Being able to quantify the extent of conflict damage to heritage sites would be very relevant, says Ruther, who leads a project that creates digital models of African heritage sites.
According to an independent conflict damage assessment report commissioned by VICE News — the first of its kind into cluster munition attacks in eastern Ukraine — the rocket blast that killed DuPasquier outside his workplace, and wounded six more, was fired from the 9K57 Uragan multiple launch rocket system.
Lord Hannay says that the conflict damaged the UK's reputation abroad "quite a bit", but adds: "There is nobody who believes we would do anything like that again".
It is now clear, however, that some western politicians were far too credulous in accepting Georgia's account of the immediate circumstances that led to the conflict, damaging their own credibility in the process.
And that is how it turned out, though, perversely, not in the way Mr. Brown forecast: the conflict damaged Mr. Blair's standing and credibility irretrievably and he was forced to step down as prime minister in mid-2007.
Third, the criminal law deals in punishment in 'pain delivery' when what is needed is instead a process that will repair whatever harm was caused, reconcile the people involved in the conflict, and thus restore the relationships that the conflict damaged.
Aggressive conflict damages the opponents' relationship, leading to a loss of benefits afforded by the relationship, and results in post-conflict distress [19].
Armed conflict damages national health systems through destruction of infrastructure, reducing essential medical supplies, death and displacement of health workers, breakdown of health information systems, and reducing state leadership and governance capacity in all sectors [ 4- 8].
And when asked for comments about the events, people wrote about conflicts, damage to property and injuries from the police and participants that were never documented at the time of the event.
As it happens, I just recently finished catching up with the two seasons of "Strike Back" that aired on Cinemax in 2011 and 2012, and while that show is a much more straight-ahead action-adventure drama, it also has some interesting things to say about outsourced conflicts, damaged people and geopolitical dirty tricks.
The "trend of the times" is to avoid conflicts damaging to development and instead seek to build, in Zheng Bijian's words, "communities of interest on the basis of expanding on the convergence of interests" in areas ranging from open trade to financial stability and battling climate change.
