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Woodhead, Charlotte (2019) Action towards consistent 'just and fair solutions'. Gouvernement Français.
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Abstract
The 2017 London conference, 70 Years and Counting: The Final Opportunity? followed the Dutch Restitutecommissie’s 2012 Conference. 2018 saw the Berlin conference, “20 Years Washington Principles: Roadmap for the Future” and more recently the 2019 Conference commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Terezin Declaration took place in Prague.
The London conference participants were keen to develop positive and concrete outcomes to ensure that change was effected. As part of this commitment, an Action Plan was produced - ‘Agreed outcomes and recommendations’. Action and a desire to make progress permeated the document; more than a set of general principles or aspirations, it represented tangible actions that could be implemented and posed questions about key areas for development.
A central theme of the Action Plan was the need to address the differences between the five national restitution committees. This included definitional differences in ‘loss’, ‘forced’ sale and the categories of claimants. The committees were invited to consider in particular differences in process, information provided and the criteria used to determine claims. The Action Plan also called for consistency in the standards in the presentation of provenance research. The second theme was transparency and provision of information. This included encouraging publication of the outcomes of claims and information to support provenance research and claims, including access to collection inventories and the digitisation of other archives. The third theme focused on identifying and encouraging best practice which might help other countries develop similar committees or inform the resolution of private claims. Training represented the fourth theme. Each of the countries was encouraged to identify and resource a provenance researcher who could undertake training and work with stakeholders. The Action Plan also called for the development of links through a network of the committees and further international conferences.
Item Type: | Scholarly Text | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Publisher: | Gouvernement Français | ||||
Book Title: | Guide to the work of the restitution committees : five ways of resolving claims | ||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 April 2022 | ||||
Is Part Of: | Guide to the work of the restitution committees : five ways of resolving claims | ||||
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