Does the International Trafficking of Cultural Heritage Really Fuel Military Conflicts?
Pierre Losson
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2017, vol. 40, issue 6, 484-495
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General media outlets are increasingly arguing that the looting of cultural heritage artifacts contributes to the funding of terrorist groups such as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). This article reexamines this claim in light of the political science literature on internal conflicts duration. While we do know that armed conflicts contribute to an increase of looting activities in the territories at war, it is still too early to generalize the ISIS case and conclude that these activities contribute to significantly funding armed non-state actors and to prolonging internal armed conflicts. However, establishing this link may add political weight to archeologists' and art historians' efforts to curb the international trafficking of looted objects.
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2016.1221255
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