Save the Date: USCBS Annual Meeting & Conference
Save the Date! Please join the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield on Friday, March 1st for its Annual Meeting and a celebratory conference at Columbia [...]
Upcoming Event: “Protecting Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict”
On February 22nd, The Magnes Collection at the University of California, Berkeley presents "Protecting Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict," a special lecture with Patty Gerstenblith, President [...]
Interview with Blue Shield President Peter Stone in the Harvard International Review
On January 17, 2024, a new interview with Peter Stone, President of Blue Shield, was published in the Harvard International Review. Titled "On Preemptive Cultural Property [...]
Kyiv Museums Receive Special Equipment to Protect Cultural Heritage
On Friday, October 6, the Kyiv City State Administration announced that the twelve municipal museums in Kyiv had received special equipment as part of a joint [...]
Blue Shield mourns loss of Blue Shield Senegal President
The Blue Shield is mourning the loss of Mr. Babacar Ndiaye (1951-2023), a passionate advocate of cultural heritage protection who served as President of the Senegalese [...]
USCBS Statement on the Earthquake in Morocco and Flooding in Libya
This past week has been an immensely difficult one for much of North Africa. On Friday, September 8th, the strongest earthquake of the past century struck [...]
Blue Shield International’s Report Documents Putin’s Potential Violations of Cultural Property Law
On September 13, 2023, The Art Newspaper reported that a new briefing prepared by Blue Shield International for the European Union Advisory Mission asserts that President Vladimir Putin [...]
USCBS Welcomes New Executive Director
The U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield is pleased to welcome a new Executive Director to our team! Dr. Rachel Dewan joins us from southeast Alaska [...]
Sudan’s Cultural Heritage at Risk in Civil War
"I came here as soon as I could,” archaeologist Mahmoud Suleiman says. “I couldn’t just go and leave our heritage without protection.” A terrible civil war [...]
