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Agenda

1st Day

2nd Day

3rd Day

4th Day

5th Day

 Cultural Orientation for participants

Yukiko Hirakawa, Hiroshima University

 

Opening and Welcome

Nassrine Azimi UNITAR HOAP

 

Richard Englehardt

UNESCO WHC  

 

Presentation of partner organizations

Introduction of participants

Presentation on UNITAR

 

Keynote Lecture

The Raison d’Etre of the WH Convention and its Social Impact

Richard Engelhardt, UNESCO Regional Office for Education, Bangkok

 Case study 1

“What is WH?”  “Value based Management of WH Sites”

François LeBlanc, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles

 

Case study 2

"Recent Development of Natural World Heritage in Southeast Asia: Progress, Impacts and Challenges"

Han Qunli, UNESCO Jakarta Office

 

 

Case study 2 (cont'd)

 

Case study 3

“Conserving Hiroshima: Challenges on two WH Sites”

Yushi Utaka, Hiroshima University

 WH designation and policy planning

 

National policy and institutional planning

Duncan Marshall, ICOMOS Australia

 

WH designation and policy planning (cont'd)

 

"Environmental  Conservation Initiatives in Yakushima"

Hirohide Wada, Yakushima Environmental Culture Foundation

 

Presentation (cont’d)

Richard Englehardt

 

 

 Practical exercise  (cont’d)

 

Development of WH nomination plan/request for WH assistance scheme/project document making

 

Presentation of Case study

“Underwater Archaeological Heritage in Sri Lanka”

Mohan Abeyratne, Central Cultural Fund, Sri Lanka

 

11:45-12:00

Presentation of Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

 

12:00-12:50

Presentation of Onomichi (candidate for WH listing)

 

 Presentation of the results of practical exercise and the development plan

 

Commentary on the presentations by panel of resource persons, Q and A

 

 

 

Evaluation and Workshop Closing

 

 

Press Conference

 

 

 

 World Heritage Convention system of international cooperation and available mechanisms

Richard Engelhardt and Han Qunli, UNESCO World Heritage Centre

with: ICOMOS and ICCROM by Duncan Marshall, Mohan Abeyratne, Central Cultural Fund, Sri Lanka

IUCN by Hien Thi Thu Bui and Abdul Aleem Chaudhry, etc. 

 Study tour to the A-Bomb Dome WH site and Peace Memorial Museum

 Yushi Utaka

 

 

 

 

 

Debriefing of study tour by resource persons

 

 Introduction to the practical exercise– participants split up in groups

 

Hiroko Nakayama, UNITAR

 

WH nomination

WH site management

WH tourism

etc.

 

 

Practical exercise (cont’d)

  Study tour to the Miyajima-Itsukushima Shrine WH site

 

Resource person

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debriefing of Study Tour

 

 

Departures

 

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