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dc.contributor.advisorBraithwaite, Jessica Mavesen
dc.contributor.authorNielsen, Beatrice Helena Date
dc.creatorNielsen, Beatrice Helena Dateen
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-05T22:26:11Zen
dc.date.available2015-10-05T22:26:11Zen
dc.date.issued2015en
dc.identifier.citationNielsen, Beatrice Helena Date. (2015). War on Culture: The Destruction of Cultural Property During Civil Wars (Bachelor's thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA).
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/579303en
dc.description.abstractActs of violence against civilians during conflict is a topic that has been examined increasingly in the literature on civil war. However, a systematic study on the destruction of cultural and religious sites as a strategic means to achieve territorial control has not yet been explored. I examine this aspect of civilian targeting in this project, and I argue that in many cases, combatants use cultural property as a tool to gain territory, coerce civilians, public perception, and degrade the social fabric of a given religion or population. In preliminary research, I have observed that destruction of a population‘s cultural property indicates and precurses a willingness to destroy human lives. Through a cross-national empirical analysis of civil wars in Iraq and Syria after 1990, I anticipate that the destruction of culturally significant objects and sites is not collateral damage during civil war, but rather intentional actions through which combatants achieve and exert power.
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.en
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dc.titleWar on Culture: The Destruction of Cultural Property During Civil Warsen_US
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dc.typeElectronic Thesisen
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizonaen
thesis.degree.levelbachelorsen
thesis.degree.disciplineHonors Collegeen
thesis.degree.disciplineGeographyen
thesis.degree.nameB.A.en
refterms.dateFOA2018-06-27T23:32:11Z
html.description.abstractActs of violence against civilians during conflict is a topic that has been examined increasingly in the literature on civil war. However, a systematic study on the destruction of cultural and religious sites as a strategic means to achieve territorial control has not yet been explored. I examine this aspect of civilian targeting in this project, and I argue that in many cases, combatants use cultural property as a tool to gain territory, coerce civilians, public perception, and degrade the social fabric of a given religion or population. In preliminary research, I have observed that destruction of a population‘s cultural property indicates and precurses a willingness to destroy human lives. Through a cross-national empirical analysis of civil wars in Iraq and Syria after 1990, I anticipate that the destruction of culturally significant objects and sites is not collateral damage during civil war, but rather intentional actions through which combatants achieve and exert power.


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