Introduction : cultural heritage and armed conflict : preserving art while protecting life / Frederik Rosén -- I. The value of cultural heritage -- Preserving valuable objects and sites, in times of war and at other times / Derek Gillman -- The "cultural turn" and the reconstruction of heritage / Helen Frowe and Derek Matravers -- Mission impossible : weighing the protection of cultural property against human lives / Frederik Rosén -- Weaponizing culture : a limited defense of the destruction of cultural heritage in war / Duncan Macintosh -- The concept of cultural genocide / Martin Hamilton -- II. Legal and security aspects of cultural heritage preservation -- Combatting illicit trade in cultural objects to defend peace and security / Kristin Hausler and Andrzej Jakubowski -- Cultural property protection in the context of counter-terrorist financing : an emerging legal paradigm in the United States / Ricardo A. St. Hilaire -- Non-party obligations underlying the 1954 Hague Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict, Protocol II / Elizabeth Varner -- The International Criminal Court and cultural property : what is the crime? / Mark A. Drumbl -- Training for cultural property protection / Laurie W. Rush -- III. Healing the past : repatriation of stolen art and culture -- Wartime loot in American museums : lessons from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Victoria Reed -- Nazi-looting and internal and external colonial plundering : differences in responses / Jos van Beurden -- Syrian and Iraqi opinion on protecting, promoting and reconstructing heritage after the Islamic State / Benjamin Isakhan and James Barry -- The geopolitical context of cultural heritage destruction / Carsten Paludan-Müller.