El patrimonio cultural en Siria e Iraq: desafíos y esperanzas

Abstract

Armed conflicts and civil wars have been accompanied with huge damage to cultural heritage and people´s memories; they have been systematically destroyed, appropriated and looted; besides with ethnic cleansing and demographic changes caused by the population´s flee from repression to safer regions. Compounding that, the international community has invested many efforts in post-war reconstruction but paid less attention to other previous stages such as using heritage for reconciliation between the fighting parties and resolution of conflict.This paper focuses expected using of heritage in Syria and Iraq, by studying how cultural heritage has the potential to influence the arrangement ceasefires and resolutions to conflict, protect human rights, and rehabilitate societies impacted by social and physical trauma. This has worked in various parts of the world where conflicts took place; however, we need a method that helps organize intervening activities to mitigate the violence in conflict, as well as identifies stakeholders and common factors that consider all parties’ interests. The heritage context can provide, in my opinion, such involvement of interveners to produce peace and bring fighting parties together based on their shared memories and common history in Syria and Iraq