Dr. Masanori Nagaoka currently works at the UNESCO Phnom Penh Office as Culture Specialist. He has been working in the Culture sector of UNESCO for 17 years at both headquarters (UNESCO World Heritage Centre) and field offices (Jakarta cluster office and Kabul office). Having implemented a number of projects and activities including in Afghanistan, Timor Leste, the Philippines, Indonesia and so forth, he has managed projects and programmes in all fields of UNESCO Culture sector, which includes safeguarding of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, promotion of cultural diversity and tourism, culture policies for sustainable development, museums management and promotion of UNESCO normative instruments. He holds a PhD in Heritage Studies from Tsukuba University in Japan and received a Master Degree in Archaeology and Art History from Columbia University in New York, USA. He published a number of scientific peer-reviewed papers by Routledge, Springer, Emerald, ICOMOS andso forth.

• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Deliberate destruction of cultural heritage - Bamiyan Buddha statue destruction and its revitalization (Masanori Nagaoka).- Part II: An overall review of the emergency interventions at the Bamiyan World Heritage Property implemented from 2003 to 2017.- Chapter 2. Safeguarding the Buddha Statues in Bamiyan and the Sustainable Protection of Afghan Cultural Heritage (Mounir Bouchenaki).- Chapter 3. Safeguarding and Preservation Activities at the Giant Buddhas and other monuments in the Bamiyan Valley 2004 – 2017 (Bert Praxenthaler and Matthias Beck).- Chapter 4. Cultural identity and the revival of values after the demolishment of Bamiyan’s Buddhist wall paintings (Yoko Taniguchi).- Chapter 5. The Cultural Masterplan Bamiyan: the sustainable dilemma of protection and progress (Michael Jansen and Georgios Toubekis).- Part III: Deliberate destruction of heritage and its recovery.- Chapter 6. World Heritage and reconstruction – an overview and lessons learnt for the Bamiyan Valley (Mechtild Rössler).- Chapter 7. Palmyra: from War & Destruction to Rehabilitation (Maamoun Abdulkarim).- Chapter 8. Role of the Traditional Masonry Corporation in the Process of Reconstruction of the Destroyed Mausoleums in Timbuktu, Mali (Lassana Cisse).- Chapter 9. Attitudes to the Reconstruction of Synagogues - Post World War II Europe (Michael Turner).- Part IV: Heritage reconstruction in theory.- Chapter 10. Destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage as future-making (Cornelius Holtorf).- Chapter 11. The roles of the locals - and the possible reconstruction of the destroyed Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen).- Chapter 12. Learning from Ground Zero: The Presence of Absence at Two Sites of Destruction (Helaine Iris Silverman).- Part V: Future Treatment of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues.- Chapter 13. Reflections on the Case of Bamiyan (Jukka Jokilehto).- Chapter 14. Entangled Narrative Biographies ofthe Colossal Sculptures of Bamiyan (Deborah Klimburg-Salter).- Chapter 15. Could the Buddha Statues of Bamiyan be a case of "exceptional circumstance” for reconstruction? (Junko Okahashi).- Chapter 16. Emptiness and Authenticity at Bamiyan (James Janowski).- Part VI: Technical intervention proposals for the reconstruction of Bamiyan Buddha statue.- Chapter 17. The renaissance of Bamiyan (Afghanistan) Some proposals for the revitalisation of the Bamiyan valley (Claudio Margottini, Nicola Casagli, Filippo Tincolini, Andrea Bruno, Giacomo Massari, Filippo Tincolini, Heinz Ruther).- Chapter 18. Physical Revitalization of the Eastern Buddha Statue in Bamiyan using reinforced adobe material (Georgios Toubekis, Michael Jansen and Matthias Jarke).- Chapter 19. Technical Proposal for Revitalizing the Eastern Buddha Statues in Bamiyan (Kosaku Maeda, Shigeyuki Okazaki, Noritoshi Sugiura, Aya Yamaguchi, Masaaki Miyasako, Kazuya Yamauchi, Kenji Tamai, Shigeo Aoki, Takashi Inoue).

