Safeguarding cultural property and the 1954 Hague Convention : all possible steps / edited by Emma Cunliffe and Paul Fox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cunliffe, Emma (Emma Louise), editor.

Fox, Paul (Art historian), editor.

Series:

Heritage matters series.

Heritage matters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954 May 14).

Cultural property--Law and legislation.

Cultural property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2022.

Summary:

Significant attention today focusses on heritage destruction, but the key international laws prohibiting it - the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its First and Second Protocols (1954/1999) - lay out two core strands to limit the damage: the measures of respect for armed forces, and the safeguarding measures states parties should put in place in peacetime. This volume incorporates wide-ranging international perspectives from those in the academy, together with practitioner insights from the armed forces and heritage professionals, to explore the safeguarding regime. Its contributors consider such questions as whether state parties have truly taken "all possible steps", as the Convention tasks them; what we can learn from past practice, and how the Convention is implemented today; the implications of new trends in heritage law and management - such as the rise of the World Heritage Convention, and in the increasing focus on safe havens rather than refuges; whether new methods of heritage management such as Risk Assessment theory can be applied; and, in a Convention specifically focussed on state parties, what of their opponents, armed non-state actors. Topics range from leadership and the role of the State Party Representative, to the responsibilities of armed non-state groups in safeguarding, to explorations of past and current practice in different countries. Using a mix of case studies and theoretical explorations of new and existing methodologies, the contributions cover a broad timespan from World War II to today, with examples from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Overall, the volume's purpose is to promote wider understanding of the practical effectiveness of the Convention in the contemporary world, by investigating the perceived opportunities and constraints the Convention offers today to protect cultural property in armed conflict, and firmly establishing that such protection must begin in peace. CONTRIBUTORS: Maamoun Abdulkarim, Laura Albisetti, Pascal Bongard, Brittni Bradford, Rino Büchel, Emma Cunliffe, Philip Deans, Joanne Dingwall McCafferty, Paul Fox, Kristin Hausler, Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos, Nikolaus Paumgartner, Nigel Pollard, Lee Rotherham, Valentina Sabucco, Peter Stone, Raphael Zingg.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Preface: The Blue Shield and the Protection of the Worlds Cultural Property Preparing in Peace for Conflict

Part I: Safeguarding Reassessing the Field

1. All Possible Steps? Revisiting Safeguarding in the 1954 Hague Convention

Part II: Historical Perspectives

2. Centres Containing Monuments, Open Cities and Sanctuaries for Art: Super-refuges from the First World War to the 1954 Hague Convention

3. Protective Measures Before the 1954 Hague Convention: The Case of the Imperial War Museum, 19331950

Part III: Current Issues in Legal Implementation

4. Refuges, Safe Havens, and the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage

5. Safeguarding Measures and the Interplay between the 1954 Hague Convention, its 1999 Second Protocol, and the 1972 World Heritage Convention

6. The Role of Armed Non-State Actors in Safeguarding Cultural Heritage: Beyond Legal Obligations?

7. No Cultural Property Protection Without Leadership: The Organisation of Control in the 1954 Hague Convention

Part IV: The Hague Convention in Practice Today: Tools and Approaches

8. The Safeguarding Measures of the 1954 Hague Convention from a Risk Management Approach

9. Emerging Considerations for the UKs Domestic Implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention to Protect Museums and their Cultural Property Collections in the Event of Armed Conflict

10. International Heritage Interventions as No Substitute for Capable State Party Heritage Institutions: The Case of the Carabinieri TPC Intervention in the 2003 Iraq War

11. Safeguarding and the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property: The Syrian Example

12. Cultural Property Shelter Systems: The Swiss Model

13. The Lone and Level Sands Stretch Far Away. The 54 Convention in situ: Perspectives from an Accidental Practitioner

Appendices

1. The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict with Regulations for the Execution of the Convention 1954

2. Regulations for the Execution of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

3. Resolutions of the 1954 Hague Conference

4. Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict 1999

5. Additional Protocols (1977) to the Geneva Conventions (1949) (Extracts)

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-80010-428-6

1-80010-427-8

OCLC:

1285170876