Conflict, Conservation and Culture Heritage
The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict outlaws the willful damage or destruction of cultural heritage in war zones. This, and other legal instruments, make such damage or destruction a war crime. Such acts, potentially punishable by imprisonment, nonetheless seem to have become a more integrated and carefully orchestrated part of many armed conflicts, and legally binding treaties seem not to have had the deterring effe