Description
This paper offers a new lens to think of the challenges and opportunities to protect, rebuild and disseminate heritage after civil war and conflict. It presents a global analysis of policies related with the protection and dissemination of tangible and intangible heritage in global political agreements concluded in 1989-2016 (based on PAIC, Fontana et al, 2021). Despite being generally overlooked in academic research, reforms of the organisations and institutions that protect and disseminate heritage figure rather prominently in accords attempting to mitigate civil war and conflict. This paper combines descriptive statistics with text analysis of 286 political agreements to shed light on how heritage is framed in peace settlements worldwide. It underscores that peace accords often focus on the economic advantages of reforming education, museums and other cultural institutions tasked with the protection and dissemination of heritage after conflict. It will then employ the lens of political economy to critically explore and investigate the formulation of policies related with the protection and dissemination of tangible and intangible heritage in countries emerging from civil war and conflict.
