Architectural Heritage and Conflict: Explores how architectural and cultural heritage are directly or instrumentally targeted in armed conflict, analyzing processes of intentional destruction, changes in function, and the symbolic manipulation of built heritage.
Reconstruction and Conflict-to-Peace Transition: Analyzes post-war or post-conflict reconstruction strategies, comparing technical, regulatory, and management approaches, and assessing how the transition phase can incorporate cultural resilience and sustainability.
Cultural Resilience, Community, and Identity: Investigates the role of local communities, collective memory, and cultural identity in the process of protecting and enhancing heritage in unstable or changing contexts, highlighting how resilience is built through heritage.
International Heritage Protection and Governance: Focuses on legal frameworks, international policies, regulations, and organizational models governing heritage protection in conflict zones and during peacetime, and on the development of universal guidelines for comparative cases.
