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Blue Shield 25th Anniversary Conference

25th Anniversary Conference! On 14th and 15th December, Blue Shield International hosted their 25th anniversary conference, celebrating 25 years of protecting heritage in conflicts, disasters and crisis around the world, and looking forward to our aspirations for the future. Registration has now closed and talks will be online shortly. We are delighted to open our [...]

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This year the Blue Shield is 25! We’re inviting you to join us in raising awareness of the importance of blue shields by nominating your favourite blue shield! The blue shield is the symbol placed on cultural property “of great importance” (under article 1 of the 1954 Hague Convention) to show that it should be [...]

Panel: The Creation of the Blue Shield

Anniversary , Events

Panel Discussion The creation of the Blue Shield, 6 June 1996 with the founding signatories of the Blue Shield and the first President of the Association This year the Blue Shield is celebrating our 25th anniversary! We’re starting our anniversary celebrations with a panel discussion with the four people who founded Blue Shield on 6 [...]

Anniversary Communication Pack

Anniversary

Looking forward to looking back This year, Blue Shield is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and the coming six months will be filled with events that mark our work as a leading heritage NGO committed to the protection of the world’s tangible and intangible cultural property, when threatened by conflict and natural or human-made disaster. The [...]

This year the Blue Shield is 25!

Anniversary , Article

About our Anniversary! When fighting broke out in former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s “the reaction of the professional community was uncoordinated and inefficient. For example, multiple missions were mounted to Sarajevo, and while doubtless helpful in showing solidarity with professional colleagues there, these were generally carried out in ignorance of each other, and valuable [...]

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