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Professor Peter G. Stone is currently the UNESCO Chairholder in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University. He is also the Vice-President of Blue Shield International, and the Chair of the UK Committee of the Blue Shield. For his long career and merits in the field of heritage education, in 2011 Peter Stone was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil).

After he graduated with a PhD in Archaeology/Education, Peter Stone joined archaeological excavations on a number of sites including the Anglo-Scandinavian site of Coppergate in York, the Saxon site of Hamwic in Southampton, and on the Neolithic excavations at Hambledon Hill in Dorset. P. G. Stone, ‘4 Tier Approach in the Protection of Cultural Property’, The British Army Review, 2013-14, pp. 40-51.

During the war in Iraq in 2003, Peter Stone was contacted by the UK's Ministry of Defence to advise on the identification and protection of archaeological sites in Iraq. From this experience, he wrote extensively on the topic of cultural property protection in the event of armed conflict and the necessity of working with military forces to develop effective safeguarding measures. This led to the publication of the internationally well-received book, co-edited with Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq. His influential article, A 4-Tier Approach to the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, published in Antiquity  and the British Army Review, led directly to the establishment of a Joint Service Cultural Property Protection Unit within UK forces.