The Rise of Safe Havens for Threatened Cultural Heritage

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ID4282550
AuthorsNikolaus Thaddäus Paumgartner, Raphael Zingg (0000-0001-5298-4097, ETH Zurich)
Year2018
Volume25
Issue3
Pages323-346
Publication date2018-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Property (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0940-7391 • E-ISSN: 1465-7317
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0940739118000188
OpenAlexW2906564231
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

In light of the recent rise of destruction and looting of cultural property, a need for formalized heritage protection has arisen. Increasingly popular in the debate has become the instrument of international assistance known as "safe havens." These temporary refuges for at-risk cultural goods in a third country have recently been implemented by Switzerland, France, the United States, and the Association of Art Museum Directors. We assess the contributions and shortcomings of these four regimes using a comparative approach. Mainly, we find that, despite variations in their scope and structure, none of the models accounts entirely for today's major difficulties in protecting endangered cultural properties. We draw recommendations for future safe haven states against the backdrop of the existing models and hope to see the instrument used in practice as a way to safely isolate cultural property from destructive conflicts

Business · Cultural heritage · Cultural property · Economics · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Looting · Political science · Property (philosophy · Safe haven · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Threatened species · Archaeological Research and Protection · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

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