Constrictions on International Law Protection of Cultural Properties in Armed Conflicts Cover Image

Ограничења међународноправне заштите културних добара у оружаним сукобима
Constrictions on International Law Protection of Cultural Properties in Armed Conflicts

Author(s): Vladan Jončić, Miloš Petrović
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, International Law, Military policy
Published by: Институт за политичке студије
Keywords: The International Law of Armed conflict; Geneva Conventions; the Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property; armed conflict; cultural property; general protection; special protection; enhanced

Summary/Abstract: The International Law of Armed Conflicts as an assembly of legal rules that are employed in situations of armed conflicts is directed to finding the compromise between permanent military necessity and humanitarian tents. The objective of any war is to defeat the enemy as fast and as efficient as possible. The aim of humanitarian tenets and principles is to minimize the devastation that is direct consequence of that conflict and as possible to humanize anent to mitigate these effects. The force that is applied during armed conflicts that is really necessary for achieving the final objective which was the immanent reason for the conflict must be controlled and reasonable and in accordance to the aim provided. Frequently, during armed conflicts, willingly or not in all that huddle, not only human resources are being destroyed but also cultural properties that represent material evidence of the contribution of a nation to the context of global civilization. Due to the reason of military necessity the international protection of cultural properties is restricted anent there is a certain derogation of cultural properties protection based upon the tenets of humanitarian law. It is necessary to make an insight into the reality of armed conflicts that imply the destruction of cultural properties or cultural properties becoming the military objective and target in the course of action. It is required to establish when, under what circumstances, under what command and along what kind of precautions is it allowed to attack cultural properties?

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 149-168
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Serbian