Report Cultural Heritage Protection, Development and Diplomacy: International Approaches

However, over the past few years evidence has emerged that States’ understanding of the applications and value of cultural heritage protection is undergoing a shift from being conceived of as a matter of purely for cultural policy making, to a more holistic view of the field that acknowledges its role in supporting a range of priority agendas across the development and diplomatic spaces. [...] Organisations and actors with vested interests in the cultural heritage protection field must embrace an ‘ecosystem model’, which necessitates the mapping and building of cross-sector networks to identify where gaps in provision lie and what resourcing/knowledge parties are able to bring to the cultural heritage protection agenda. [...] The cultural heritage protection community is broadly in agreement that cultural “Cultural heritage heritage protection initiatives should originate in the communities that they aim to protection should be deliver to, maintaining a people-centric approach to cultural heritage protection part of a renewed programming. [...] Actors should takes time to develop work together to agree on a ‘common language’ of shared indicators, and to prioritise robust evidence” and embed the collection and analysis of metrics, data and stories as part of their cultural heritage protection programming. [...] Across sectors there is hope that awareness of the cultural heritage protection agenda will continue to grow, and a shared commitment from this dialogue to continue these conversations and advocate for the value of cultural heritage protection within the global agenda.