INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY IN PEACE SUPPORT OPERATIONS Including a field exercise Operation PALLAS ATHENE 19 – 23 June 2006 in Bregenz, Austria Organised by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence, Joint Command and Control Staff In co-operation with the Vorarlberg Provincial Military Command

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1. Introduction In the first half of 2006, the Federal Ministry of Defence (MoD) in co-operation with the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Cultural Affairs, the Austrian Federal Office for the Care of Monuments and the Austrian Society for the Protection of Cultural Property, hosts an International Workshop on the Protection of Cultural Property in Peace Support Operations. In this workshop the current situation of the protection of cultural property in Peace Support Operations will be presented and discussed. The objective of the workshop is to elaborate a paper on the principles of protecting cultural property in Peace Support Operations. Its aim is to sensitise the political and military decision-makers in charge of planning and conducting such operations, so that in the future all matters pertaining to the protection of cultural property receive adequate consideration in the preparation and planning phases, as well as in the execution phase in the area of operations.

2. Workshop Management The workshop will be organised in Bregenz and Feldkirch, Vorarlberg Province, by the Federal Ministry of Defence, Joint Command and Control Staff, Vienna in co-operation with the Vorarlberg Provincial Military Command. Project Head: Mag Karl Edlinger, Brigadier General (MoD, Joint Command and Control Staff) Point of Contact and Workshop Manager: Mag Dominik Horn, Lieutenant Colonel/Higher Military Service (MoD, Joint Command and Control Staff) Project Officers (responsible for the Workshop-Programm and the Command Post Exercise): Dr Michael Pesendorfer, Colonel/Higher Quartermaster and Legal Advisor Service (HQ 7th Infantry Brigade) Dr Hubert Speckner, Lieutenant Colonel/Higher Military Service (Liasion Officer/MoD, Joint Command and Control Staff)

3. Workshop Programme In the plenary sessions only food-for-thought presentations will be given while the majority of the discussions and presentations will be held in syndicates.

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4. Monday, 19 June 06

from 1000 HRS

Arrival

Officers´ Mess, Vorarlberg Provincial Military Command Bregenz, Reichsstraße 20

1200 – 1330 HRS

Lunch at Officers´ Mess, Vorarlberg Provincial Military Command

1400 – 1600 HRS

Welcome Reception

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

Introduction to the Workshop

Bregenz, Fluherstraße 4

Opening Ceremony

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

1600 HRS

Bregenz, Fluherstraße 4

ab 1800 HRS

Icebreaker Reception

Siechenhaus Bregenz, Gallusstraße 50

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5. Tuesday, 20 June 06

0830 HRS

Transfer from Hotels

0900 – 1200 HRS

food-for-thought presentations

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

• Aggression against Identity-constituting Cultural Property (Bayer) • Humanitarian Law and the Protection of Cultural Property (Desch) • Respect of Cultural Property and Individual Responsibility in Accordance with International Criminal Law (Desch/Windhaber)

Syndicate Work

Siechenhaus

• Case Studies (Pesendorfer)

1200 – 1330 HRS

Lunch at Officers´ Mess, Vorarlberg Provincial Military Command

1400 – 1600 HRS

Syndicate Work

Siechenhaus

• Case Studies (Pesendorfer)

1600 – 1700 HRS

food-for-thought presentations

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

• Interaction between the Legal Provisions for the Protection of Cultural Property and the Requirements of Operational Command and Control (Horn) • Protection of Cultural Property against the backdrop of the Interdependence between Internal and External Security (Peischel)

1700 HRS

Optional lecture

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

• „Cultural Heritage – Ten Years after Dayton“ (Stiegelbauer)

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6. Wednesday, 21 June 06

0830 HRS

Transfer from Hotels

0900 – 1100 HRS

Case Studies – Presentations

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

1100 – 1200 HRS

food-for-thought presentations

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

• The law of occupation and peace support operations – at odds? (Stadelmeier) • Cultural Property – Monument – The Hague Convention (Bazil)

1200 – 1330 HRS

Lunch at Officers´ Mess, Vorarlberg Provincial Military Command

1400 – 1600 HRS

CPX Operation Pallas Athena

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

• Introduction (Pesendorfer/Speckner)

Syndicate Work – Master Event 1 • Mission Planning • Presentation

1800 HRS

Optional: Regional Studies

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Siechenhaus

7. Thursday, 22 June 06

0800 HRS

Transfer from Hotels

0900 – 1700 HRS

CPX Operation Pallas Athena

City of Feldkirch

with alternating syndicates:

Master Event 2

City of Feldkirch

• Reconnaissance • Presentation

Lunchbreak at Feldkirch

Master Event 3

City of Feldkirch

• Deployement – first days • Presentation

1900 HRS

Reception by the Governor of Vorarlberg at Landhaus Bregenz Bregenz, Römerstraße 15

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8. Friday, 23 June 06

0830 HRS

Transfer from Hotels

0900 – 0930 HRS

food-for-thought presentation

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

• Non-Governmental Organizations as Partners in International Crisis Management Operations (Schuller)

0930 – 1100 HRS

Presentation of syndicate findings Vorarlberg Provincial Library

Final Event

Vorarlberg Provincial Library

food-for-thought presentation • The Wider Notion of Culture (Habsburg) • Concluding statements of ICRC and UNESCO on the insights generated by the Workshop

1200 – 1330 HRS

Lunch at Officers´ Mess, Vorarlberg Provincial Military Command

Departure

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9. Costs, Travel and Accommodation Workshop participation is free of charge. Workshop participants are requested to make travel and accommodation arrangements themselves For hotel reservation form and city plan of Bregenz: see attachement. Please note that rooms have to be booked by 19 May at the latest!

10. Language The working language is English. Translation services are not provided.

11. Participant’s Registration The Workshop Office for the registration of participants opens at 1000 HRS at the officers’ mess of Vorarlberg Provincial Military Command, Bregenz. Please notify the organisers of any late arrivals.

Contact address for further information: Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung Führungsstab/Einsatzführung/Ref 4 KdoGeb Gen KÖRNER 1140 WIEN LTC Mag. Dominik HORN Telephone: Fax: Mobile Phone: E-Mail:

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