The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict critically analyses the relationship between cultural heritage and conflict as well as the tangible and intangible remnants, traces and spaces of competing heritages and memories of the past in the present. The interdisciplinary scope of the encyclopaedia breaks new ground in the study of contemporary narratives of cultural heritage and conflict and the ways in which they broaden public understandings of the complex spacio-temporal dynamics between heritage, memory, conflict, and identity. By crossing academic, artistic and professional boundaries, the encyclopedia aims to contribute to a better understanding of the extent to which practices and discourses of heritage and conflict operate as vehicles at local, national and transnational levels.

Prof. Dr. Ihab Saloul is Founder and Research Director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), and Professor of Memory and Narrative at the University of Amsterdam. Saloul leads the research domain 'Conflict' at the UvA Research Priority Area Cultural Heritage and Identity, and held senior research positions and professorships at various institutions such as the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna, NIAS Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, the Forum Transregionale Studien (EUME, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, WIKO ), Free University Berlin, Marburg University, and Maastricht University. Saloul expertise extend beyond the fields of heritage and memory studies, and encompass memory and conflict, museum studies, literary and narrative theory, identity politics, cultural analysis, post-colonialism, aesthetics and visual culture as well as migration, diaspora and exile in contemporary cultural thought in the Middle East and Europe. Saloul is a founding editor of several book series: ‘Global Heritage and Memory Studies in the Present’ (Amsterdam University Press), ‘Palgrave Studies of Cultural Heritage and Conflict’ (Palgrave Macmillan), and ‘Palestine: Past, Present and Future Narratives’ (Central European University Press CEU). He is also the Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of ‘Heritage, Memory and Conflict (HMC)', and Editor-in-Chief of the 'Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict'

Britt Baillie is an Assistant Professor, University of Aarhus, Honorary Research Assosciate and a Panel Tutor, University of Cambridge. She has directed, co-founded, and contributed to research projects and initiatives addressing heritage challenges on three continents for universities, government entities, and the private sector. She is also a co-founder of the Palgrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict series which she co-edits with Prof. Rob van der Laarse and Prof. Ihab Saloul (University of Amsterdam). Previously, she was the Research Lead at FuturePart (Johannesburg and Nairobi), an Honorary Fellow at the Wits City Institute (University of the Witwatersrand), a Research Fellow on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded Capital Cities Institutional Research Theme (University of Pretoria), Researcher at, and founding member of, the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research (University of Cambridge) an Affiliated Lecturer at the Division of Archaeology (University of Cambridge), a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the ESRC funded Conflict in Cities and the Contested State project (University of Cambridge); a Post-Doctoral Researcher on the AHRC/NWO funded Landscapes of War, Trauma and Occupation project (University of Cambridge); an AHRC funded Early Career Researcher on the Cambridge Community Heritage Project, a Researcher Fellow at the Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and the Director of Studies for Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse. Dr. Baillie completed her PhD in Heritage Management at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge in 2011.Her books include: Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday (Palgrave, 2013, co-edited with Wendy Pullan); African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development (Palgrave, 2020 co-edited with Marie-Louise Sørensen), and Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia: Synchronous Pasts (Palgrave, 2021 co-edited with Gruia Bădescu and Francesco Mazzucchelli).