ABSTRACT
Items of cultural heritage are frequently maliciously damaged in the context of armed conflict. This raises the question as to what to do once the conflict is over. Recent consensus has opposed reconstruction. However, the World Heritage Committee has sanctioned reconstruction in a number of places, including the historic center of Warsaw, the bridge at Mostar, and the Sufi mausoleums in Mali. This paper attempts to provide a justification for such a shift, drawing on the literature of our duties to rectify injustice. It also shows that there is the capacity to rectify injustice, though reconstruction has its limits.
