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Η διαφύλαξη της άυλης πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς και η προστασία των νεότερων μνημείων: πρόληψη και αντιμετώπιση κινδύνων

There are certain tangible dimensions of Intangible Cultural Heritage, taking into account concerning heritage protection and safeguarding. New instruments are often prepared, after the exchange of knowledge and experience that
takes place therein (e.g., Declaration concerning the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage,
UNESCO 2003). More specifically, the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage has offered a vitally important management tool.
Measures aiming at preventing risks that ICH and its tangible products face can be built around two main pivots: i. enhancement of the value of traditions and social practices that foster sustainable management of natural resources, and ii. systematic documentation of oral traditions and the expressions of ICH in general.
Although ICH is in danger in armed conflict situations and in emergencies in general, we firmly believe that there is also a great potential in overcoming the direst results of a conflict or an emergency through ICH. Around elements of ICH, community identities and sense of belonging are been formed and constantly renewed. This is the strength of ICH. Enhancing the value of ICH in peaceful times and stressing its inherent and invaluable potential for conflict and emergency prevention, and reconciliation afterwards, is vitally important.
that all monuments -movable and immovable alike- are products of intangible craftsmanship and know-how: masonry, vernacular architecture, stone-carving, wood-carving; ceramic arts and metallurgy; wooden shipbuilding; weaving; various forms of knowledge in land cultivation and animal husbandry; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe in general as they shape the cultural landscapes people inhabit.
Risk for Intangible Cultural Heritage arises when the trans-generational chain of knowledge transmission is torn asunder. Transmission of ICH may be endangered when traditional knowledge is abandoned in favor of new technology and methods, or the bearers of ICH are displaced (often violently) due to armed conflict or climate change, or even because of large-scale human
intervention in the natural environment (e.g., construction of great dams that may inundate villages and cultivation areas).
The existing Conventions for the protection of cultural heritage offer invaluable tools that may help us avert the risks for tangible and intangible heritage. International Organizations, such as UNESCO, foster dialogue among states and communities that enhances the good practices

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