Archaeology · Heritage, Conservation & Controversy

Heritage in Conflict Zones

A topic within Heritage, Conservation & Controversy, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.

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Report1954

Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

UNESCO

Written after the Second World War's destruction of monuments, it commits states to plan for the protection of cultural property before a conflict starts rather than after.

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Archaeology · Heritage, Conservation & Controversy

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Report1999

Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

UNESCO

Closes gaps in the original Hague Convention by creating a system of enhanced protection for the most important sites and defining individual criminal responsibility for deliberately targeting cultural property.

Archaeology · Heritage, Conservation & Controversy

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Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

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