New Unesco publication: protecting cultural property

Our collaborator, Peter Larsen, senior lecturer and researcher, took part in the UNESCO and Swiss Confederation International Conference on the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Second Protocol of the 1954 Hague Convention. His intervention culminated in the publication of an article entitled "Modern conflict, emergencies and cultural heritage: exploring the relevance of cultural rights" available both in French and English as part of proceedings from the conference. 

Matters of cultural identity, heritage and practices are often at the heart of modern conflict and emergency patterns. If we recognize this, it triggers questions such as: how threats to cultural heritage and cultural property may intensify or shift under armed conflict? How to safeguard cultural property in the short-term maximizing what can be done under complex emergency contexts? How to connect the dots between cultural property and heritage protection and the centrality of identity politics and heritage from the perspective of social cohesion, peace building and cultural rights? Those questions, and in particular the last one are at the core of Peter Larsen's research and of this specific article. 

To consult this contribution in English click here and in French here.