Transnational working and the World Heritage Convention
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2017-11-11

The World Heritage Convention states that it is the duty of member states to cooperate to protect heritage of Outstanding Universal Value. International protection of the world cultural and natural heritage is said to require the establishment of a system of international cooperation to support member states in their efforts to conserve and identify that heritage, organised on a permanent basis and in accordance with modern scientific methods.
The Convention sees this primarily as a matter of cooperation between governments and there is, indeed, a system to achieve this based on the work with member states of the advisory bodies to the Convention, ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN, and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Around this basic system has developed a web of different forms and means of cooperation and mutual assistance. This includes not just work between two countries but also multilateral projects with many partners, and in the last decade joint working to create World Heritage properties located in several countries.

Christopher Young, Christopher Young Heritage Consultancy