CRIMINAL-LAW LIABILITY OF PERPETRATORS OF CRIMES AGAINST CULTURAL GOODS COMMITTED DURING ARMED CONFLICTS AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE Cover Image

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CRIMINAL-LAW LIABILITY OF PERPETRATORS OF CRIMES AGAINST CULTURAL GOODS COMMITTED DURING ARMED CONFLICTS AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE

Author(s): Anna Gerecka-Żołyńska
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Criminal Law, International Law, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: criminal-law liability; perpetrators of crimes against cultural goods; armed conflicts; international protection of the world cultural heritage;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents two international documents produced in the last decade of the twentieth century, the adoption of which was intended to contribute, among other things, to a more effective protection of cultural assets in times of armed conflicts. The increase in their effectiveness was mainly the result of distinguishing individual criminal liability of perpetrators of offences against cultural property by national and international jurisdictions. Accordingly, the provisions of Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1999) and the provisions of the Statutes of the International Criminal Court have been duly discussed. Attention was drawn to the similarities and differences in these documents which allow to eliminate the existing legal loopholes and the still unsatisfactory level of protection of cultural goods in times of armed conflicts.

  • Issue Year: 80/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 255-267
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish