Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law

Amy Strecker is Associate Professor of Law at University College Dublin. She is the author of several publications on the role of international law in heritage and landscape governance, including her monograph, Landscape Protection in International Law (OUP, 2018). Joseph Powderly is Associate Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University. He is the author of Judges and the Making of International Criminal Law (Brill/Nijhoff 2020) and numerous articles and chapters in the field of international law.

Acknowledgements


Notes on Contributors


  Amy Strecker and Joseph Powderly


1 Is International Law Ready for the Recognition of a General Obligation to Prevent and Avoid Destruction of Cultural Heritage?


  Francesco Francioni


2 The Genealogy of ‘Universality’ within Cultural Heritage Law


  Sophie Starrenburg


3 Grave Crimes


Conservation, Conflict and Criminality in Timbuktu


  Lynn Meskell


4 Heritage Destruction as a Collective Harm
Challenges and Pitfalls of International Cultural Justice


  Andrzej Jakubowski


5 Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage
Sentencing and Reparations


  Ana Filipa Vrdoljak


6 Responding to the Destruction of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Situations of Armed Conflict
What International Law to Apply?


  Janet Blake


7 Toward a Human Rights-Based Approach as an Element in Post-conflict Cultural Heritage Reconstruction


  Patty Gerstenblith


8 Cultural Heritage Losses in Peacetime
Challenges and Lingering Questions


  Alessandro Chechi


9 Balancing Economic Interests with Cultural Preservation in Development Contexts
Insight into the Meaning of “Imperatives of Development”


  Berenika Drazewska


10 The Right to Participate in Cultural Life and Heritage Destruction
Panacea or Part of the Problem?


  Lucas Lixinski


11 The Destruction of Indigenous Peoples’ Heritage and International Law


  Federico Lenzerini


12 Environmental Principles and Heritage in Australia
A First Nations Focus


  Ben Boer


13 Beyond Sovereignty.


Tara, the M3, and Access to Justice for Cultural Landscape Destruction in Ireland


  Amy Strecker and Conor Newman


14 Virtual Enclosure, Spatial Injustice and Heritage Destruction in the Caribbean
The Case of Camerhogne Park, Grenada


  Amanda Byer


15 The Notion of ‘Heritage Title’ for Contested Cultural Objects


  Evelien Campfens


Afterword:
Heritage Destruction and the War on Ukraine


  Joseph Powderly and Amy Strecker


Index