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This volume takes a fresh look at climate change as a threat to peace and its impacts on cultural heritage and cultural diversity. It proceeds under the assumption that the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage and cultural diversity may challenge sustainable global peace. As innovative feature, the interdisciplinary nexus between cultural heritage and peace is explicitly taken account of. Accordingly, corresponding threats on climate change and conflict on the one hand, and protection of cultural property and climate change on the other, are pulled together into one conceptual triang

On June 25, 2009, the UNESCO World Heritage committee took an unprecedented step: It stripped the Elbe Valley of its World Heritage status. The reason? A four-lane highway bridge crossing one of the most scenic spots in the valley. The decision not only deprives the region of income from tourism and federal aid, it is also an embarrassment for Germany, which has a proven track record of protecting its historic monuments. Adapted from the source document.

After two years of negotiations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted in its general conference of October 20, 2005 with an overwhelming majority the Convention on the Protection & Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. According to the author of this article, the convention is supposed to create conditions that contribute to the protection of cultural diversity within applicable law. This involves the question of opportunities for protection of cultural diversity under the framework of globalization & free trade. According to UNESCO Secretary General Koichiro Matsuura, the new decrees are UNESCO's contribution to (re)define the rules of globalization. References. A. Kallioinen

In 1986 the UN General Assembly passed its "Declaration on the Right to Development" (Res. 41/128). Since then many efforts have been made to implement that broad entitlement. The author analyzes the legal base of the declaration & the kind of obstacles forestalling its realization. These obstacles are as well outgrowths of different ideological approaches as of disputes over areas of application. The right to development is likely to become an entitlement to everything, it seems. Rendering an account of the UN measures taken since the early 1990s, the author also points out the aspects mostly criticized. In concluding, she nevertheless praises the right to development as a proven fundament of the North-South-dialogue. 5 References. Adapted from the source document.