Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Deliberate destruction of cultural heritage - Bamiyan Buddha statue destruction and its revitalization (Masanori Nagaoka).- Part II: An overall review of the emergency interventions at the Bamiyan World Heritage Property implemented from 2003 to 2017.- Chapter 2. Safeguarding the Buddha Statues in Bamiyan and the Sustainable Protection of Afghan Cultural Heritage (Mounir Bouchenaki).- Chapter 3. Safeguarding and Preservation Activities at the Giant Buddhas and other monuments in the Bamiyan Valley 2004 - 2017 (Bert Praxenthaler and Matthias Beck).- Chapter 4. Cultural identity and the revival of values after the demolishment of Bamiyan's Buddhist wall paintings (Yoko Taniguchi).- Chapter 5. The Cultural Masterplan Bamiyan: the sustainable dilemma of protection and progress (Michael Jansen and Georgios Toubekis).- Part III: Deliberate destruction of heritage and its recovery.- Chapter 6. World Heritage and reconstruction - an overview and lessons learnt for the Bamiyan Valley (Mechtild Rössler).- Chapter 7. Palmyra: from War & Destruction to Rehabilitation (Maamoun Abdulkarim).- Chapter 8. Role of the Traditional Masonry Corporation in the Process of Reconstruction of the Destroyed Mausoleums in Timbuktu, Mali (Lassana Cisse).- Chapter 9. Attitudes to the Reconstruction of Synagogues - Post World War II Europe (Michael Turner).- Part IV: Heritage reconstruction in theory.- Chapter 10. Destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage as future-making (Cornelius Holtorf).- Chapter 11. The roles of the locals - and the possible reconstruction of the destroyed Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen).- Chapter 12. Learning from Ground Zero: The Presence of Absence at Two Sites of Destruction (Helaine Iris Silverman).- Part V: Future Treatment of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues.- Chapter 13. Reflections on the Case of Bamiyan (Jukka Jokilehto).- Chapter 14. Entangled Narrative Biographies ofthe Colossal Sculptures of Bamiyan (Deborah Klimburg-Salter).- Chapter 15. Could the Buddha Statues of Bamiyan be a case of "exceptional circumstance" for reconstruction? (Junko Okahashi).- Chapter 16. Emptiness and Authenticity at Bamiyan (James Janowski).- Part VI: Technical intervention proposals for the reconstruction of Bamiyan Buddha statue.- Chapter 17. The renaissance of Bamiyan (Afghanistan) Some proposals for the revitalisation of the Bamiyan valley (Claudio Margottini, Nicola Casagli, Filippo Tincolini, Andrea Bruno, Giacomo Massari, Filippo Tincolini, Heinz Ruther).- Chapter 18. Physical Revitalization of the Eastern Buddha Statue in Bamiyan using reinforced adobe material (Georgios Toubekis, Michael Jansen and Matthias Jarke).- Chapter 19. Technical Proposal for Revitalizing the Eastern Buddha Statues in Bamiyan (Kosaku Maeda, Shigeyuki Okazaki, Noritoshi Sugiura, Aya Yamaguchi, Masaaki Miyasako, Kazuya Yamauchi, Kenji Tamai, Shigeo Aoki, Takashi Inoue).
