Vea todos los comunicados de prensa relacionados al COVID-19 →, Official Website of the Department of Homeland Security. The #CultureUnderThreat report outlines specific actions that can be taken by the Obama Administration, Congress, the art market, and the international community to reduce cultural destruction and looting, end impunity for illegal trade in heritage property, and sever this key funding source for extremists like Daesh. The Antiquities Coalition, Asia Society, and Middle East Institute convened the #CultureUnderThreat Task Force to counter these threats to our world heritage and national security. 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ICE executes its mission through the enforcement of more than 400 federal statutes, focusing on preventing terrorism, immigration enforcement and combating transnational crime. What has changed is the ability of cultural pirates to acquire, transport and sell valuable cultural property and art swiftly, easily and stealthily. December 3, 2020. Returning a nation's looted cultural heritage or stolen artwork, promotes goodwill with foreign governments and citizens, while significantly protecting the world's cultural heritage and knowledge of past civilizations. The accord also makes provision for the creation of a Task Force training centre in Turin. The Task Force was established in 2004 with the objective of coordinating efforts across federal agencies, including law enforcement, to block trafficking in cultural property. The Culture Secretary has today announced representatives from the arts, cultural and sporting worlds who will join a new taskforce aimed at helping … FADEL: I just think about history as identity and part of the history of a nation. In partnership with our Libyan colleagues, and with support from the U.S. Department of State’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), the Cultural Antiquities Task Force (CATF), and the U.S. Embassy Libya External Office (LEO), ASOR is bringing a message of hope through Cultural Heritage Volunteer Weekends. Washington D.C. Metro Area. Cultural Antiquities Task Force Program Officer. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. MoMA Department Coordinator, General Counsel. Congress created a Cultural Antiquities Task Force in 2004 to help support cultural preservation and protection in Afghanistan and Iraq and to help international organizations stop looting and trafficking of antiquities. Once the civil society starts breaking down and conflict becomes an issue, cultural property - it gets illegally transferred, or it gets destroyed. funds to train customs officials to detect antiquities before they reach buyers. It's a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. Foreign Affairs Research Analyst What are some examples of historic sites, artifacts, works of art that have been lost in conflict that you're thinking of when you think about this capability going forward? All rights reserved. Training for the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage (IICAH) in Erbil Now the U.S. military has taken concrete steps to protect those antiquities by creating the Cultural Heritage Task Force. The Antiquities Coalition’s nonpartisan think tank convened the Financial Crimes Task Force to further this mission and serve as an ongoing resource to policymakers. The project, supported by the State Department’s Cultural Antiquities Task Force, will help establish procedures for Iraqi-led stabilization and recovery of artifacts at sites across the country as they are liberated from the Islamic State group. DEJESSE: Yeah. The Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Program is unique to Homeland Security Investigation's (HSI) portfolio. FADEL: So most listeners are probably familiar with the success that a similar unit had protecting historical sites and returning stolen artwork during World War II. The public, government and private institutions often aid HSI in identifying, investigating and prosecuting illicitly trafficked cultural property. According to the task force presenters - professors from Shawnee State University and Georgetown University (one of the authors) - ISIS is not only looting antiquities from ancient Mesopotamia to fund their terrorist activities, but it is also effectively licensing the plunder. One of these properties includes the pyramid fields from Giza to Dahshur, a region known to be brutally Cultural Property Expert, Archaeologist, Curator Program Director, Cultural Antiquities Task Force at U.S. Department of State University of California, Berkeley General Attorney, Dept. The theft and trafficking of cultural heritage and art is a tradition as old as the cultures they represent. With 65 indigenous communities, Uganda has a rich culture heritage that offers potential for abundant growth of creative enterprises. This program falls in the realm of task force. Gannon University has received a $188,950 grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation, the Cultural Antiquities Task Force, and the U.S. Embassy in Jordan that will be used to support the ongoing Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project, or MRAMP, in Jordan. CATF, an established stand-alone task force operating since 2004, is CHCC's third working group. Report Crimes: Email or Call 1-866-DHS-2-ICE. DEJESSE: I went to art school to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and then I was doing ROTC separately. So how much did those settings have to do with the desire to form this new unit? CATF comprises federal agencies that share a common mission to combat trafficking in antiquities in the United States and abroad. There are seven cultural and natural properties in Egypt inscribed on the World Heritage list, in addition to 32 sites on the tentative list. antiquities theft. (read more). This award was made possible through the AFCP’s Cultural Antiquities Task Force and will support the NGJ’s Conservation Redevelopment & Storage Rationalization Project. The U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Antiquities Task Force includes personnel from the previously mentioned federal agencies plus the U.S. Trainers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and the Cultural Antiquities Task Force at the U.S. Department of State joined Egyptian officials from the Ministry of Antiquities, Egyptian Customs, Tourism Police, and other agencies to discuss how the two countries can cooperate more effectively to prevent the illicit trade of Egyptian and American antiquities. Copyright © 2019 NPR. Or, you know, there's elements of the State Department that deal with this. And to think that these worlds somehow have merged back on each other is incredible. FADEL: Right. Task Force members may be called upon in the event of terrorist attacks or natural disasters to assess damage, plan conservation and tackle the illicit trade in art and antiquities. How did that inform your work in developing this team? This award was made possible through the AFCP’s Cultural Antiquities Task Force and will support the NGJ’s Conservation Redevelopment & Storage Rationalization Project. Yet, regulatory mechanisms to close U.S. borders to blood antiquities and enhance transparency in art markets remain far too weak, as demonstrated by several high-profile criminal cases in the art market. Testimony before the Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing