Safeguarding of cultural heritage institutions during conflicts and disorders : analytical study

Abstract
The information institutions are the most important of the social institutions that contributed in preserving and making the several resources of knowledge available. They are the memory of nations and the mirror of its civilizations that reflect the volume and the value of its scientific, civilizational and moral heritage, which act as a brick in the body of the human civilization. That is what always makes them a strategic target for destruction and ruination during the period of conflict and disorder. Keeping and safeguarding them became the obsession of the International society as a whole, especially after several countries, especially in the Middle East Area, have bear tremendous losses in its cultural and civilizational heritage because of the conflicts and disorders those countries were afflicted with.
In the light of the aforementioned, this study is looking for handling the reasons of seeking the information institutions and monitoring the volume of losses for such institutions across the history as a result of the disorders and conflicts. Also identifying the nature of cultural properties in the light of lahai convention in 1954. Also this study is looking for monitoring the means of local and international safeguarding for the information institutions during the periods of conflict and disorders in the light of international conventions and local legislations with presenting the international efforts exerted in this regard.