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Title: A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace

Author : Lynn Meskell

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ISBN-10 : 36756305

ISBN-13 : 9780190648343

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A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace BY Lynn Meskell

Read Online and Download A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace. Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural understanding. Its mission was inspired by leading European intellectuals such as Henri Bergson, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, and Aldous and Julian Huxley. Often critiqued for its inherent Eurocentrism, UNESCO and its World Heritage program today remain embedded within modernist principles of "progress" and "development" and subscribe to the liberal principles of diplomacy and mutual tolerance. However, its mission to prevent conflict, destruction, and intolerance, while noble and much needed, increasingly falls short, as recent battles over the World Heritage sites of .

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