| As an example,
AWI collects information on security threats that may put
cultural patrimony at risk, including organized crime, political
violence, and armed conflict. AWI organizes the following
information by nation.
1. direct threats to cultural patrimony:
presence of dealers and local criminal groups that may
organize subsitance looting by locals
transnational criminal groups that traffic in drugs, weapons,
humans, and raw materials may organize networks of dealers,
galleries, and auction houses
- empirical
study, "The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling:
Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques",
Fishman and Wei, 2009
2. indirect threats to cultual patrimony:
political instability that creates economic hardship and
compromises security of archaeological sites
armed conflict that creates opportunities to plunder national
collection and to loot archaeological sites
- review
of Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection
after the Iraq War, Lawrence Rothfield, 2008
3. chronological comparison of direct and indirect threats
with trends in annual sales volumes of the past decade
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