ICESCO is increasingly attaching paramount importance to supporting its Member States that have experienced security crises. The security situation has had a lasting impact on the protection of cultural property with the corollary of the inscription of 34 sites from the Islamic world inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger. This lids to the increase in the illicit trafficking of cultural property, the abandonment of several historic cities including heritage knowledge and know-how.

These are at the heart of the cultural economy, and the cessation of cultural tourism, which is an essential link to the sustainability of these countries in a global context marked by environmental crises and the drastic depletion of fossil resources. 26 of the sites on the World Danger list are in war zones. For an adequate response to this phenomenon, the

Islamic World Heritage Centre (CPMI) offers a post-conflict cultural heritage management programme to support countries affected by politico-military conflicts and other security crises in order to ensure the sustainability of these cultural properties.