Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building

Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building examines the possibilities arising from, and challenges associated with, transforming heritage from a casualty of conflict into an opportunity for peacebuilding.

Conflict and Peace-Building: Heritage in Transformation; PART I - Remembering Conflict for Justice - 1. Remembering and Forgetting the Opium Wars: British Colonial Injustice, Education and Heritage; 2. Peace without Transitional Justice: Cultural Heritage as a Means of Taming Collective Memory on the Example of Post-Trianon Hungary; 3. Serbian Victimhood and Historical Injustice: Understanding Heritage Sites and Narratives in the former Yugoslavia; PART II - Contestation, Negotiation, and Dialogue - 4. Negotiated Encoding and Decoding of Sensitive Heritage; 5. Contested Heritage Perspectives and Strategies in Cyprus; 6. Non-Violent Confrontation Through World Heritage: A Case Study of Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority; 7. Participatory Heritage Development for a Positive Peace Framework; PART III - Reconciliation and Prevention - 8. Cultural Heritage in the Management and Resolution of Conflicts in Indigenous Communities: A Case Study of the Bette People of Nigeria; 9. The Role of UNESCO-led Reconstructions in Post-Conflict Reconciliation; 10. Reimagining the 9/11 Aftermath: Transforming Violent Extremism in a Case Study about Youth, Prevention, Heritage, and Resiliency; 11 Afterword; Index.