Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building

Lucas Lixinski is a professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW Sydney, Australia. He comes to heritage from his background as a lawyer, and he explores international cultural heritage law and institutions from the perspective of critical heritage studies. Yujie Zhu is an associate professor at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University, Australia. With a background in anthropology and critical heritage studies, his research explores the cultural politics of the past within heritage and tourism spaces.

Conflict and Peace-Building: Heritage in Transformation; PART I – Remembering Conflict for Justice – 1. Remembering and Forgetting the Opium Wars: British Colonial Injustice, Education and Heritage; 2. Peace without Transitional Justice: Cultural Heritage as a Means of Taming Collective Memory on the Example of Post-Trianon Hungary; 3. Serbian Victimhood and Historical Injustice: Understanding Heritage Sites and Narratives in the former Yugoslavia; PART II – Contestation, Negotiation, and Dialogue – 4. Negotiated Encoding and Decoding of Sensitive Heritage; 5. Contested Heritage Perspectives and Strategies in Cyprus; 6. Non-Violent Confrontation Through World Heritage: A Case Study of Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority; 7. Participatory Heritage Development for a Positive Peace Framework; PART III – Reconciliation and Prevention – 8. Cultural Heritage in the Management and Resolution of Conflicts in Indigenous Communities: A Case Study of the Bette People of Nigeria; 9. The Role of UNESCO-led Reconstructions in Post-Conflict Reconciliation; 10. Reimagining the 9/11 Aftermath: Transforming Violent Extremism in a Case Study about Youth, Prevention, Heritage, and Resiliency; 11 Afterword; Index.