Dr. Masanori Nagaoka currently works at the UNESCO Phnom Penh Office as Culture Specialist. He has been working in the Culture sector of UNESCO for 17 years at both headquarters (UNESCO World Heritage Centre) and field offices (Jakarta cluster office and Kabul office). Having implemented a number of projects and activities including in Afghanistan, Timor Leste, the Philippines, Indonesia and so forth, he has managed projects and programmes in all fields of UNESCO Culture sector, which includes safeguarding of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, promotion of cultural diversity and tourism, culture policies for sustainable development, museums management and promotion of UNESCO normative instruments. He holds a PhD in Heritage Studies from Tsukuba University in Japan and received a Master Degree in Archaeology and Art History from Columbia University in New York, USA. He published a number of scientific peer-reviewed papers by Routledge, Springer, Emerald, ICOMOS andso forth.

• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Deliberate destruction of cultural heritage - Bamiyan Buddha statue destruction and its revitalization (Masanori Nagaoka).- Part II: An overall review of the emergency interventions at the Bamiyan World Heritage Property implemented from 2003 to 2017.- Chapter 2. Safeguarding the Buddha Statues in Bamiyan and the Sustainable Protection of Afghan Cultural Heritage (Mounir Bouchenaki).- Chapter 3. Safeguarding and Preservation Activities at the Giant Buddhas and other monuments in the Bamiyan Valley 2004 – 2017 (Bert Praxenthaler and Matthias Beck).- Chapter 4. Cultural identity and the revival of values after the demolishment of Bamiyan’s Buddhist wall paintings (Yoko Taniguchi).- Chapter 5. The Cultural Masterplan Bamiyan: the sustainable dilemma of protection and progress (Michael Jansen and Georgios Toubekis).- Part III: Deliberate destruction of heritage and its recovery.- Chapter 6. World Heritage and reconstruction – an overview and lessons learnt for the Bamiyan Valley (Mechtild Rössler).- Chapter 7. Palmyra: from War & Destruction to Rehabilitation (Maamoun Abdulkarim).- Chapter 8. Role of the Traditional Masonry Corporation in the Process of Reconstruction of the Destroyed Mausoleums in Timbuktu, Mali (Lassana Cisse).- Chapter 9. Attitudes to the Reconstruction of Synagogues - Post World War II Europe (Michael Turner).- Part IV: Heritage reconstruction in theory.- Chapter 10. Destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage as future-making (Cornelius Holtorf).- Chapter 11. The roles of the locals - and the possible reconstruction of the destroyed Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen).- Chapter 12. Learning from Ground Zero: The Presence of Absence at Two Sites of Destruction (Helaine Iris Silverman).- Part V: Future Treatment of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues.- Chapter 13. Reflections on the Case of Bamiyan (Jukka Jokilehto).- Chapter 14. Entangled Narrative Biographies ofthe Colossal Sculptures of Bamiyan (Deborah Klimburg-Salter).- Chapter 15. Could the Buddha Statues of Bamiyan be a case of "exceptional circumstance” for reconstruction? (Junko Okahashi).- Chapter 16. Emptiness and Authenticity at Bamiyan (James Janowski).- Part VI: Technical intervention proposals for the reconstruction of Bamiyan Buddha statue.- Chapter 17. The renaissance of Bamiyan (Afghanistan) Some proposals for the revitalisation of the Bamiyan valley (Claudio Margottini, Nicola Casagli, Filippo Tincolini, Andrea Bruno, Giacomo Massari, Filippo Tincolini, Heinz Ruther).- Chapter 18. Physical Revitalization of the Eastern Buddha Statue in Bamiyan using reinforced adobe material (Georgios Toubekis, Michael Jansen and Matthias Jarke).- Chapter 19. Technical Proposal for Revitalizing the Eastern Buddha Statues in Bamiyan (Kosaku Maeda, Shigeyuki Okazaki, Noritoshi Sugiura, Aya Yamaguchi, Masaaki Miyasako, Kazuya Yamauchi, Kenji Tamai, Shigeo Aoki, Takashi Inoue).