Second Webinar CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PEOPLE IN THE POST-TRAUMA PROCESSES: BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH INTEGRATED RECONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY OF HERITAGE

In the framework of the coming Conference Integrated Reconstruction and Post-Trauma Impact on Communities and Socio-Economic Aspects of Recovery 9 March 2021, 11:00 – 15:00 (CET)

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Photo: Mosul, Iraq © Mounir Bouchenaki Second Webinar CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PEOPLE IN THE POST-TRAUMA PROCESSES: BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH INTEGRATED RECONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY OF HERITAGE In the framework of the coming Conference Integrated Reconstruction and Post-Trauma Impact on Communities and Socio-Economic Aspects of Recovery

9 March 2021, 11:00 – 15:00 (CET) Photo: Mosul, Iraq © Mounir Bouchenaki

CONCEPT OF THE WEBINAR

The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) in Manama, Bahrain, intends to organize an international Conference on integrated post-disaster reconstruction of cultural heritage – social, economic and psychological aspects of recovery.

The Conference was initially planned to take place in April 2020. It is postponed for 2021 when the conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic allow for such a meeting in a real space. The program of the Conference includes a wide range of prominent experts and researchers who have already submitted their contributions for the book of proceedings.

Heritage reconstruction and recovery has been marked by several challenges, the majority of which are linked with the complexity of the social and economic environments caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the health protection measures that have been enacted. The communities that have already suffered significant economic ruination and social trauma are now faced with greater distress that affects all areas of their lives, including their heritage. The response to these situations have resulted in newly focused key issues in the field of heritage management, innovative methods, and enlarged field of research and body of knowledge.

We have decided to expand the initial scope of the Conference and make it inclusive for the discourse on emerging issues and new lessons learned in 2020 by organizing several webinars in the framework of the Conference.

The first webinar Heritage and People - Building Resilience in the Superimposed Trauma took place on 21 December 2020. It brought insightful and critical outcomes that will be presented at the next World Heritage Committee Meeting. The speakers were Mechtild Rössler (UNESCO WHC); Maja Kominko (ALIPH), Shadia Touqan (ARC-WH), Jonathan Edward Nsubuga (Uganda); Samira Al- Shawesh (Yemen) and Howayda Al Harithy (Lebanon). Building upon the conclusions of the first webinar, ARC-WH will proceed with the second webinar CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PEOPLE IN THE POST-TRAUMA PROCESSES: BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH INTEGRATED RECONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY OF HERITAGE. It will focus on the importance of combining empirical and theoretical knowledge that is ever-evolving through the need to develop synergy of global and local responses to the persisting occurrences of heritage destruction and social trauma.

The webinar CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PEOPLE IN THE POST-TRAUMA PROCESSES: BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH INTEGRATED RECONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY OF HERITAGE will be organized in two panels:

Addressing the topic of the “Coming to Terms with the Past Conflict, Socio-Economic Distress through Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage and Post-Trauma Recovery”, speakers in the first panel will share lessons learned through the ongoing heritage reconstruction and recovery projects. The performance of the lament for the House of Wonders by Mohamed Khalef Al-Ghassany, Zanzibari poet in Kiswahili - written as an artistic reflection of people’s connection with the heritage site after the partial collapse of the central component of the Stone Town of Zanzibar (inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000) - will be followed by presentations of specific cases by Dr. Abdul Shariff (Stone Town, Zanzibar); Dr. Mounir Bouchenaki (Angkor, Cambodia); Dr. Maria Rita Acetoso, (Mosul, Iraq). All three cases, each in a different phase of progress, represent examples of international actions concerted with strong local and national commitment to revive community through reconstruction and heritage recovery.

The second panel, titled “Specific local contexts as agents of the global initiatives for integrated post-trauma reconstruction and recovery of cultural heritage”, is designed to present and discuss how the inherence of the diversities of cultural, historical, political, social and economic contexts in conservation challenges informs the initiatives to build a global framework capable for an appropriate response to the damage or loss of cultural heritage. The speakers will be Ms. Marie-Laure Lavenir (Director General, ICOMOS International); Dr. Rohit Jigyasu (Project Manager, ICCROM); Ms. Bénédicte de Montlaur (President and CEO of WMF).

The central focus of this webinar is an exchange of ideas and knowledge between communities, decision-makers and experts with a common aim to build the resilience of people through the recovery of their cultural heritage.

