Contents: Foreword / Karima Bennoune
Introduction / Fiana Gantheret
Part I. Peace: The right to art
Section 1.1 right to culture: Contemporary issues
1. Legal framework: Is there a right to art? / Nolwenn Guibert
2. The human rights of artists: What did the pandemic teach us? / Elsa Stamatopoulou
Section 1.2 right to artistic expression
3. Dancing in dialogue: The notion of dance in politically fragile contexts / Rose Martin and Shyrine Ziadeh
4. Progressive autonomy of artistic freedom in international law: The contribution of the UN in promoting new economic, social, and cultural rights-based approaches / Laurence Cuny
Section 1.3 art and social justice
5. Freedom and the archive / Germaine Ingram and Toni Shapiro-Phim
Part II. Conflict(s)
Section 2.1 representation of conflict through art
6. Seeing and unseeing war in Afghanistan: War, trauma and contestation of the human rights frame / Henry Redwood and Hannah Partis-Jennings
7. The forensification of propaganda in epic poetry and serb leadership cases at the icty / Predrag Dojcinovic
Section 2.2 art as a catalyst for change in conflict
8. War on war! Artful weapons in times of war and conflict / Bernadette Buckley
9. Cultural diplomacy: The theory and the practice of a bridging concept / Roula El Derbas
Section 2.3 art: A target of conflict
10. Preserving and protecting cultural property, art, and antiquities during conflict: Recent experiences in Syria, iraq, and libya / Michael Danti
Part III. Post-conflict approaches
Section 3.1 art in non-judiciary transitional justice mechanisms
11. Art, truth, reconciliation and resistance: Reaching out in sierra leone and Canada / Rachel Kerr
12. Take me to court: Museum-making and transitional justice in colombia / Sofia N. Gonzalez-Ayala and Cristina Lleras
Section 3.2 international criminal justice and art
13. Artistic strategies by and about the international criminal court / Sofia Stolk
14. Reparations for cultural heritage destruction at the ICC and the limits of human rights / Marina Lostal
Section 3.3 restitution of cultural property
15. Restitution of wwii cultural property: Philosophical and legal approach / Kamil Zeidler and Agnieszka Plata
16. The return of the cultural objects displaced during the colonial era: An overview of solutions, challenges and misgivings from the perspective of international law / Alessandro Chechi
Conclusion: Universality, dignity, and the five great elements 346 marina aksenova
Index.