Abstract

For the past four decades, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a central, two-fold role in the resolution of disputes concerning cultural property allegedly stolen or illegally removed from its country of origin. First, UNESCO's standard-setting activity in the fight against the illicit traffic of cultural goods has contributed to the harmonisation of the legal framework for disputes on the recovery of cultural property. Second, UNESCO has created an important forum for the amicable resolution of such disputes. One of UNESCO's ...