Carcano, Andrea --- "The criminalization and prosecution of attacks against cultural property" [2013] ELECD 1055; in Pocar, Fausto; Pedrazzi, Marco; Frulli, Micaela (eds), "War Crimes and the Conduct of Hostilities" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 78

Book Title: War Crimes and the Conduct of Hostilities

Editor(s): Pocar, Fausto; Pedrazzi, Marco; Frulli, Micaela

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781955918

Section: Chapter 5

Section Title: The criminalization and prosecution of attacks against cultural property

Author(s): Carcano, Andrea

Number of pages: 20

Abstract/Description:

Within the field of international humanitarian law (IHL) the term ‘cultural property’ designates a distinct category of property to which special protection is granted in both international and non-international armed conflicts. This form of protection supplements the ‘general’ protection that applies to civilian objects and covers destruction, willful damage and all forms of misappropriation. A number of IHL conventions protecting civilian property that could also be classified as cultural property were already applicable during the first half of the twentieth century, such that some instances of illegal attacks on protected objects could have been prosecuted in the aftermath of World War II.