This paper deals with the implementation of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its Protocols in armed forces focusing on the Austrian Armed Forces as a best-practice example thereof. It argues for: a. the importance of cultural property protection being an integral element of any military doctrine drafted by political authorities, of a special military directive for cultural property protection, and of cultural property protection being an element in all rules of engagement; b. for the concept of a Cultural Property Protection Officer or Liaison Officer: Military Cultural Property Protection as the professional military staff member responsible for ensuring cultural property protection is considered by their commanders in any situation in times of peace as well as during the conduct of missions; c. for also taking cultural property protection into account for multinational missions such as peace support operations, as well as for military disaster relief missions; d. for the cooperation of the military with non-governmental organizations for developing, implementing, and improving principles of military cultural property protection. تتناول هذه المقالة تنفيذ الاتفاقية المتعلقة بحماية الممتلكات الثقافية في حالة نشوب نزاع مسلح وبروتوكولاتها في القوات المسلحة مع التركيز على القوات المسلحة النمساوية مثالا لأفضل الممارسات منه. وتناقش: (أ) أهمية حماية الملكية الثقافية كجزء لا يتجزأ من أي عقيدة عسكرية وضعتها السلطات السياسية كتوجه عسكري خاص لحماية الممتلكات الثقافية ، وان حماية الممتلكات الثقافية هي عنصر في كل قواعد الاشتباك. (ب) لمفهوم موظف حماية الملكية الثقافية أو ضابط الاتصال : حماية الملكية الثقافية عسكريا كمجموعة عسكرية متخصصة و مسؤولة عن ضمان حماية الملكية الثقافية, يعينون من قبل قادتهم في أي حالة في أوقات السلم وكذلك أثناء سير البعثات. (ج). أخذ حماية الملكية الثقافية في الاعتبار للبعثات متعددة الجنسيات مثل عمليات دعم السلام ، و البعثات العسكرية الاغاثية في حالات الكوارث ؛( د). التعاون العسكري مع المنظمات غير الحكومية لتطوير وتنفيذ وتحسين المبادئ العسكرية لحماية الملكية الثقافية.

This issue of WAC's ''Archaeologies'' offers elaborated papers originally delivered at the WAC-IC on ''Archaeology in Conflict'' held in Vienna in April 2010. All original presenters were invited to contribute. Concise versions of several papers were published in Forum Archaeologiae 55/VI/2010 (http://farch.net/) edited by Elisabeth Trinkl. The WAC-IC in Vienna originated in the 6th WAC which was held in Ireland at the University College Dublin (UCD) in July 2008. It was attended by over 1,800 archaeologists from about 75 countries. In three academic sessions the issue of archaeology and war was discussed most controversially. One session was entitled ''Archaeologists, War and Conflict: Ethics, Politics, Responsibility'' and plead more or less for a boycott of the military by the scientific community. The second one, ''Working with the Military: Not Evil, Just Necessary'' did the opposite. The third one, ''Archaeology in the Context of War'' focused on legal and systematic issues. The hot topic even caused an Irish local anarchic movement to utter immediate threats against the conference and its participants and the UCD as host felt it was necessary to ensure protection. As a consequence thereof uniformed police personnel were present during part of the conference. This fact triggered even more discussion during the final plenary of the congress which by tradition is the closing forum of every WAC allowing its members and participants to discuss imminent issues and bring draft resolutions before the assembled audience to be either rejected or recommended to the WAC Executive for final approval. In the course of this plenary I suggested organizing a WAC-IC that would specifically deal with the issue of archaeology and war as well as the military, explore the status quo and collect data that would serve as a basis for further decision making. Several months later the WAC Executive made the choice to entrust me with this task and to host the meeting in Vienna. Before the WAC-IC in Vienna was to take place another important event was already scheduled: the WAC-IC in Ramallah in August 2009. This conference rooted in the 5th WAC which was held in Washington in 2003. One of the experiences of this WAC had been that many archaeologists from various disadvantaged countries around the world were hindered

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