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Revisiting Enhanced Protection: Implications from a Practical Case Study

Data publikacji: 18.12.2024

Santander Art and Culture Law Review, 2024, 2/2024 (10), s. 155 - 180

https://doi.org/10.4467/2450050XSNR.24.015.20826

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Emma Cunliffe
School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University
, Wielka Brytania
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8888-3252 Orcid
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Revisiting Enhanced Protection: Implications from a Practical Case Study

Abstrakt

The 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954) created a new legal framework to improve protection for the world’s most important cultural property in cases of conflict, called enhanced protection. However, it has never been tested. In representing the NGO Blue Shield International, I had the opportunity to test it on the NATO training exercise STEADFAST JACKAL 2023. The training audience, Eurocorps, was presented with a complex non-international armed conflict in which tensions escalated over a (fictional) site under enhanced protection. Multiple stakeholders, including the national owners and armed non-state groups, provoked conflicting legal and policy obligations. The actions taken by Eurocorps raised implications for safeguarding enhanced protection sites in real situations, which this article seeks to highlight and explore, offering a new understanding of the application of law in practice. The article argues that in certain circumstances enhanced protection may lead to competing obligations regarding human rights, justice, and cultural protection. Those registering sites and acting to protect them must consider likely scenarios carefully to establish good practices. Otherwise, enhanced protection could defend sites to the detriment of those that value them.

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The author owes thanks to NATO SHAPE J9 and the Joint Warfare Centre (particularly the Grey Cell) for their support during the exercise and in allowing this article’s publication; to Eurocorps, particularly J9; to Blue Shield International for permission to publish; and to my colleagues for their comments on the draft. I especially thank Francesca Dell’Acqua

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Informacje

Informacje: Santander Art and Culture Law Review, 2024, 2/2024 (10), s. 155 - 180

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Tytuły:

Angielski: Revisiting Enhanced Protection: Implications from a Practical Case Study

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8888-3252

Emma Cunliffe
School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University
, Wielka Brytania
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8888-3252 Orcid
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School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University
Wielka Brytania

Publikacja: 18.12.2024

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY  ikona licencji

Finansowanie artykułu:

BSI’s travel and subsistence to attend the exercise were funded by SHAPE.

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Emma Cunliffe (Autor) - 100%

Informacje o autorze:

Emma Cunliffe holds a PhD from Durham University, the United Kingdom, specializing in geospatial data and satellite imagery analysis of archaeological sites in Syria. She is a Senior Research Associate with the Cultural Property Protection & Peace Team at the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University. Her current research focuses on the destruction of cultural heritage during armed conflict, examining the reasons for damage, and developing proactive solutions to protect it, with particular focus on the role of the armed forces, and the place of national and international law. She also works for the Blue Shield, an NGO working in heritage protection before and during armed conflict, where she is the international coordinator of the worldwide movement, as well as supporting civil military cooperation and providing subject matter expertise for military training (focussing on cultural property protection, human security, and protection of civilians), as well as advocating for improvements in policy and implementation of heritage protection law.

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Angielski