Understanding Rights Practices in the World Heritage System
Understanding Rights Practices in the World Heritage System: Lessons from the Asia Pacific
This international research project, coordinated by the University of Lucerne, addresses a major knowledge gap in the international governance field, namely how and under what conditions human rights are perceived and implemented in the World Heritage system. It links key players in the World Heritage system, specifically the Advisory Bodies IUCN and ICOMOS, with research colleagues in Switzerland, Nepal, Vietnam, the Philippines and Australia in order to craft the building blocks for informed policy discussions on human rights and World Heritage at national, regional and global levels building on field realities in the Asia-Pacific region.
Duration: 2014 – 2016 (start mid-September, 2014)
Institutional partners: IUCN, ICOMOS, ICOMOS Norway
Main funding body: SNIS, http://www.snis.ch/project_understanding-rights-practices-world-heritage-system-lessons-asia-pacific
For further information: peter.larsen@unilu.ch
Project Team:
Peter Bille Larsen, Coordinator
Bettina Beer, Co-Coordinator
Alexander Morawa, Legal review Coordinator
Country-teams:
Australia:
Ian Liley, web link University of Queensland, http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/344
Kristal Buckley, Deakin University,
http://www.deakin.edu.au/alfred-deakin-research-institute/people.php?contact_id=616&style=7
Nepal:
Sudarshan Tiwari
Hans Christie Bjønness
http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/hans.c.bjonness
Pranita Shrestha,
Vietnam:
Peter Bille Larsen
Tran Chi Trung, cres.vnu.edu.vn/
Philippines:
Bettina Beer
Malot Ingel
International partners:
Tim Badman, IUCN
Kristal Buckley, ICOMOS
Gonzalo Oviedo, IUCN
Amund Sinding-Larsen, ICOMOS Norway