In addition to the law outlined in the preceding chapters, there is a miscellany of other international rules relevant to the protection of cultural property in armed conflict. Some are treaty-based, some customary. Some are rules of international humanitarian law, some not. Many illustrate the wider normative influence of the vision of a universal cultural heritage and, in some cases, of the 1954 Hague Convention specifically.

Treaties

1980 and 1996 protocols on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of mines, Booby-Traps and other devices

In 1980, the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects was adopted, along with three Protocols to it, among them the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices. The Convention and its Protocols apply to those situations outlined in article 2 common to the four Geneva Conventions, namely international armed conflicts, and to those conflicts deemed international by article 1(4) of Additional Protocol I.

Article 6(1)(b)(ix) of 1980 Protocol II, which is without prejudice to those rules of the law of armed conflict relating to treachery and perfidy, prohibits in all circumstances the use of booby-traps which are in any way attached to or associated with historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples.