20 September. The proceedings of the 2005 ICCROM Forum on 'Cultural Heritage in Postwar Recovery' have now been published.

Papers presented at the Forum focused on: the dynamism of identity, records of memory, handicrafts and traditions, landscape and environment, and reconstruction.

The book, edited by Nicholas Stanley-Price, is priced at 35 euros, can be purchased from the online bookshop.
publications (at) iccrom.org

Contents

• Preface
  Nicholas Stanley-Price
• The thread of continuity: cultural heritage in postwar recovery
  Nicholas Stanley-Price
• Cultural destruction by war, and its impact on group identities
  Neal Ascherson
• Postwar reconstruction and the recovery of cultural heritage: critical lessons from the last fifteen years
  Sultan Barakat
• Divided cities and ethnic conflict in the urban domain
  Jon Calame
• Hmong postwar identity production: heritage maintenance and cultural reinterpretation
  Gary Yia Lee
• Recovering a family heritage: a personal experience in east Germany
  Hermann Graf Von Pückler
• Political conflict and recovery of cultural heritage in Palestine
  Suad Amiry and Khaldun Bshara
• Armed conflict and culture change in Chiapas, Mexico
  Valerie Magar
• The restoration of the temple of the tooth Relic in Kandy, Sri Lanka: a post-conflict cultural response to loss of identity
  Gamini Wijesuriya
• Armed conflicts, peace culture and protection of cultural heritage in West Africa
  Boureima Tiékoroni Diamitani
• Promoting cultural heritage in a postwar environment: the Côte d’ivoire
  Hortense Zagbayou
• Promoting cultural heritage in postwar recovery: El Salvador
  Héctor Ismael Sermeño

updated on: 17 October, 2007