Armed Conflict adopted at The Hague (Netherlands) in 1954, as a consequence to the massive destruction of the cultural heritage in the Second World War, is the first international treaty of a world-wide vocation dedicated exclusively to the protection of cultural heritage in the event of armed conflict.
The Convention was adopted together with a Protocol in order to prevent the export of cultural property from occupied territory, requiring the return of such property to the territory of the State from which it was removed.
The destruction of cultural property in the course of the conflicts that took place at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, highlighted the necessity for a number of improvements to be addressed in the implementation of the Hague Convention. A review of the Convention was initiated in 1991, resulting in the adoption of a Second Protocol to the Hague Convention in March 1999.Submissions from 2009
Proposal on a Research Institute for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflicts to the Ludwig Boltzmann Society (Austria), University of Vienna and Austrian Society for the Protection of Cultural Property
Submissions from 2007
Les normes internationales relative a la securite: les crimes internationaux, le terrorisme et la criminalite organisee, Hague Academy of International Law
Comments on the Hague Convention 2nd Protocol Committee Guidelines, International Council of Museums
Implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention and its Additional Protocols in Finland, Karim Peltonen
Guidelines and Criteria, The International Council on Archives
Submissions from 2004
Submissions from 2002
Provisional Programme for the International Experts Meeting on the Return of Cultural Properties and the Fight Against Their Illicit Trafficking, Republic of Korea
Submissions from 2000
Comments on the redrafted Principles Relating to Cultural Objects Displaced in Relation to the Second World War, Delegation of the Czech Republic
Submissions from 1999
Protection of Cultural Property, Hal Burman
Austrian Comments on the Draft Guidelines for the Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Delegation of Austria
Projet de principes directeurs pour l'application du Deuxieme Protocole relatif a la Convention de La Haye - Commentaires de la Belgique, Delegation of Belgium
Comments by Canada on the Draft Guidelines for Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Delegation of Canada
Draft Guidelines for the Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict: Comments - Finland, Delegation of Finland
Comments of Mexico to the Draft Guidelines for the Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Delegation of Mexico
Comments on the Draft Guidelines for the Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention, Delegation of Norway
Principes directeurs: prise de position, Delegation of Switzerland
Comments of the Greek Ministry of Culture regarding the Draft Guidelines for the Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Greek Ministry of Culture
Draft Guidelines for the Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Italian comments, Ministerodegli Affari Esteri
Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands at the opening of the Diplomatic Conference on the adoption of a Second Protocol to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of Armed Conflict, 15 March 1999, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Speech of the Netherlands Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs at the occasion of the opening of the Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of a Second Protocol to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Netherlands Secretary of State
Comments by the Republic of Cyprus on the Draft Guidelines for Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Cyprus
Cultural Property during the Second World War - The Situation with regard to Germany, Dr. Turner
UNESCO Summary of comments on the Preliminary Draft Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention, UNESCO
Submissions from 1998
The Preservation and Transmission System for the Intangible Cultural Properties of the Republic of Korea, Office of Cultural Properties