Introduction / Helen Walasek -- Destruction of the cultural heritage in Bosnia-Herzegovina : an overview / Helen Walasek -- Documenting the destruction / Richard Carlton and Helen Walasek -- Topography of destruction : post-conflict fieldwork assessing the cultural heritage in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Richard Carlton and Helen Walasek -- Cultural heritage protection in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina : Annex 8 of the Dayton Peace Agreement / Valery Perry -- Domains of restoration : actors and agendas in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina / Helen Walasek -- The built heritage in the post-war reconstruction of Stolac / Amra Hadzimuhamedovic -- Restoring war-damaged built cultural heritage in Bosnia-Herzegovina : an international perspective / Tina Wik -- Cultural heritage, the search for justice and human rights / Helen Walasek -- Appendix A: Brief introduction to the cultural heritage of Bosnia-Herzegovina / Helen Walasek -- Glossary
Summary
The massive intentional destruction of cultural heritage during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War targeting a historically diverse identity provoked global condemnation and became a seminal marker in the discourse on cultural heritage. It prompted an urgent reassessment of how cultural property could be protected in times of conflict and led to a more definitive recognition in international humanitarian law that destruction of a people's cultural heritage is an aspect of genocide. Yet surprisingly little has been published on the subject. This wide-ranging book provides the first comprehensive overvie
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-374) and index