Language The webinar will be conducted in English. Arabic Interpretation will be available.

Registration Registration in the webinar is free of charge. Kindly register using the following link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4WnLcuvQTIOuK3X8lRqWgw

Second Webinar CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PEOPLE IN THE POST-TRAUMA PROCESSES: BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH INTEGRATED RECONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY OF HERITAGE In the framework of the coming conference Integrated Reconstruction and Post-Trauma Impact on Communities and Socio-Economic Aspects of Recovery

9 March 2021, 11:00 – 15:00 (CET)

PROGRAM OPENING – Tuesday 9 March, 2021

11.00 - 11.30 ARC-WH, Opening address DR AMRA HADŽIMUHAMEDOVIĆ, Director of the Center for Cultural Heritage, International Forum Bosnia Introductory presentation: Cultural Heritage and People in the Post-Trauma Processes: Building Resilience through Integrated Reconstruction and Recovery of Heritage

MR. MOHAMED KHALEF GHASSANY, Zanzibari poet in Kiswahili Wa Daima: A Tribute to the House of Wonders

PANEL 1: C O M I N G T O T E R M S W I T H T H E P A S T C O N F L I C T A N D S O C O - E C O N O M I C D I S T R E S S T H R O U G H RECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND POST-TRAUMA RECOVERY 11.30 - 12.30 DR ABDUL SHERIFF, Former Professor, University of Dar es Salaam, and Principal Curator of Zanzibar Museums, including the House of Wonders Partial Collapse of the House of Wonders, Public Discourse on its Future Recovery as a World Heritage Site, and National Reconciliation in Zanzibar DR MOUNIR BOUCHENAKI, Special advisor to Director General, UNESCO, Special advisor to Director General, ICCROM Political Will in Strategic and Integrated Reconstruction: The case of Angkor, Cambodia DR MARIA RITA ACETOSO, Senior Project Manager at the UNESCO Office for Iraq Reviving the Spirit of Mosul: the reconstruction of cultural landmarks as a tool to foster reconciliation in post-conflict recovery

Q&A

12.30 - 13.30 Break PANEL 2: S P E C I F I C L O C A L C O N T E X T S A S A G E N T S O F T H E G L O B A L I N I T I A T I V E S F O R I N T E G R A T E D P O S T - TRAUMA RECONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE 13.30 - 14.30 MS. MARIE-LAURE LAVENIR, Director General, ICOMOS International Learning from experience in recovery and reconstruction: ICOMOS and ICCROM analysis of case studies

DR ROHIT JIGYASU, Project Manager, Urban Heritage, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, Program Unit, ICCROM ICCROM’s initiatives for building resilience through post-trauma reconstruction and recovery of cultural heritage

MS. BÉNÉDICTE DE MONTLAUR, President and Chief Officer of World Monuments Fund (WMF) Lessons from the Field: Working with Communities in Post-disaster Areas Q&A

WRAP-UP

14.40 - 15.00 DR AMRA HADŽIMUHAMEDOVIĆ, Concluding remarks

Photo: Mosul, Iraq © UNESCO_Nuria Roca Ruiz Second Webinar CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PEOPLE IN THE POST-TRAUMA PROCESSES: BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH INTEGRATED RECONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY OF HERITAGE In the framework of the coming conference Integrated Reconstruction and Post-Trauma Impact on Communities and Socio-Economic Aspects of Recovery

9 March 2021, 11:00 – 15:00 (CET)

SPEAKERS AMRA HADŽIMUHAMEDOVIĆ Dr. Amra Hadžimuhamedović is director of the Centre for Cultural Heritage, International Forum Bosnia and the ARC-WH consultant for the editing activities of the Conference on Integrated Reconstruction and Post-Trauma Impact on Communities and Socio-economic Aspects of Recovery. At the position of Commissioner to preserve National Monuments, she was responsible for integration of cultural heritage into post-war recovery of Bosnia (2001-2016). She has taught History of Architecture and Architectural Conservation at the International University of (2010-2019), guest-lectured on heritage in war and post-war, on theory and philosophy of conservation across the world, worked on the people-centred conservation projects, and published widely, including the book Heritage, War, and Peace.

