"Culture is a Basic Need" is dedicated to raising awareness of the issues revolving around cultural emergencies and to reflecting on the importance of culture for the psychological survival of people in disaster situations. This 14th journal of the Prince Claus Fund that was launched at the international conference, "Culture is a Basic Need: Responding to Cultural Emergencies", held in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 25 and 26 September 2006. The conference was a part of the Fund’s Cultural Emergency Response (CER) program, which aims to provide global ‘first aid’ for cultural heritage that is threatened by man-made or natural disasters. "Culture is a Basic Need" can be downloaded here. For more on the Prince Claus Fund's CER program, CLICK HERE