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Military CPP reports and documents

In recent years, a number of military manuals and documents relating to cultural property protection have been released. Those which are available online, or which we have permission to share, are here.

CDEF Division of Doctrine. (2015) Handbook on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. PFT 5.3.2 (EMP 50.655).
Available at: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/pdf/EMP-EN-Edition2015.pdf
Berends, J, & Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence. (CCOE). 2020. Cultural Property Protection Makes Sense: A Way to Improve Your Mission. Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence.
Available at: https://www.cimic-coe.org/publications/ccoe-publications/makes-sense-series/
Foliant, Y, & Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence. (CCOE). 2015. Cultural Property Protection Makes Sense: A Way to Improve Your Mission. (1st Edition) Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence.
Available at: https://www.cimic-coe.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CPP-Makes-Sense-final-version-29-10-15.pdf
NATO. 2012. Cultural property protection in the Operations planning process.CPP Factsheet.
Available at: http://www.jallc.nato.int/products/docs/factsheet_cpp.pdf
O’Keefe, R., Péron, C., Musayev, T., & Ferrari, G. (2016) Protection of Cultural Property Military Manual. UNESCO and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law.
Available at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002466/246633e.pdf
Rosén, F. (2017). NATO and Cultural Property. Embracing New Challenges in the Era of Identity Wars. Nordic Centre for Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict, and the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme.
Rush, Laurie. (n.d.) Cultural Property Protection as a Force Multiplier: Implementation For All Phases of a Military Operation.
Several of these document use NATOs crisis management process as a framework for CPP.

NATO have also released two You-Tube videos of their work protecting cultural heritage in Libya:
NATO and Libya - Cultural heritage in times of unrest (Part 1/2)
NATO and Libya - Cultural heritage in times of unrest (Part 2/2)

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