Coakley, Sinead and McAuliffe, Padraig 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7712-5472
(2022)
Picking up the pieces: Transitional justice responses to destruction of tangible cultural heritage.
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 40 (3).
pp. 311-332.
Abstract
The intentional destruction of tangible cultural heritage is commonplace in contemporary conflict. Heritage has immense social, symbolic, and spiritual value and its destruction reveals a broader attack on cultural identity and coexistence. Transitional justice (TJ) efforts have largely neglected cultural destruction as part of a wider marginalisation of cultural rights. This article considers why this is the case and argues that TJ has a meaningful role to play in engaging with issues of collective identity by countering harmful narratives of difference and recognising the legitimacy of cultural variance. It explores the ways TJ can incorporate cultural destruction within the remit of truth commissions, shape educational curricula and influence physical reconstruction of destroyed heritage. In so doing, it can give effect to the indivisibility and interdependence of civil and political, socio-economic, and cultural rights.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cultural rights, reparations, tangible cultural heritage, Transitional justice, truth commissions |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2022 09:33 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jan 2024 17:13 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/09240519221113121 |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1177/09240519221113121 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3160685 |
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