Cultural Cleansing and Mass Atrocities: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Armed Conflict Zones addresses the connection between cultural heritage and cultural cleansing, mass atrocities, and the destruction of cultural heritage. Pulling together various threads of discourse and research, Cultural Cleansing and Mass Atrocities outlines the issues, challenges, and options effecting change.

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He also is Co-Chair, Cultural Heritage at Risk Project, J. Paul Getty Trust; Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and Global Eminence Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea.

Nina Connelly is a research associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute of the City University of New York's Graduate Center, where she is researching international development and the United Nations.