Experienced cultural property lawyers, many of whom disagree over the merits of the Sotheby's case, agreed that the trip's high profile underscores the State Department's view that cultural heritage issues are a major part of public diplomacy.
David T. Killion, the American ambassador to Unesco, said the deal "represents a critical step forward toward depoliticizing Unesco, and signals a major shift toward a more constructive approach to cultural heritage issues".
Our programmes have been carefully tailored to focus on the Gulf and the Islamic World and as such they should greatly appeal to students whose interests relate to the cultural heritage issues of this region.
Several experts and activists said the United States had never viewed its own cultural patrimony as a priority because the country is relatively young, has long embraced the concept of free trade and has not historically focused on the cultural heritage issues of American Indians.
If passed, the FSF will encourage the FA to tighten its rules on heritage issues "so that a football club's playing name, badge, colours and so forth cannot be changed without proper consultation with that club's supporters, and that a club's media should use only those approved elements in communications and publicity".
If the first applications aimed to support IAQ management in household and public buildings, the methodology could be easily transposed to cultural heritage issues.
Chance Coughenour and Matthew Vincent are PhD students working for the Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH), an EU-funded project set up to apply new technology to cultural heritage issues.
Specific behavioral codes and cultural heritage issues are taken into account in developing certain schemes for competence levels in multinational companies.
