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Acre, Israel
2 December. The Director-General was invited to give the opening lecture at the Second UNESCO World Heritage Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural Heritage, 14-17 November, Acre, Israel.
Present were:
- Prof Michael Turner, UNESCO Chair in Urban Design and Conservation Studies
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
- Dr Elena Korka,
Hellenic Ministry for Culture, Greece
- Mr Giovanni Boccardi, UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- Mr Dinu Bumbaru, ICOMOS, Heritage Montreal, Canada
- Ms Cristina Menegazzi, ICOM
- Mr Kosh Prasad Acharya, Director General Department of Archaeology, Nepal
- Dr Alessandro Bianchi, General Secretariat, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italy
- Dr
Cacace Carlo, Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro,
Italy
- Prof Rohit Jigyasu, Indea, Resarch Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
- Prof
Kanefusa Masuda, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
- Dr Avi
Shapira, Director of the National Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness, Ministry of Infrastructure, Israel
- Prof
Yossef Hatzor, Ben Gurion University, Israel
- Dr Rivka Amit, Head, Engineering Geology & Geological Hazards Division, Israel
- Mr Kosh Prasad Acharya, Director General Department of Archaeology, Nepal
- Mr Ulise Ivan Ibanez Burga, Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Peru
- Mr Luciano Marchetti, Presidence of the Council Ministers, Department of
Civil Protection, Italy
- Mr Abdel Sami Abu Dayyeh, Department of Antiquities, Jordan
- Ms Anna Paolini, UNESCO Jordan
- Mr Hou Weidong, General Engineer, Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, China
- Mr Muhammad Juma, Assistance Director-General and Head of
Planning and Conservation Department, Tanzania
- Dr Avi Shapira, Director of the National Steering Committee for
Earthquake Preparedness, Ministry of Infrastructure, Israel
- Mr Muhammad Juma, Assistance Director-General and Head of Planing and Conservation Department,
Stone Town Conservation and Development Authority, Tanzania
- Mr Leonard Ahonon, Director General (Rtd), Gestionnaire du Site des Palais Royaux d'Abomey, Benin
- Mr Mohammed Mwenje Sosti,
Buildings Inspector National, Museums of Kenya, Kenya
- Ms
Margarita Kisternaya, Kizhi State Open-air Museum of History Architecture and Ethnography, Russia
- Dr Udi Galili, Israel Antiquities Authority
- Mr John Hurd, United Kingdom
- Mr Giora Solar, ICOMOS Israel representative
- Ms Eleni Oeconomopoulou, Architect, Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry for Culture
- Mr Mohammed Mwenje Sosti, Buildings Inspector National, Museums of Kenya
- Prof Claudio Modena, University of Padova, Department of Structural and Transportation Engineering, Italy
- Mr Amnon Bar-Or, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Mr Yong Hoon Jung, Preservation Technology Division Deputy Director, Cultural Heritage Administration, Korea
- Mr Jacques Neguer, Head of Art Conservation Section and Yael Alef, Architect conservator, Conservation Department, Israel Antiquities Authority
The group also visited the Riwaya Museum and the Peace Centre in Jerusalem |
