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Fortification Of The International Defense Of Cultural Property Trapped In Areas Of Armed Conflict, Marissa E. Higgins
Fortification Of The International Defense Of Cultural Property Trapped In Areas Of Armed Conflict, Marissa E. Higgins
Honors College
This thesis examines the state of cultural-property protection during armed conflict. Following a description of the ethical impositions and international background of the concept, theoretical expectations of cultural-property protection in present-day armed conflicts are compiled through the comparison of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. These two conventions were chosen because of their relevance to the actual application of cultural-property protection during armed conflict, which was established through research into the effects the recent …