapter 11. Wartime Loot in American Museums: Lessons from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Victoria Reed

Chapter 12. Nazi-Looting and Internal and External Colonial Plundering: Differences in Responses

Jos van Beurden

Chapter 13. Syrian and Iraqi Opinion on Protecting, Promoting and Reconstructing Heritage after the Islamic State

Benjamin Isakhan and James Barry