COMMITEE TOPICS
1.AWAR: How can we increase public awareness, involvement in and support for World Heritage preservation?
2.URBA: Uncontrolled urbanization and unchecked tourist development pose major problems to World Heritage sites. These can threaten the very characteristics for which a site was originally inscribed on the World Heritage List. How can we decrease these problems?
3.MEPO: One of the most important concepts is sustainability in terms of heritage. Monitoring and inspection are great importance of this issue. So what ways can World Heritage Committee develop the positive impacts of monitoring and inspection, according to their Outstanding Universal Value and responding to them effectively?
4.WARM: World Heritage sites properties are affected by the impacts of climate change across the globe, it could eventually even cause some sites to lose their status. So it is fast becoming one of the most significant risks for world heritage sites. So what can be done to minimize the risks of climate change for our World Heritage for current and future generations?
5.UNES: How can UNESCO identify the global heritage policies and how should it be done?
6.PRED: Crises are devastating events which primarily have impact on the surrounding. political crises without doubt pose the greatest threat to human life. They also pose a great danger for cultural heritage. Unfortunately, heritage sites become the primary targets of assailants who try to destroy the history, who want to ruin the evidence of history and erase the footprints of cultures. As a result of that There are so many heritages which have been damaged and even ruined as a consequence of the political crises.so what can we do to protect heritages from crises?
7.EART: Earthquakes are unpreventable but not unpredictable and uncontrollable. The World Heritage Committee has often advised States Parties with sites in areas prone to earthquakes to ensure that all possible measures are taken to limit damage caused by this natural phenomenon but there are still damages that we can’t ignore. What can we do to minimize the damage?
8.IFRE: It’s a scary world these days for fish. World Heritage marine sites struggle with illegal and unsustainable fisheries despite their iconic status. How can we solve this problem and increase the protection of marine resources?