Living Heritage and Safeguarding Outstanding Universal Value

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The decision of the World Heritage Committee in 1994 to take into consideration the principles and views contained in the Nara Document on Authenticity (1994) in its evaluation of properties nominated for inclusion on the World Heritage List is a turning point in the history of the World Heritage Convention. It generated an enriched World Heritage discourse and listing of sites that demonstrated both cultural diversity and heritage diversity. Significantly, the knowledge of community groups living in World Heritage sites has become important in management, and this was further underscored in 2007 by the Committee adopting ‘Communities’ as one of the 5 ‘Cs’, or Strategic Objectives for facilitating the implementation of the Convention.

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