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The Protection of Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict - The Changing Paradigms (Hardcover)
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The Protection of Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict - The Changing Paradigms (Hardcover)
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This book analyses the current legal framework seeking to protect
cultural heritage during armed conflict and discusses proposed and
emerging paradigms for its better protection. Cultural heritage has
always been a victim of conflict, with monuments and artefacts
frequently destroyed as collateral damage in wars throughout
history. In addition, works of art have been viewed as booty by
victors and stolen in the aftermath of conflict. However,
deliberate destruction of cultural sites and items has also
occurred, and the Intentional destruction of cultural heritage has
been a hallmark of recent conflicts in the Middle East and North
Africa, where we have witnessed unprecedented, systematic attacks
on culture as a weapon of war. In Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and
Mali, extremist groups such as ISIS and Ansar Dine have committed
numerous acts of iconoclasm, deliberately destroying heritage
sites, and looting valuable artefacts symbolic of minority
cultures. This study explores how the international law framework
can be fully utilised in order to tackle the destruction of
cultural heritage, and analyses various paradigms which have
recently been suggested for its better protection, including the
Responsibility to Protect paradigm and the peace and security
paradigm. This volume will be an essential resource for scholars
and practitioners in the areas of public international law,
especially international humanitarian law and cultural heritage
law.
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