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Towards a human-rights approach to cultural heritage protection

Mónica Palmero Fernández The concept of cultural heritage and its value is constantly evolving. One can trace its origins to European...

Killing for culture: Responding to cultural heritage destruction as a security threat

Rory Cox Cultural heritage can be broadly conceived – movable and immovable property, the human and the natural landscape, tangible and...

The challenges of protecting cultural heritage in armed conflict

Emma Cunliffe, Paul Fox and Peter Stone The looting and destruction of cultural heritage has been a feature of armed conflict for almost...

Saving lives or saving stones? Two sides of the same coin?

Erich Hatala Matthes When Daesh began blowing up ruins at the ancient city of Palmyra, Western news outlets couldn’t get enough of it....