Requirements and Objectives for Appropriate Solutions

Abstract

The previous chapters show that the cultural property law on an international level and in European cultural property market countries do not provide sufficient solutions with regard to international cultural property repatriation claims of indigenous peoples. Transnational law and procedures are not efficient enough, to create legal certainty, and might ultimately leave the indigenous peoples unheard. The possessors of indigenous cultural property are thereby left with most difficult political, legal, and ethical questions to deal with. The general problem of indigenous peoples’ cultural property repatriation claims as such thus remains unresolved.