The UNESCO Chair Professor Ana Filipa Vrdoljak was pleased to be invited as a panelist for the discussion on protection of cultural property under the 1954 Hague Convention and 1999 Second Protocol with a focus on Ukraine as part of the conference on ‘Protecting cultural heritage and countering cultural erasure in armed conflict: New challenges and experience of Ukraine’ on 4-5 July 2024 in Kyiv Ukraine.
Other panelists included Ms Lina Doroshenki, Head Department of Cultural Heritage of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, Ms Anna Sidorenko, Head of Cultural Heritage Protection Treaties Unit, UNESCO, Ms Oksana Banoshenko, Head of the Civil-Military Cooperation Office of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Dr Erik Kleijn, Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict Ukraine Focal Point, Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency.
The event was organized by the Crimean Institute for Strategic Studies, with the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture and funded by USAID.
