Title Page
ABSTRACT
Contents
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 13
1.1. Definition of Cultural Property and Armed Conflict 13
1.1.1. Cultural Property 14
1.1.2. Armed Conflict 15
1.2. International Legal Framework of Cultural Property Protection during Armed Conflicts 16
1.2.1. Historical Background before 1954 Hague Convention 17
1.2.2. 1954 Hague Convention and its first Protocol 18
1.2.3. Second Protocol 18
CHAPTER II: CULTURAL PROPERTY PROTECTION IN INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT 22
2.1. Three mechanism of Protection in Hague Convention and its protocol 22
2.1.1. General Protection 22
2.1.2. Special Protection 23
2.1.3. Enhanced Protection 24
2.2. Obligation of Armed conflict parties 26
2.2.1. The principal obligations 27
2.2.2. Obligation of protect in peaceful time 28
2.2.3. Obligation of Appropriate Mark 29
CHAPTER III: NEW CHALLENGE OF CULTURAL PROPERTY FACED WITH ISIS 29
3.1. Destruction of Cultural property by ISIS 30
3.2. Scalping Relics by ISIS 34
3.3. Confronting ISIS's War on Cultural Property 38
CHAPTER IV: INTERNATIONAL CRIME AND INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY ABOUT THIS ISSUE 44
4.1. General Introduction 45
4.2. Two Patterns of Liability 47
4.2.1. Based on War Crime 48
4.2.2. Specific rule 53
4.3. Case Study 59
CHAPTER V: CHINA AND PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY IN ARMED CONFLICT 66
5.1. Legal framework of Chinese Cultural Property protection 67
5.1.1. Domestic Law in China 68
5.1.2. Conventions that China has joined 70
5.2. The restitution of Chinese cultural objects lost overseas 72
5.3. Proposal 76
CHAPTER VI: CONCLUSION 78
REFERENCE 81