The UNESCO Chair on Business Integrity and Crime Prevention in Art and Antiquities Market and the Fondazione Centro nazionale di prevenzione e difesa sociale (Cnpds) are organizing the international conference “Curbing trafficking in cultural property: a path for global strategy”, to be held on Friday, November 7, 2025, in Milan, at Palazzo Edison, Foro Buonaparte, 31, Milan, from 9:00 a.m. CET.
The event is organized with the support of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and is part of the activities of the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC).
The conference focuses on strategies to combat trafficking in cultural property from a transnational perspective, examining the state of the art of regulation at the international and domestic level, with a particular focus on multi-stakeholders cooperation aimed at the return of illicitly stolen cultural property, and on the role of the guidelines developed by the United Nations. The aim of the conference is to contribute to the debate carried out by the United Nations on the subject, also in view of the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, to be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 23 to 30 April 2026.
Among the speakers there will be representatives of UNESCO and UNODC, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Justice, academics, magistrates and representatives of European and international law enforcement agencies (Eurojust, Interpol, Carabinieri), academics and widely recognized professionals in the field, from the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, Egypt, Austria, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
The working language is English.
Participation in the conference is free and requires registration at the following link: https://www.cnpds.it/attivita-ricerche/curbing-trafficking-in-cultural-property-a-path-for-global-strategy/
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