Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace - An Introductory Guide

Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in post-conflict societies.
Designed as a resource guide, this general volume introduces the multiple roles cultural heritage plays through the conflict cycle from its onset, subsequent escalation and through to resolution and recovery. In its broadest sense, it questions what role cultural heritage plays within conflict, how cultural heritage is used in the construction and justification of conflict narratives, how are these narratives framed and often manipulated to support particular perspectives, and how we can develop better understandings of cultural heritage and work towards the better protection of cultural heritage resources during conflict. It moves beyond the protection paradigm and recognises that cultural heritage can contribute to building peace and reconciliation in post-conflict environments. The study offers a conceptual and operational framework to understand the roles cultural heritage plays within conflict cycles, how it can be targeted during war, and the potential cultural heritage has in positive peacebuilding across the conflict lifecycle.
Conflict, Cultural Heritage, and Peace offers an invaluable introduction to cultural heritage at all stages in conflict scenarios which will benefit students, researchers and practitioners in the field of heritage, environment, peace and conflict studies.

List of contents

1.Introduction, 2. Cultural Heritage and the Causes of Violent Conflict Causes, 3.Heritage and Ethnic/ Identity Conflicts, 4. Heritage and Nation Building, 5. Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict, 6. Cultural Heritage, Peacemaking and Post-Conflict Societies, 7. Cultural Heritage and Peace, 8. Heritage and Conflict Memory, 9. Comparative practice and Environmental Peacebuilding, 10. Conclusion.

Summary

Conflict, Cultural Heritage, and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in post-conflict societies.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Breen, Colin (Associate Head of the School of Geog Breen, Breen Colin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032509389
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250938-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, HISTORY / Military / General, TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, Anthropology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, military history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social groups, Warfare & defence, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Armed Conflict, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, Social groups, communities and identities