Intangible Cultural Heritage
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The Working Group will explore how best to ensure that intangible cultural heritage is most effectively engaged and safeguarded in an emergency.
Under UNESCO's 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Convention, provisions are made for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (also referred to as 'living heritage') in a wide range of emergency contexts. Its approach is supported by the operational principles and modalities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in emergencies, which were endorsed by the Intergovernmental Committee at its fourteenth session in 2019 (Decision 14.COM 13). In line with the 2003 Convention, the WG will promote a community-based approach which recognizes the primary role that communities play in identifying how their living heritage may be at risk and the measures needed to safeguard it, as well as how it might be best drawn upon to support resilience and recovery. |
Training for incoming global facilitators of the 2003 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention (Europe and North America), 2023. The workshop, attended by WG Chair Joy, equipped attendees with the knowledge and skills needed to support State Parties, NGOs, and communities in their safeguarding efforts. The workshop was organised by UNESCO’s Living Heritage Entity with the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe © UNESCO/Joy.
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MEMBERS
Charlotte Joy - CHAIRBIO
Dr Charlotte Joy is a social anthropologist who has worked in the field of cultural heritage protection for over fifteen years and has undertaken long-term fieldwork in Mali and at UNESCO in Paris. Charlotte has carried out research at the International Criminal Court (Al Mahdi) and has been an advisor to the Trust Fund for Victims. She is the author of ‘The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali: from UNESCO to Djenne’ (Routledge, 2012) and Heritage Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2020). In 2021, she was appointed Non-Executive Director (Culture Portfolio) to UNESCO's UK National Commission, advising HMG on the 1954 Hague Convention and its two Protocols, the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In 2023, she became part of UNESCO's Global Network of Facilitators of the 2003 Convention. |
Suzanna JoyBio
Suzanna Joy has been a member of UK Blue Shield since 2012, and Trustee since 2020. She is a cultural heritage consultant with nearly 30 years’ experience, having been based in Australia then the Uk and has worked in many places around the world. For the past 17 years Suzanna worked for the engineering company Arup, building and leading their Cultural Heritage and Historic Environment team. She worked on a number of natural disaster projects for Arup which included cultural heritage assessment and reconstruction masterplanning. Suzanna is an Army Reservist and is now an Officer with the UK Military’s Cultural Property Protection Unit where she works within the Uk to support UK forces and overseas with other nation’s civil and military CP specialists. Suzanna started her career working with Indigenous traditional owners in Australia and has an interest in the value of intangible and local community cultural heritage. |
John ChambersBIO
John Chambers is Chief Executive of the Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland), which is the professional and membership body for the archives, records management and archive conservation sector in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Prior to this role he was Executive Director of the Society of Archivists and has experience in the UK’s charity sector, having previously managed mental health, physical health and advice charities. The ARA provides the representative for the International Council on Archives to the UK Committee of the Blue Shield which is how he got involved. |
Elena Perez-AlvaroBio
Dr Elena Perez-Alvaro is a Lecturer at the Master of Cultural and Natural Heritage Management at UNIR University, Spain, and a Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She is also an Expert Member of the ICOMOS International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage, Expert Member of the ICOMOS International Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage, and part of the ICOMOS Sustainable Development Goals Working Group. She is also Chair of the Underwater Heritage Working Group of UK Blue Shield. Her main research is a holistic multidisciplinary study creating links between aspects of heritage, identity, and society, the past, and the future. She is the author of several articles in specialised journals and books in diverse fields. She has also published with Routledge the monography Underwater Cultural Heritage: Ethical Concepts and Practical Challenges. |
Nigel PollardBio
Nigel Pollard is an academic whose research focuses on treatment and perceptions of cultural heritage in the Second World War and the application of that historical experience to contemporary and future conflicts. Nigel has been a member of UK Blue Shield since 2012 Nigel is a professor in the Department of History, Heritage and Classics at Swansea University in Wales. He trained as an archaeologist, undertook fieldwork in Italy, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt and the UK and published on Roman Italy, Africa and the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. Since 2011 his main area of research has been the treatment of cultural heritage in the Second World War, especially Italy, and his monograph Bombing Pompeii: World Heritage and Military Necessity was published by The University of Michigan Press in 2020. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He was a member of the UK military Cultural Property Protection Working Group from 2015 to 2019, and subsequently contributed to the training of the UK military Cultural property Protection Unit. He participated in the consultation on the UK Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017. |
Fionnuala RogersBio
Fionnuala Rogers is an international art and cultural property lawyer and Chair of the UK Committee for the Blue Shield. She is also a member of the Blue Shield International Illegal Trade Working Group and also represented Blue Shield on the UK Government Illegal Trade Working Group, hosted by DCMS. Fionnuala has been a member of UK Blue Shield since 2015, and Chair since 2020. Fionnuala is also founder and director of Canvas Art Law, Trustee of the Arab British Centre, and founding Trustee of CHARD (Cultural Heritage at Risk Database). With over 12 years of experience in art, cultural property, and heritage, Fionnuala is a prominent advisor in international regulation and policy on heritage issues, assisting governments and policymakers in drafting and amending international legislation related to cultural property protection and illicit trafficking. She encourages compliance with international best practices and fosters cultural collaborations between state parties. Fionnuala has extensive experience in the Middle East region. |
Georgia Gould
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