Currently the principle piece of international legislation on Cultural Property Protection (CPP) is the Hague Convention (1954) along with its first (1954) and second (1999) protocols (Stone 2013: 166). The original Convention was guided by the principles of the Washington Pact of 1935 and built on the recognition that, during World War II, a huge amount of CP had “suffered grave damage during recent armed conflicts and that, by reason of the developments in the technique of warfare, [cultural properties are] in increasing danger of destruction” (UNESCO 1954). The clear intention of the Convention was “to ensure that such losses of cultural heritage during war would never again occur” (Wegener & Otter 2008). It gave a wide definition of CP, covering anything from large buildings and archaeological sites to individual artefacts, books, archives and artworks; anything that is important in some way to the cultural heritage of every person.
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