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Dr Emma Cunliffe is a Research Associate with the Cultural Property Protection & Peace Team at the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, and a member of the Blue Shield, an NGO working in heritage protection before and during armed conflict. As the Secretariat for Blue Shield International, and the Secretary for Blue Shield United Kingdom, part of her role involves providing support, and developing and providing training development for armed forces (nationally and internationally) in heritage protection, in targeting, CIMIC, and specialist forces.

Her [backgroundhttp://etheses.dur.ac.uk/8472/ background] is in the destruction of Middle Eastern archaeology, specifically Syria and Iraq, using geo-spatial data and satellite imagery analysis of site damage. Building on this, her current research focuses on the ways cultural heritage is damaged in both in armed conflict and peace across the world and the motivations underlying this, and on the development of methods to protect it. It is strongly influenced by national and international cultural property protection laws, particularly the 1954 Hague Convention and Protocols, their practical implementation, and their relation to military practice. Her most recent project examined geo-spatial databases for the armed forces to use in conflict and emergency response in heritage protection. She has published on heritage destruction in armed conflict in a number of leading journals. She has also worked as a consultant for UNITAR/UNOSAT, conducting satellite imagery analysis of cultural heritage damage during the Syrian conflict in 2014 and 2017.

She is a Visiting Scholar at the Kings College London Centre for Military Ethics, where she produces the Cultural Property Protection online module.