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
• Foliant, Y, & Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence. (CCOE). 2015. Cultural Property Protection Makes Sense: A Way to Improve Your Mission. 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)