Peter Stone: The Blue Shield

Peter Stone: The Blue Shield OBE (UNESCO / The Blue Shield / Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) The protection of cultural property in armed conflict and following natural and/or humanmade disasters (CPP) will never be achieved by the heritage community shouting that CPP must be taken seriously by the political, military and humanitarian communities because of its heritage importance alone. We need to show the relevance and importance of good CPP activity to all of these communities in the delivery of their own aims and missions. This presentation introduces the work of the international NGO, the Blue Shield, which is committed to working with these communities, encouraging them to see the relevance and importance of CPP to their disparate agendas. Currently, the Blue Shield comprises an international Board and Secretariat, presently based at and funded by Newcastle University through its UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection & Peace, and together referred to as ‘Blue Shield International (BSI)’, and 28 national committees (https://theblueshield.org/). Our primary framework is the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols, but the organisation works with the broader context of UN Security Council Resolutions (e.g. 2199, 2347, and 2368) and UNESCO’s cultural conventions and broader cultural protection strategy (e.g. the 2003 UNESCO Declaration Concerning the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage). It is also informed by international initiatives regarding natural/human-made disaster such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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