UNESCO-Debate 2016: World Heritage – Target or Treasure?

“… a special occasion on the afternoon of 29 September 2016, when the philosopher Stephan Sanders and
the archaeologist Sada Mire shared their vision of the painful topicality of Lucebert’s ‘everything valuable is defenceless’ with us – the deliberate destruction of what is sometimes centuries-old cultural heritage and the eagerness with which that is sometimes shown to the world.” Andree van Ess, UNESCO, The Netherlands