Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building

Heritage,Conflict,and Peace-Building explores how heritage can be transformed from a casualty of conflict into a tool for peacebuilding, presenting case studies and highlighting the roles of diverse institutional actors in fostering peace.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building explores the potentialities and complexities inherent in transforming heritage from a victim of conflict into a catalyst for peace-building. Contributors from academia and practice present case studies that shed light on the multifaceted factors and conditions influenced by diplomacy, nationalism, victimhood, and the roles of diverse institutional actors in fostering peace. They demonstrate the possibilities and pitfalls of heritage's work for local communities, nation-states, and the international community when these different actors and their peace aspirations and agendas intersect.

Examining heritage and peace processes across all continents, the contributions in this volume provide a compelling analytical account of how the discourses of heritage and peace connect, overlap, and diverge. They also emphasize that our shared aspiration for peace should not be taken for granted in a heritage context and that heritage scholars and practitioners must be more intentional about the work they wish to undertake to promote peace.

Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building will appeal to scholars and practitioners engaged in heritage studies, transitional justice, museum studies, international relations, education, history, and law.

Weight: 426g
Dimension: 157 x 236 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032512617