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Heritage and Peacebuilding
Diana Walters
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Description for Heritage and Peacebuilding
Hardback. Case-studies of whether and how heritage can be used to bring about reconciliation. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GM; GTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
This volume explores one of the most critical issues of our time: whether heritage can contribute to a more peaceful society and future. It reflects a core belief that heritage can provide solutions to reconciling peoples and demonstrates the amount of significant work being carried out internationally. Based round the core themes of new and emerging ideas around heritage and peace, heritage and peace-building in practice, and heritage, peace-building and sites, the twenty contributions seek to raise perceptions and understanding of heritage-based peace-building practices. Responding to the emphasis placed on conflict, war and memorialization, they reflect exploratory yet significant steps ... Read more
This volume explores one of the most critical issues of our time: whether heritage can contribute to a more peaceful society and future. It reflects a core belief that heritage can provide solutions to reconciling peoples and demonstrates the amount of significant work being carried out internationally. Based round the core themes of new and emerging ideas around heritage and peace, heritage and peace-building in practice, and heritage, peace-building and sites, the twenty contributions seek to raise perceptions and understanding of heritage-based peace-building practices. Responding to the emphasis placed on conflict, war and memorialization, they reflect exploratory yet significant steps ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783272167
SKU
V9781783272167
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Ref
99-50
About Diana Walters
Peter Davis was born in August 1921. He joined an infantry unit after school, deferring a scholarship to Cambridge until after the War. In 1942 he joined the SAS. This book tells of his experiences in Sicily and Italy in 1942 and 1943. He went on to be promoted to Captain and following a skirmish in France in 1945, was ... Read more
Reviews for Heritage and Peacebuilding
The need for all cultural and educational institutions to respond to UNESCO's call for 'moral and intellectual solidarity' in support of peace and reconciliation at every level, from the local to global, becomes more evident by the day. This volume is hopeful, in that it contains inspiring accounts drawn from a vast network of cultural institutions and workers who are ... Read more