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Peter Stone

Peter Stone is the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle, Chair of the UK Committee of the Blue Shield, and Vice President of the international Blue Shield.  In 2003 Peter was advisor to the UK’s Ministry of Defence regarding the identification and protection of the archaeological cultural heritage in Iraq. He has remained active in working with the military to refine attitudes and develop processes for the better protection of cultural property in times of conflict. He has written extensively on this topic including co-editing, with Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq (2008) and editing Cultural Heritage, Ethics and the Military (2011). His article ‘The 4 Tier approach’ in The British Army Review led directly to the establishment of a Cultural Property Protection (CPP) Working Group in the Army which has led to the creation of a new CPP Unit in UK forces to become operational in 2019/20.