A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace

A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace
Publisher
Oxford University Press
2018
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In 1945, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural understanding.  However, its mission to combat conflict, destruction, and intolerance, increasingly falls short as recent, much-publicized conflicts have underlined.