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Protection of Religious Heritage as a Tool for Reconciliation

4 October 2022
Last update:20 April 2023
Budget: total of 250K USD donated by the Government of Flanders.
Project duration: 29-01-2020
Location: Mosul, Iraq
In cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, and in close consultation with the religious authorities & civil society organizations representing minority groups, this project aims at providing protection to religious sites affected by Daesh/ISIL in Iraq's liberated areas, in such ways to promote the inter-community reconciliation through the protection of cultural diversity in Iraq. Establishment of the "mapping and damage/needs assessment of the diverse religious heritage in Iraq" will be distributed and published (printed & online) to be used as a tool for comprehensive restoration.