Site Title: Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities

Edited by James Cuno and Thomas G. Weiss

Table of Contents

  • Contents 
  • Foreword 
  • Preface and Acknowledgments 
  • List of Abbreviations 
  • Introduction 
  • Part 1. Values 
    • Introduction 
    • 1. Identity and Cultural Heritage 
    • 2. Why Do We Value Cultural Heritage? 
    • 3. Learning from History 
    • 4. Cultural Heritage of Late Antiquity 
    • 5. Written Heritage of the Muslim World 
    • 6. The Value of Cultural Heritage 
  • Part 2. Under Siege: Recent Case Studies 
    • Introduction 
    • 7. Uyghur Heritage 
    • 8. Post-Conflict Sri Lanka and Afghanistan 
    • 9. The War on Heritage in Iraq 
    • 10. The Destruction of Aleppo 
    • 11. The Lost Heritage of Homs 
    • 12. Reconstruction, Who Decides? 
    • 13. Yemen’s Manuscript Culture 
    • 14. Cultural Heritage at Risk in Mali 
    • 15. Indigenous Guatemalan Heritage 
  • Part 3. Populations at Risk 
    • Introduction 
    • 16. Cultural Cleansing and Mass Atrocities 
    • 17. Human Life and Cultural Heritage in War 
    • 18. Saving Stones and Saving Lives 
    • 19. Engaging Nonstate Armed Groups 
    • 20. Transitional Justice Strategies 
  • Part 4. International Law 
    • Introduction 
    • 21. Protecting Cultural Heritage 
    • 22. International Humanitarian Law 
    • 23. International Human Rights Law 
    • 24. Customs and General Principles 
    • 25. Prosecuting Heritage Destruction 
    • 26. Terrorist Attacks on World Heritage 
  • Part 5. Military Perspectives 
    • Introduction 
    • 27. War and Religious Heritage 
    • 28. From Kyoto to Baghdad to Tehran 
    • 29. Cultural Heritage in Wartime 
    • 30. Peace Operations 
    • 31. Cultural Property in Armed Conflict 
    • 32. When Peace Breaks Out 
  • Conclusion 
  • Suggested Readings 
  • Contributors 
  • About 
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Part 1. Cultural Heritage and Values

  • Introduction: Part 1 — James Cuno and Thomas G. Weiss 
  • 1. Who Are We? Identity and Cultural Heritage — Kwame Anthony Appiah 
  • 2. Why Do We Value Cultural Heritage? — Neil MacGregor 
  • 3. Cultural Heritage under Attack: Learning from History — Hermann Parzinger 
  • 4. The Cultural Heritage of Late Antiquity — Glen W. Bowersock 
  • 5. The Written Heritage of the Muslim World — Sabine Schmidtke 
  • 6. Valuing the Legacy of our Cultural Heritage — Ismail Serageldin 
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