Yemen. A Humanitarian and Cultural Emergency

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Abstract

Since March 2015 Yemeni people is experiencing one of the bloodiest conflicts in the country’s history. A conflict that is going beyond the international non-armed conflict boarders. A mixture of tribalism, sectarianism, proxy war, geopolitical interests and economic factors are heavily altering the Yemeni social fabric. Furthermore, both fighting parties are attacking cultural and archeological sites adding new losses to the long war casualty list. The paper tries to give voice to this cultural emergency, taking into account both the local context and the international legislation regarding the protection of cultural heritage during armed conflicts.


open access | peer reviewed

Presentato: 20 Dicembre 2016 | Accettato: 21 Marzo 2017 | Pubblicato 31 Dicembre 2017 | Lingua: en

Keywords Humanitarian law • Vernacular architecture • Endangered heritage

Copyright © 2017 Renzo Ravagnan, Massimo Khairallah, Cristina Muradore. 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.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-052-5/SE-4-11


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