Facilitation of a workshop to review the future of the World Heritage Convention
Context: The World Heritage Convention is perhaps the best known responsibility of UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. 190 countries are party to the Convention which aims to protect the World’s most precious cultural and natural assets. In 2009 the World Heritage Committee determined that it would be timely to reflect on the future of the World Heritage Convention, what it was trying to achieve, and how it was being put into practice. What we did: Carolyn Peterken worked with the Secretariat of the World Heritage Committee to design a large group process that would facilitate discussion and debate …