on “Preventing Cultural Genocide: Countering the Plunder and Sale of Priceless Cultural Antiquities by ISIS April 19, 2016. The Cultural Antiquities Task Force works to increase cooperation among law enforcement agencies and the State Department on cultural heritage challenges and produces emergency “Red Lists of Antiquities at Risk,” which are specially designed guides for customs officials, police officers, museums, art dealers, and collectors, to help them recognize the general types of archaeological, ethnographic, and … With the task force, HSI New York’s Cultural Property, Arts and Antiquities Unit, dedicated to cultural property investigations in the New York area, is now able to establish real-time information sharing on global, multi-jurisdictional criminal investigations and build upon existing relationships with domestic and international partners. Departments of Defense, Interior, and Treasury. [vi] The Antiquities Coalition later partnered with the Asia Society and Middle East Institute as the #CultureUnderThreat Task Force, issuing a highly publicized April 2016 report that summarily declared a causal effect between a supposed “multi-billion dollar demand for art and antiquities” and the looting and destruction of ancient sites. It can be traded on the illicit market. Museum Assistant General Counsel. That's really what we're trying to get to. DEJESSE: You know, 2003, the looting in the Museum of Baghdad. Task force members would then deploy with and advise troops during fighting on how to protect local sites. Program Director, Cultural Antiquities Task Force U.S. Department of State. The building was - 50% of it was destroyed. Still, even attempts to strengthen coordination within agencies and between state and local entities have often stalled , weakening their collective ability to slow the trafficking. Established by the U.S. Congress in 2004, the Cultural Antiquities Task Force (CATF) is led by the Department of State’s Cultural Heritage Center and is a working group of the Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee. There are social practices. But our expertise in the area of cultural heritage supports the mission commander. The Antiquities Coalition later partnered with the Asia Society and Middle East Institute as the #CultureUnderThreat Task Force, issuing a highly publicized April 2016 report that summarily declared a causal effect between a supposed “multi-billion dollar demand for art and antiquities” and the looting and destruction of ancient sites. I would like to begin by thanking the Task Force Investigating Terrorism Finance for inviting me to testify before it on a matter of such importance. FADEL: These are zones that are dangerous that would be difficult for civilians to go into. The Emergency Protection for Iraqi Cultural Antiquities Act of 2004 authorized the President to exercise his authority under the CPIA to apply import restrictions to any archaeological or ethnological mater ial of Iraq if the President determines that an emergency condition applies to such material. The idea is to find Army Reserve officers who also happen to be museum curators, archaeologists and other specialists in conservation and assign them to the unit. Presentation by the Cultural Antiquities Task Force of the CHCC and Q&A. Wherever there's conflict, cultural property is being destroyed and being looted. Training for the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage (IICAH) in Erbil Returning a nation's looted cultural heritage or stolen artwork, promotes goodwill with foreign governments and citizens, while significantly protecting the world's cultural heritage and knowledge of past civilizations. Fine Arts Museum General Counsel. Departments of Defense, Interior, and Treasury. As the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has warned, art and antiquities are particularly vulnerable to money laundering and terrorist financing, which often go hand-in-hand. A draft of the Proposed Solutions outlined in this report was circulated in February, asking for comments on approximately 40 recommendations contained in the draft report. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries to promote friendly and peaceful relations. There's got to be uniformed personnel. General Attorney, Dept. Congress created a Cultural Antiquities Task Force in 2004 to help support cultural preservation and protection in Afghanistan and Iraq and to help international organizations stop looting and trafficking of antiquities. FADEL: And these are places with centuries of history - Iraq and Syria referred to as the cradle of civilization. As part of this program, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute provides HSI special agents with on-site training on how to handle, store, photograph and authenticate cultural property and works of art. 7. And the difference between the Monuments Men of World War II and the cultural heritage preservation officers of today is the way the conflicts have recently been fought. We serve the mission of whatever is dictated and directed by the commander. It's a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. New Antiquities Coalition Policy Brief Proposes Multilateral Export Control Regimes to Fortify the Legitimate Trade in Cultural Objects A keen interest of mine is intangible cultural heritage, the idea that this is directly connected to our hearts and our minds, and this is the beliefs that we carry with us. Looted artwork, destroyed artifacts and damaged historical sites are often overlooked casualties in war zones. Recent conflicts have been more about the populace. The project is designed to redevelop the Gallery’s conservation laboratory workspace and reorganize its collection storage areas. Since 2007, HSI special agents have participated in a training program to learn the latest techniques and trends for conducting criminal investigations of cultural property. NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Col. Scott DeJesse about the development of the U.S. Army's new Cultural Heritage Task Force. So it happens that the U.S. has been in conflict for some two decades now - first in Afghanistan, then Iraq, troops in Syria. Think Tank Makes Recommendations for Strengthening the Legal Trade in Cultural Material. Accuracy and availability may vary. DEJESSE: Yeah. It's a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. Looting - since the history of warfare, this has taken place. The Task Force was established in 2004 with the objective of coordinating efforts across federal agencies, including law enforcement, to block trafficking in cultural property. The Antiquities Coalition has created a “#CultureUnderThreat Task Force Report,” to be launched mid-April. Now the U.S. military has taken concrete steps to protect those antiquities by creating the Cultural Heritage Task Force. Federal importation laws give HSI the authority to take a leading role in investigating crimes involving the illicit importation and distribution of cultural property and art. ICE consists of three directorates to accomplish the agency’s mission, including Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Management and Administration (M&A). The Task Force brings together leaders from the heritage, law enforcement, legal, military, and security communities. 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