The US Army’s “Monuments Men and Women” in the Protection of Cultural Property during Natural Disaster

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this poster, we outline the recent cultural property protection (CPP) work of the US Army’s “Monuments Men and Women” (Military Governance Specialist 38G/6V) in response to natural disaster events. The poster will discuss the US Army’s obligations under the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Case of Armed Conflict, and other enabling treaties, policy, and doctrine, as a pathway to conduct cultural property protection as an element of US Army Disaster Response Operations. We will illustrate this humanitarian support function with recent case studies in which “Monuments Officers” have conducted this work in the US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), US Central Command (USCENTCOM), and US Africa Command (USAFRICOM). We conclude with the ongoing work of the US Army’s “Monuments Men and Women,” and the important role of cultural property protection (CPP) in a military context.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37551.0