Global Capacity and Financing
Expert and Stakeholder Meeting
Cultural Property Protection: Global Capacity and Financing
Tuesday 22 – Wednesday 23 June 2021.
Organizers: The Nordic Center for Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict and the Blue Shield International.
CPP enjoys increasing focus as a part of the broader peace and security agenda. As concerns about CP recently started to migrate from the cultural sector to the defense and development sectors, aid planners and military commanders often find themselves lacking the tools for including CP in the planning, conduct and after-action review of initiatives and operations. There remains a considerable gap between developments in international law and policy, on the one hand, and practical investment in the area at national and international levels.
Against this background, CHAC and BSI invited 20 stakeholders/focal points working on CPP or related issues in national and international organizations and agencies. the meeting aimed at:
Assessing the global capacity on and financing of CPP within defence forces and key international organisations.
Discussing general barriers for making CPP a priority issue and mobilizing practical resources for implementing policy and applicable international law
Deepen existing and foster new dialogues and partnerships amongst stakeholders in states, international organizations, non-government organizations and expert milieus.
Examine new aspects of CPP as a thematic policy issue in the light of recent developments in global security, including the return to Collective Defence as a military planning paradigm