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Enforcing Restitution Of Cultural Heritage Through Peace Agreements, Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
Enforcing Restitution Of Cultural Heritage Through Peace Agreements, Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
Peace agreements have been an important source of international law in modern times. They have been especially important in the earliest formulations of the international and regional protection of cultural heritage. The significance of this source of international law making and its enforcement has become more pronounced with the exponential proliferation of peace processes and resultant agreements since the end of the Cold War. It is argued that how cultural heritage (and cultural rights) is historically dealt with in peace agreements falls broadly into three discernible categories: (1) restitution and restoration of cultural heritage as reparations between existing states, post …