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The preservation of art and culture in times of war /

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This book seeks to deepen our understanding of the 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. Comi...

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Main Author: Finkelstein, Claire Oakes (Author)
Other Authors: Gillman, Derek (Editor), Rosén, Frederik (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Ethics, national security, and the rule of law series.
Subjects:
Cultural property > Protection (International law)
War (International law)
Patrimoine culturel > Protection (Droit international)
Guerre (Droit international)
International.
LAW.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : cultural heritage and armed conflict : preserving art while protecting life / Frederik Rosén
  • Preserving valuable objects and sites, in times of war and at other times / Derek Gillman
  • The "cultural turn" and the reconstruction of heritage / Helen Frowe and Derek Matravers
  • Mission impossible : weighing the protection of cultural property against human lives / Frederik Rosén
  • Weaponizing culture : a limited defense of the destruction of cultural heritage in war / Duncan Macintosh
  • The concept of cultural genocide / Martin Hamilton
  • Combatting illicit trade in cultural objects to defend peace and security/ Kristin Hausler and Andrzej Jakubowski
  • Cultural property protection in the context of counter-terrorist financing : an emerging legal paradigm in the United States / Ricardo A. St. Hilaire
  • Non-party obligations underlying the 1954 Hague Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict, Protocol II / Elizabeth Varner
  • The International Criminal Court and cultural property : what is the crime? / Giulia Bernabei and Mark A. Drumbl
  • Training for cultural property protection / Laurie W. Rush
  • Wartime loot in American museums : lessons from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Victoria Reed
  • Nazi-looting and internal and external colonial plundering : differences in responses / Jos van Beurden
  • Syrian and Iraqi opinion on protecting, promoting and reconstructing heritage after the Islamic State / Benjamin Isakhan and James Barry
  • The geopolitical context of cultural heritage destruction / Carsten Paludan-Müller.