The U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield is holding a meeting that is free and open to the public on March 9-10, in the Lecture Hall of the S. Dillon Ripley Center located at the Smithsonian Institution.
The focus of the meeting will be how the 2003 looting of the Iraq Museum changed the face of cultural property protection and what still needs to change.
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