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Safeguarding Cultural Property and the 1954 Hague Convention

All Possible Steps
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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The role of the Hague Convention in today's world revisited.

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.

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Contributor: Emma Cunliffe EMMA CUNLIFFE is a Research Associate in the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University, UK, the Secretariat for the international NGO the Blue Shield, and the Secretary for UK Blue Shield. --- Contributor: Paul Fox PAUL FOX served in the British Army for 27 years before obtaining his PhD from UCL, and working as the Principal Research Associate in the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University, UK, and as the Secretariat for the international NGO the Blue Shield. He retired in 2020. --- Contributor: Emma Cunliffe EMMA CUNLIFFE is a Research Associate in the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University, UK, the Secretariat for the international NGO the Blue Shield, and the Secretary for UK Blue Shield. --- Contributor: Paul Fox PAUL FOX served in the British Army for 27 years before obtaining his PhD from UCL, and working as the Principal Research Associate in the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University, UK, and as the Secretariat for the international NGO the Blue Shield. He retired in 2020.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Illustrations

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    List of Contributors

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    Acknowledgements

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    List of Abbreviations

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    Preface: The Blue Shield and the Protection of the World’s Cultural Property – Preparing in Peace for Conflict

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  • Part I: Safeguarding – Reassessing the Field
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    1. All Possible Steps? Revisiting Safeguarding in the 1954 Hague Convention

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    Emma Cunliffe and Paul Fox
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  • Part II: Historical Perspectives
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    2. Centres Containing Monuments, Open Cities and Sanctuaries for Art: ‘Super-refuges’ from the First World War to the 1954 Hague Convention

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    Nigel Pollard
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    3. Protective Measures Before the 1954 Hague Convention: The Case of the Imperial War Museum, 1933–1950

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    Philip W. Deans
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  • Part III: Current Issues in Legal Implementation
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    4. Refuges, Safe Havens, and the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage

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    Nikolaus Thaddäus Paumgartner and Raphael Zingg
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    5. Safeguarding Measures and the Interplay between the 1954 Hague Convention, its 1999 Second Protocol, and the 1972 World Heritage Convention

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

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    Kristin Hausler and Pascal Bongard
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    7. No Cultural Property Protection Without Leadership: The Organisation of Control in the 1954 Hague Convention

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    Paul Fox
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  • Part IV: The Hague Convention in Practice Today: Tools and Approaches
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    8. The Safeguarding Measures of the 1954 Hague Convention from a Risk Management Approach

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

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    Brittni Bradford
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    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

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

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    Maamoun Abdulkarim and Emma Cunliffe
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    12. Cultural Property Shelter Systems: The Swiss Model

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    Laura Albisetti and Rino Büchel
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    13. ‘The Lone and Level Sands Stretch Far Away’. The ’54 Convention in situ: Perspectives from an Accidental Practitioner

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    Lee Rotherham
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  • Appendices
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    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

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

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    3. Resolutions of the 1954 Hague Conference

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

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

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    Index

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9781800104273
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Boydell Press
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Keywords for this book
Cultural Heritage; Hague Convention; Armed Conflict; Protection; International Law; Cultural Property; Safeguarding; History; Cultural Destruction
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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