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Post-conflict Heritage Reconstruction: Who Owns the Past?

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The future-making of heritage and the politics of (re-)shaping and (re-)making post-conflict spaces are indeed complex processes and require critical thinking to include the different interconnections and forms of tangible and intangible remains. This chapter explores how cultural heritage and memory are reconstructed in the aftermath of conflicts by looking at different contemporary experiences of heritage reconstruction of war-torn historic cities. This chapter investigates the relationship between heritage, memory, and political regimes, e.g., Nazism and Ba’athism, and how such totalitarian regimes used and exploited national heritage and collective memory to: (a) support their political agendas, (b) create a cult of the leader’s personality, and (c) boost the ruling party’s shaking legitimacy. This chapter goes on to examine how Berlin (East and West) has been reconstructed in the aftermath of the Second World War, what factors played a role in rebuilding Berlin’s monuments. The chapter provides a comparative analytical study of post-conflict heritage reconstruction plans in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, specifically in Syria and Lebanon during different historical periods (Ottoman, French Mandate over Syria and Lebanon, and post-civil-war Lebanon, etc.).

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Munawar, N.A. (2023). Post-conflict Heritage Reconstruction: Who Owns the Past?. In: Elayah, M.A., Lambert, L.A. (eds) Conflict and Post-Conflict Governance in the Middle East and Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23383-8_6

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