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Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities (Paperback)
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Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities (Paperback)
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A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural
heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international
efforts to protect people and cultures. Intentional destruction of
cultural heritage has a long history. Contemporary examples include
the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, mosques in Xinjiang, mausoleums
in Timbuktu, and Greco-Roman remains in Syria. Cultural heritage
destruction invariably accompanies assaults on civilians, making
heritage attacks impossible to disentangle from the mass atrocities
of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic
cleansing. Both seek to eliminate people and the heritage with
which they identify. Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities
assembles essays by thirty-eight experts from the heritage, social
science, humanitarian, legal, and military communities. Focusing on
immovable cultural heritage vulnerable to attack, the volume's
guiding framework is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), a United
Nations resolution adopted unanimously in 2005 to permit
international intervention against crimes of war or genocide. Based
on the three pillars of prevent, react, and rebuild, R2P offers
today's policymakers a set of existing laws and international norms
that can and--as this book argues--must be extended to the
protection of cultural heritage. Contributions consider the global
value of cultural heritage and document recent attacks on people
and sites in China, Guatemala, Iraq, Mali, Sri Lanka and
Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen. Comprehensive sections on vulnerable
populations as well as the role of international law and the
military offer readers critical insights and point toward research,
policy, and action agendas to protect both people and cultural
heritage. A concise abstract of each chapter is offered online in
Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish to facilitate robust,
global dissemination of the strategies and tactics offered in this
pathbreaking call to action. The free online edition of this
publication is available at
getty.edu/publications/cultural-heritage-mass-atrocities. Also
available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the
book.
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