The Specialised Course offers professional, legal, social, scientific, and academic perspectives through live webinars, group discussions, dynamic case studies, individual readings, and practical exercises. The faculty is composed of leading scholars and academics from AUR and other universities, as well as international legal experts from the United Nations system, international and non-governmental organisations, and civil society.
The course curriculum includes the following topics:
- Legal frameworks for the protection of cultural property
- Conflict and decolonisation – the legacy of empires
- Understanding criminal trafficking networks and countering looting
- The link between organised crime and terrorism: cultural property as a tool and funding source
- Armed conflict and the role of the military in protecting cultural heritage
- Protecting museums and heritage sites
- Understanding the psychology and motives of looters, traffickers and dealers and Other Supply Chain Actors
- Operational and law enforcement approaches to preventing and countering illicit trafficking of cultural property
- Protecting Cultural Heritage at War: a study case
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