المعايير الدولية لاعتماد المواقع في لائحة التراث العالمي (دراسة في ضوء إتفاقية حماية التراث العالمي)

International Criteria for the Inscription of the Properties on World Heritage List (A study in world heritage convention)

Abstract

Heritage sites, whether cultural or natural, material or moral, are among the most important factors that reflect the culture, civilization and history of countries, and In general, heritage is linked to various cultural, social, economic and religious sciences, Therefore, international conventions have been keen to pay special attention to heritage properties, and the World Heritage Convention of (1972) is the pioneer in this field, as it explicitly stipulated a set of criterions that must be available in cultural or natural properties, in order for them to have outstanding universal value, and then acquire the status of world heritage.
International criterions are the adopted method to give universal value to cultural or natural properties, however some states parties to the World Heritage Convention have not worked to register a large group of their important properties that meet international criteria on the World Heritage List.
Since international criteria have this importance, in addition to the great importance of world heritage at all fields, it is necessary to highlight this valuable heritage and the criteria for its selection, this is what this thesis based on, with its divisions that included two main chapters, the first chapter devoted to explain the concept of world heritage and international criteria, through two sections, the first section talks about concept of the world heritage, and the second section includes explaining of the concept of the international criteria.
As for the chapter tow, we discussed the legal status of international criteria, in two sections. In the first section we discussed the applications of international criteria to foreign and Arab sites, finally, in the second section we mentioned the effects that result from registering properties on the world heritage list, and we concluded the thesis with a conclusion containing a set of results and recommendations that prove that the idea of conferring outstanding universal value on world Heritage sites, based on certain criterions, is a modern and unprecedented idea.