Picking up the pieces: Transitional justice responses to destruction of tangible cultural heritage

Coakley, S and McAuliffe, P (2022) Picking up the pieces: Transitional justice responses to destruction of tangible cultural heritage. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 40 (3). pp. 311-332. ISSN 0924-0519

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Abstract

The intentional destruction of tangible cultural heritage is commonplace in contemporary conflict. Heritage has immense social, symbolic, and spiritual value and its destruction reveals a broader attack on cultural identity and coexistence. Transitional justice (TJ) efforts have largely neglected cultural destruction as part of a wider marginalisation of cultural rights. This article considers why this is the case and argues that TJ has a meaningful role to play in engaging with issues of collective identity by countering harmful narratives of difference and recognising the legitimacy of cultural variance. It explores the ways TJ can incorporate cultural destruction within the remit of truth commissions, shape educational curricula and influence physical reconstruction of destroyed heritage. In so doing, it can give effect to the indivisibility and interdependence of civil and political, socio-economic, and cultural rights.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1801 Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions:	Law
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Date of acceptance:	19 December 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access:	31 July 2024
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2024 15:44
Last Modified:	31 Jul 2024 15:44
DOI or ID number:	10.1177/09240519221113121
URI:	https://ljmu-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/23850

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