Preparación del patrimonio cultural de la Tierra para el riesgo de un conflicto armadodocumentación y registro para su protección

Resumen

Architectural heritage and cultural property are usually affected by a number of threats. One of the most recurring problems is armed conflict. In fact, previous work to the outbreak of war is key to its protection, and more specifically the documentation and registration of cultural property may go a long way towards boosting its protection. From this standpoint, this communication aims to analyse how the most important international instruments in the field address this situation through the adoption of preventive measures. Reference will be made to the specific articles contained in some of them referring to the importance of documenting and recording the local cultural heritage when facing a high-risk situation. To make things worse, over the last few years many inventories of museums have been destroyed, complicating further the possibility of recovering some of those cultural objects. In order to prevent information on cultural heritage from being lost, a proposal is presented on the idea of creating an interconnected global digitized system of classification and registration of cultural heritage shared among countries.