Dr. Joris D. Kila, University of Amsterdam, and James A.
Zeidler, Colorado State University, edited Cultural Heritage in theCrosshairs: Protecting Cultural Property during Conflict (Brill Publications,
May 2013).
Dr. Kila, co-recipient with Karl von Habsburg in 2012 of
ARCA’s Art Protection and Security Award, attended the 2013 Art and Cultural
Heritage Conference in Amelia last month. He has undertaken cultural rescue
missions in Iraq, Macedonia, Egypt and Libya and is affiliated with several
heritage organizations. In the Blue Shield Winner Heritage under Siege (Brill, 2012), Dr. Kila considered the practical feasibility of the 1954 Hague Convention.
Dr. Zeidler is a Senior Research Scientist at Colorado State
Univesity where he serves as Associate Director for Cultural Resources in the
Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMMI). He has been
involve din Cultural Resource Management on US military installations since
1992 and has provided cultural heritage awareness training to US troops
deployed in the Middle East.
The protection of cultural property during times of armed conflict and social unrest has been an on-going challenge for military forces throughout the world even after the ratification and implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention and its two Protocols by participating nations. This volume provides a series of case studies and “lessons learned” to assess the current status of Cultural Property Protection (CPP) and the military, and use that information to rethink the way forward. The contributors are all recognized experts in the field of military CPP or cultural heritage and conflict, and all are actively engaged in developing national and international solutions for the protection and conservation of these non-renewable resources and the intangible cultural values that they represent.
Here’s a list of the chapters (the book can be purchased
online; its discounted 25% through 31-12-2013 with the Action Code 50555):
Chapter 1: Introduction by Karl von Habsburg
Chapter 2: "Military involvement in Cultural
Property Protection as part of Preventive Conservation" by Joris D. Kila
Chapter 3: "Respecting and Protecting Cultural
Heritage in Peace Support Operations – a pragmatic approach" by Colonel Dr. Michael Pesendorfer
Chapter 4: "Cultural Property Protection and the
Training Continuum in the US Department of Defense" by James A. Zeidler
Chapter 5: "Developing a Cultural Property
Protection Training Program for ROTC: Methodology, Content, and Structure" by John A Valainis
Chapter 6: "Conflicting memory: The use of conflict
archaeology sites as training for operational troops" by Richard Osgood
Chapter 7: "Developing a NATO Cultural Property
Protection Capability" by CDR Michael Hallett
Chapter 8: "Aiming to Miss: Engaging with the
Targeting Process as a means of Cultural Property Protection" by Michael Hallett
Chapter 9: "A Case Study in Cultural Heritage
Protection in a Time of War" by CPT Benjamin A. Roberts and LTC Gary B. Roberts
(Ret.)
Chapter 10: "Counterinsurgency: A Tool for
Cultural Heritage?" by Cheryl White and Tommy Livoti
Chapter 11: "Heritage Destruction and Spikes in
Violence: The Case of Iraq" by B. Isakhan
Chapter 12: "A Report on Archaeological Site
Stability and Security in Afghanistan: The Lashkari Bazar Survey" by Matthieu J. Murdock and Carrie A. Hritz
Chapter 13: "Holy Places – Contested Heritage:
Dealing with Cultural Heritage in the Region of Palestine From the Ottoman
Period until Today" by Friedrich T. Schipper
Chapter 14: "Urban cultural heritage and armed
conflict: the case of Beirut Central District" by Caroline A. Sandes
Chapter 15: "Antiquity & Conflict: Some
Historical Remarks on a Matter of Selection" by Mirjam Hoijtink
Chapter 16: "Plundering Boys: A cultural
criminology assessment on the power of cultural heritage as a cause for plunder
in armed conflicts along history" by Marc Balcells (ARCA Alum).
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