Heritage under attack: motives for targeting cultural property during armed conflict

Brosché, Johan; Legnér, Mattias; Kreutz, Joakim; Ijla, Akram

doi:10.1080/13527258.2016.1261918

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“…Such relationships are evident by understanding enemies' motivations for attacking objects representing cultural heritage of their societies (Brosché, Legnér, Kreutz, & Ijla, 2016).…”

Section: Difficultymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Colombian Signed Peace Agreement: A Text Mining Analysis of its Comprehension Difficulty

Correa¹,

García-Chitiva²,

Vargas³

2017

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A proposed solution to finish the Colombian armed conflict was recently subjected to a plebiscite. Colombians had to support or reject the idea of ceasing the fire and mutual hostilities between the government and guerrilla group “FARC-EP”, along with other socio-economic reforms. Given a 62.57% of abstention, the solution was rejected by only 18.44% of the electorate. The contribution of this work is the development of a methodological approach that shows how nations’ peace agreements can be linguistically analyzed as political products. Our approach illustrates with sufficient computationaldetail a text mining method to scrutinize the Colombian signed peace agreement and compare its ease of comprehension by the ordinary citizen with other Latin American peace deals. The results of our approach, based on the readability SMOG formula, showed that the linguistic features of these accords were beyond the schooling years of the general audience. The implications of our perspective and its applications to political communication purposes are finally discussed.

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“…Such relationships are evident by understanding enemies' motivations for attacking objects representing cultural heritage of their societies (Brosché, Legnér, Kreutz, & Ijla, 2016).…”

Section: Difficultymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Colombian Signed Peace Agreement: A Text Mining Analysis of its Comprehension Difficulty

Correa¹,

García-Chitiva²,

Vargas³

2017

Preprint

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“…Cultural heritage has become a key factor in achieving sustainable urban development, particularly with its contribution to boosting the measures of liveability and sustainability [1]. Such heritage assets have, sadly, also become a target for destruction in conflict situations, primarily because of their attributed values [2].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the challenge of reconstruction in post-conflict situations, where the cultural heritage asset and its values have been partially or totally lost, has been even more controversial. The displacement of the connected communities, in addition to differing societal interests that emerge from conflict situations add particular challenges [2,4,5].…”

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confidence: 99%

Towards a Heritage-Led Sustainable Post-Conflict Reconciliation: A Policy-Led Perspective

Alsalloum

Brown

2019

Sustainability

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In today’s context, threats to heritage sites posed by armed conflicts are prevalent. This article argues for an urgently needed framework, based on authoritative heritage policy documents, to guide sustainable reconciliation in such circumstances. The methodological approach proposed derives from a content analysis strategy that investigated a selected list of documents. Key extractions are then synthesised to develop useful recommendations for sustainable post-conflict reconciliation in heritage contexts. This conceptual framework also helps to achieve the potential re-nomination of any reconstructed sites which, in turn, provides both additional robust protection of heritage values, and supports sustainable development. This article presents the first part of a broader research study and is intended to communicate the results to a multi-faceted international audience including stakeholders, along with policy and decision makers in the world heritage field. The application of the proposed framework to the world heritage cities of Damascus and Aleppo is the subject of the second part of this research and is presented in a subsequent paper in this special issue of the journal Sustainability.

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“…Destruction of cultural heritage often belongs to the more visible effects of war. 1 As a result, the reconstruction of heritage sites after conflict becomes part of political processes shaping post-conflict communities, contributing to confirming or creating new identities. Despite that large investments have been made by the European Union in restoring and preserving heritage damaged both during and after the Kosovo War 1998-99, there is surprisingly little knowledge of how decisions were made before and during interventions.…”

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Post-conflict reconstruction and the heritage process

Legnér

2018

Journal of Architectural Conservation

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Despite that large investments have been made by the European Union in restoring and preserving heritage damaged after the Kosovo War 1998-99, there have been no previous attempts to gain more in-depth knowledge about the implementation and success of the interventions. Organisations involved in funding and facilitating architectural interventions in post-conflict zones may have differing aims and agendas that influence selection and methods, and ultimately the results. This paper aims to shed light on a pioneering project carried out on damaged kullas, massive masonry towers connected to farmsteads, in Kosovo 2001-02. Kullas were systematically attacked and burned during the conflict. The methodology is based on interviews with involved people and on documentation that is publically available, since it is crucial to uncover the aims and agendas of involved actors if one wishes to understand how and why decisions were made. In the end, what was deemed most important in the process was not the reconstruction in itself, but rather the development of craftsmen's skills and the need to create a dialogue on the values of Kosovo heritage. The paper shows how the reconstruction of built heritage can facilitate processes of dialogue in conflict areas.

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Heritage under attack: motives for targeting cultural property during armed conflict

Cited by 55 publications

References 44 publications

The Colombian Signed Peace Agreement: A Text Mining Analysis of its Comprehension Difficulty

The Colombian Signed Peace Agreement: A Text Mining Analysis of its Comprehension Difficulty

Towards a Heritage-Led Sustainable Post-Conflict Reconciliation: A Policy-Led Perspective

Post-conflict reconstruction and the heritage process

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