Overview
- Provides a comprehensive legal analysis of UNESCO's responsibility to protect heritage during conflict
- Includes comparative case study of changes in UNESCO’s engagement in Yemen, Syria and Iraq
- Discusses UNESCO’s political and financial limitations when it comes to heritage protection
Part of the book series: Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market (SAHLM, volume 8)
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This book aims to determine UNESCO's capability to facilitate heritage protection measures pre-conflict, emergency response measures during conflict and reconstruction efforts post-conflict. The book employs document analysis to ascertain UNESCO's legal obligations when it comes to facilitating cultural heritage protection in its Member States' territories in the condition of armed conflict, while drawing comparisons with the reality of the organisation's presence and involvement in Yemen, Syria and Iraq. This study maps shifts in UNESCO's level of communication with each country's respective government and civil authorities; allocation of financial, human and material resources; and implementation of heritage safeguarding and reconstruction initiatives. Both quantitative and qualitative data shows UNESCO to exhibit great inequity in engagement, at times, closing communications entirely with Syria, due to the political standpoints of other UNESCO Member States. This politicalgridlock is often shown to result in the organisation overstating its ability to safeguard or restore heritage, with promises not being followed up with action.
Since 2015, UNESCO has expressed a stronger intent to be a key player in heritage protection during armed conflict, however as long as cultural heritage protection is not considered a humanitarian concern, UNESCO will not be able to circumvent much of the political and bureaucratic barriers facing intergovernmental organisations during conflict, which prevent emergency action from being implemented. In order to ensure heritage safeguarding is permitted during periods of significant unrest, regardless of political discord, it is crucial that UNESCO promote a people-centred approach to its cultural heritage protection initiatives. This book evidences that focusing on livelihoods and meaningful and practical connections between populations and their local heritage to be UNESCO's optimal methodological approach forjustifying cultural heritage protection as a humanitarian necessity.
The book's readership includes academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of political science, law and heritage studies.
Since 2015, UNESCO has expressed a stronger intent to be a key player in heritage protection during armed conflict, however as long as cultural heritage protection is not considered a humanitarian concern, UNESCO will not be able to circumvent much of the political and bureaucratic barriers facing intergovernmental organisations during conflict, which prevent emergency action from being implemented. In order to ensure heritage safeguarding is permitted during periods of significant unrest, regardless of political discord, it is crucial that UNESCO promote a people-centred approach to its cultural heritage protection initiatives. This book evidences that focusing on livelihoods and meaningful and practical connections between populations and their local heritage to be UNESCO's optimal methodological approach forjustifying cultural heritage protection as a humanitarian necessity.
The book's readership includes academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of political science, law and heritage studies.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Joanne Dingwall McCafferty is an Affiliate with the University of Copenhagen, where between February 2019 and January 2022, she was a PhD Fellow researching the role of UNESCO in the protection of cultural heritage during armed conflict in Yemen, Syria and Iraq, and also held the position of Research Assistant. Joanne has worked with the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative in Washington DC, designed and delivered various courses and workshops on Heritage Protection in Urban Conflicts and has assumed the role of academic advisor at meetings with NATO HQ, the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO, and various UNESCO Delegations.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: UNESCO, Cultural Heritage and Conflict in Yemen, Syria and Iraq
Authors: Joanne Dingwall McCafferty
Series Title: Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19675-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19674-4Published: 19 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19677-5Published: 20 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19675-1Published: 18 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-7425
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7433
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 269
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Public International Law , Cultural Heritage, Human Rights, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, International Relations