تفاصيل الرسالة العلمية

The researcher in this study deals with an one of the international law topics, namely, the "legal mechanisms for the protection and returning back of the Iraqi cultural properties (stolen during the American troops invasion to Iraq in 2003)", where this study aims at showing ways and means of protecting and returning back of the Iraqi cultural properties, by shedding light on the most relevant international agreements. The problem of the study has focused on means of the national and international mechanisms through which the cultural properties of Iraq could be returned .In addition, the researcher deals with means of providing the legal protection of the cultural properties in times of armed conflict through the relevant international instruments regarding this topic. This study has been addressed by an introduction and two chapters, where the concept of cultural properties, its types, and the responsibility of the occupying powers in providing protection and to prevent trafficking in cultural properties in Iraq in particular are introduced, and also Iraq's right to return back of its cultural and national properties as well as the international mechanisms that ensure this. The researcher concluded the following main findings: Calling Iraq to join the international agreements and treaties that have the potential to commit the countries to return the Iraqi antiquities and the thesis calling Iraq to join the international criminal court since ore of its specialty is to deal with the war crimes , and rising the juridical lawsuits directly in the countries which pocess the Iraqi antiquities and to exert the erasure on the united states to return the archive of the Iraqi state