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43395

Type

book

Titre

Cultural heritage and mass atrocities

Langues

Spanish / Arabic / Chinese / English / French / Russian

Auteurs

Cuno, James B. / Weiss, Thomas G. / Adams, Simon / Appiah, Kwame Anthony / Bandarin, Francesco / Bokova, Irina / Bowersock, Glen W. / Charlier, Benjamin / Chechi, Alessandro / Deknatel, Frederick / Dugan, Dexter W. / Eakin, Hugh / Eloundou Assomo, Lazare / Francioni, Francesco / Gerstenblith, Patty / Gowan, Richard / Harris, Rachel / MacGregor, Neil / Hassner, Ron E. / Margolies Beitler, Ruth / Montejo, Victor / Mustafayev, Tural / Parzinger, Hermann / Powderly, Joseph / Rai, Ashrutha / Renold, Marc-André / Al-Sabouni, Marwa / Sagan, Scott D. / Sands, Philippe / Schmidtke, Sabine / Serageldin, Ismail / Singh, Kavita / Slim, Hugo / Stein, Gil G. / Stone, Peter G. / Welsh, Jennifer M. / Wise, Paul H. / Schorlemer, Sabine von

Éditeurs

Cuno, James B. / Weiss, Thomas G.

Lieu de publication

Los Angeles

Pays de publication

United States

Maison d'édition

Getty Publications

Date

09/2022

Pages

619 p.

ISBN

978-1-60606-807-6 (print)
978-1-60606-808-3 (epub)
978-1-60606-809-0 (mobi)
978-1-60606-810-6 (PDF)

Mots-clés

destruction of cultural heritage / case studies / vulnerability / cultural identity / history / terrorism / reconstruction / ethics / protection of cultural heritage / built heritage / religious heritage / international law / international cooperation / history of conservation / philosophy of conservation / Eastern Europe / Near and Middle East / Central Asia / economic aspects / social aspects / legal protection / international conventions / human rights / war damage / displacement of population / war / peace / post-war situation / valuations / literature

Pays mentionnés

China / Guatemala / Iraq / Mali / Syrian Arab Republic / Yemen / Afghanistan / Sri Lanka

Monuments et sites

Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Bamiyan, Afghanistan
Aleppo, Syria
Homs, Syria
Timbuktu, Mali

N° Patrimoine mondial

21
119
208

Résumé en anglais

Intentional destruction of cultural heritage has a long history. Contemporary examples include the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, mosques in Xinjiang, China, mausoleums in Timbuktu, Mali, 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 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. Essays 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. The table of contents along with 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. [Publisher abstract]

Autres résumés

[Chapter abstracts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish attached to the reference.]

Ressource intégrale

yes

URL

https://www.getty.edu/publications/cultural-heritage-mass-atrocities/

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