The Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage between International Conventions and Direct Intervention

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Abstract

Through the analysis of the evolution of the most important juridical instruments, this study aims to analyse the peculiarity of the intentional destruction of CH in the terrorist case. In fact, the Taliban and the IS actions against CH have some similarities that make terrorist’s behaviour different from other cases in history. The international reactions to this brutality, however, have not been strong enough and there is a high risk that other historical monuments will be destroyed. For this reason, in this study the possibility of a responsibility to protect for CH is investigated.


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Submitted: Dec. 20, 2016 | Accepted: March 21, 2017 | Published Dec. 31, 2017 | Language: en

Keywords Terrorism • Intentional destruction • Responsibility to protect

Copyright © 2017 Silvia Giulini. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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