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preservation helps to rebuild broken communities, re-establish

their identities, and link their past with their present and future.

A-Protection of Cultural Property in War Time

1-The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural

Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

The Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the

Event of Armed Conflict was made at The Hague (Netherlands)

on 14th May 1954. This Convention is the only universal legal

instrument in this field. The Convention, which came about as a

consequence to the massive destruction of cultural property in the

Second World War, reflected, to some extent, the cultural

internationalism perspective. It was considered important to set

out clear measures for a system of general and special protection

of cultural property, and for the first time, the Common Heritage

of Mankind principle was proclaimed in the Preamble of the

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