Alesia Koush holds the chair and coordinates the related CAMNES public archeology projects
The new UNESCO Chair on Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property and Cultural Rights is launching at the University of Siena. This prestigious recognition comes at the end of a careful selection process that, in addition to UNESCO, involved the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and the Ministry of University and Research.
For a renewable four-year term, the UNESCO Chair on Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property and Cultural Rights will be led by Alesia Koush, head of public archaeology projects at CAMNES, and co-chair Massimo D’Auria, a lawyer and professor of private law in the Department of Business and Legal Studies.
The Chair is already active through two CAMNES projects:
The Etruscans are US: Culture, Rights, and Responsibilities
and
GAMOROD - Gird-i Ali Mawlan: Our Right, Our Duty, a Public Archaeology Project within the CAMNES Archaeological Project in Iraqi Kurdistan (CAPIK).
Here is the announcement from the University of Siena: https://www.unisi.it/unisilife/notizie/nuova-cattedra-unesco-su-traffico-illecito-e-diritti-culturali
Here is the UNESCO list of partners working against illicit trafficking: https://www.unesco.org/en/fight-illicit-trafficking/partners
The new Chair will work alongside The Journal of Cultural Heritage Crime, the first and only Italian cultural journalism publication dedicated to information for the protection of cultural heritage and combating crimes in the cultural sector.