Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
Published on 12. July 2017
544 pages
978-1-351-90817-7 (ISBN)
Description
At the request of UNESCO, Jiri Toman, Acting Director of the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva has written this detailed analysis of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict - still the only universal legal instrument in this field. The author has used the materials that emerged from the preparatory work for the Convention and has taken numerous examples from UNESCO's records about the application of the Convention in conflicts over the last 40 years to illustrate this article-by-article commentary on the Convention itself, the Regulations for its Execution, and its Protocol. The author establishes parallels with other international legal instruments such as the 1977 Protocols Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions or the other UNESCO conventions relating to cultural heritage and puts forward ideas for a more general study of the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict and the legal and practical ways of achieving this. This work should satisfy the expectations of politicians and those responsible for culture in the countries that are States Parties to the Convention, now numbering more than 80, and of those that are considering becoming parties to it, given the increasing calls being made for the international community to have greater powers to defend the cultural heritage from attacks to which it is too often exposed in armed conflicts today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
2,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-90817-7 (9781351908177)
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Jiri Toman
Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
Commentary on the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its Protocol, signed on 14 May 1954 in The Hague, and on other instruments of international law concerning such protection
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12/1996
1st Edition
Dartmouth Publishing Co Ltd
€123.49
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Person
Toman, Jiri
Content
Contents: General Introduction; Historical development of the rules of international law concerning the protection of cultural property; Intergovernmental conference on the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict, held in the Hague from 21 April to 14 May 1954; Developments in the protection of cultural property since the Hague Convention. Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Signed at the Hague on 14 May 1954 (Including the Regulations for its Execution); General provisions regarding protection; Special protection; Transport of cultural property; Personnel; The distinctive emblem; Scope of application of the Convention; Execution of the Convention. Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Signed at the Hague on 14 May 1954. Resolutions Adopted by the 1954 Hague Conference. The Protection of Cultural Property in Time of Armed Conflict and the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property; (Paris, 14 November 1970). The Protection of Cultural Property in Time of Armed Conflict and the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (Paris, 16 November 1972). Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International and Non-International Armed Conflicts, (Geneva, 8 June 1977); Annexes; Index.
