Summer School:
Post Conflict Recovery of Cultural Heritage
Online Talks 5-9 June 2023
Rome Workshop 27-29 September 2023
Cultural Heritage is at Risk from Conflicts
Armed conflicts around the world have caused extensive damages to both tangible and intangible cultural heritages. Damages to historic buildings, including churches and museums due to ongoing war in Ukraine, historic and archaeological sites such as Aleppo Citadel and Palmyra in Syria and Al-Hadba’a Minaret in Mosul, Iraq and destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan are just a few examples of the damages sustained by heritage due to conflicts.
Objectives
The Summer School on Post Conflict recovery aims at building the capacity of heritage, disaster risk management professionals, public institutions, NGOs and donor organizations to engage effectively in the planning and implementation of heritage recovery projects following the armed conflicts. Through online talks, lectures, exercises and discussions during face-to-face workshop, the programme aims to familiarize the participants with the principles, tools and methodologies that will enable holistic, sustainable and resilience recovery of heritage, and mainstreaming it in the larger physical, social, economic and institutional recovery process. The project is based on the framework and experience of ICCROM’s heritage recovery programme that is currently underway in Mosul, Iraq.
ICCROM’s Heritage Recovery Programme in Mosul
ICCROM’s Heritage Recovery Programme in Mosul aims is to build the capacities of young and motivated Moslawis to actively contribute to the overall recovery progress currently taking place in Mosul.
The initiative is a result of collaboration with UNESCO, the Iraqi Government, and the University of Mosul that was made possible with the support of the United Arab Emirates, and the European Union.
The programme is divided into two tracks. Track 1 covers all aspects of urban heritage recovery, from context and situation analysis, significance and value assessment, documentation, planning, implementation, to monitoring.Theoretical lectures are coupled with intensive fieldwork exercises at buildings in old Mosul chosen for use as a case study for the students.
Track 2 was developed in the spirit of “building back better” and will give craft workers the opportunity to enhance their skills, taking into consideration affordability, sustainability, as well as the ground realities.