Cori Wegener, founding President of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, has rejoined the Board of Directors. As President she helped to lead the successful lobbying effort for the 2009 U.S. Senate ratification of the 1954 Hague Conventional for the Protection of Culture Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Currently she is the Director of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative and Cultural Heritage Preservation Officer at the Smithsonian Institution.
Brian Daniels is Director of Research and Programs for the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. His research centers around conflict, cultural loss, and human rights violations; community-based approaches to cultural heritage preservation; and indigenous rights and recognition. He leads the Conflict Culture Research Network which is focused on the study of intentional cultural destruction.
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July 24, 2025
As violence continues in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, authorities have taken measures to safeguard the city's art collection inside Le Centre d'Art, one of the oldest art institutions in the Caribbean. The museum has been threatened [...]
July 22, 2025
The United States of America has announced today that it will withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The withdrawal will take effect on December 31, 2026. More information can be found [...]
June 24, 2025
The U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield would like to thank all those who attended and expressed great interest in our recent webinar, "Introduction to Cultural Property Protection." On Wednesday, June 18th, Dr. Laurie Rush presented [...]
