March 2019 – Creating Rights

Acting Together on the World Stage (the documentary and toolkit) – Review

Blog 15 March 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez In 2011, Theatre Without Borders and Brandeis university’s programme in Peacebuilding and the Arts created an Acting Together on the World Stage: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict documentary and toolkit. Combined with a two-volume anthology (which will not be reviewed here), the documentary and the toolkit form part of a project…

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Threat of an erosion of Second World War Era Restitution Principles

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By Nolwenn Guibert On 3 December 1998, 44 governments participating in the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets endorsed what came to be known as the “Washington Principles” for dealing with artwork confiscated by the Nazi Regime during the Second World War. The Washington Principles establish, inter alia, that in assessing whether a work of art has…