MOHAMED KHALEF AL GHASSANY Mr. Mohamed Khalef Al Ghassany, is a contemporary Kiswahili poet, multimedia journalist and novelist, born in Zanzibar. He is working with the Swahili Servicesof Deutsche Welle in Germany, where he moved from Zanzibar since 2010. He has so far published seven books, Mohamed Khalef Ghassany is the award winner of African Literature in Kiswahili honored by the Mabati-Cornell Prize.

ABDUL SHERIFF Dr. Abdul Sheriff is a Zanzibari scholar who attained his degrees in geography and in history at the University of California, Los Angeles while he obtained his PhD at SOAS, at the University of London for PhD. He was Professor of history at University of Dar es Salaam; assistant to Editor of Khaleej Times in Dubai; Principal Curator of Zanzibar Museums, including of Museum of Zanzibar & the Swahili Coast in the HoW; Executive Director of Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute; and delegate to the Tanzanian Constituent Assembly in 2014, before retiring. He has published a number of authored or edited books on history and culture of Zanzibar, including an edited volume History & Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town.

BÉNÉDICTE DE MONTLAUR Ms. Bénédicte de Montlaur is President and CEO of World Monuments Fund (WMF), a private nonprofit organization dedicated to cultural heritage preservation around the world. Prior to joining WMF, Montlaur spent two decades working as a senior diplomat for in positions including Deputy Assistant Secretary for North and UN Security Council Negotiator on Africa and the Middle East. She most recently served as Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States. Montlaur studied sociology and Arabic at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and public affairs at Sciences Po, .

Photo provided by Dr Abdul Sheriff SPEAKERS

MOUNIR BOUCHENAKI Dr. Mounir Bouchenaki is Advisor to the UNESCO Director General and to the ICCROM Director General. He was elected Director General of ICCROM (2005-2011), which followed his long career at UNESCO, where he had been Assistant Director General for Culture, Director of the Division of Cultural Heritage, and Director of the World Heritage Center. He contributed to the launching of The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage in Bahrain (2013 -2017). Before joining UNESCO he served as a Director of Antiquities, Museums and Historic Monuments in . He holds a Ph.D. in archaeology and ancient history from Aix-en-Provence University, France. Inter alia, he has been a longstanding member of the international coordinating mechanism for the assistance provided by different countries and organizations for the safeguarding and development of the historic site of Angkor. Dr Bouchenaki published a number of books and articles, including the book Mutilated Heritage (2017).

MARIA RITA ACETOSO Dr. Maria Rita Acetoso is a Culture Specialist with more than 10 years of experiencein the field of tangible heritage management and cultural cooperation, at both national and international level. She received a PhD in Conservation of Cultural Heritage, a M.A.S. in Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage from the University of , and a M. Arch. from the University of Venice. She joined UNESCO in 2015, serving as Senior Project Manager in charge of coordinating the UNESCO’s initiatives for the protection and management of cultural physical resources first in and then in Iraq, with a focus on their role as tools for social cohesion and sustainable development. Currently, she leads the UAE funded Project for the reconstruction of historical landmarks in the Old City of Mosul.

MARIE-LAURE LAVENIR Ms. Marie-Laure Lavenir is Director General of ICOMOS, a unique non-governmental, not for profit international organization, committed to furthering the conservation of cultural heritage through its 11,000 members, heritage professionals in more than 110 countries. Her mission is to support and develop ICOMOS’s presence and engagement across the world, in particular as Advisory Body to the UNESCO World heritage Committee for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. Marie- Laure graduated from HEC and IEP Paris. After a starting in the banking and asset management industry, Marie-Laure Lavenir developed her career in the management of non-profit organizations and in fundraising. She had been Secretary General of a University Foundation until 2015 when she joined ICOMOS. As a consultant, she shares her experience with diverse cultural or educational institutions.

ROHIT JIGYASU Dr. Rohit Jigyasu is a conservation architect and risk management professional from India, currently working at ICCROM as Project Manager on Urban Heritage, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management. Rohit served as UNESCO Chair holder professor at the Institute for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, where he was instrumental in developing and teaching International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage. He was the elected President of ICOMOS-India from 2014-2018 and president of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness (ICORP). Rohit served as the Elected Member of the Executive Committee of ICOMOS since 2011 and was its Vice President from 2017-2020. Before joining ICCROM, Rohit has been working with several national and international organizations such as UNESCO, UNISDR, Getty Conservation Institute and World Bank for consultancy, research and training on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage.