Peter G. Stone, OBE, FSA (born 1957) is a British heritage professional and academic, who is the current UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University.

[6][7] After completing his master's degree (MA) in archaeological method and theory at the University of Southampton in 1983, he started carrying out his PhD research on a part-time basis.

[5][8] His thesis, supervised by Professor Peter Ucko, titled Teaching the Past, with Special Reference to Prehistory, in English Primary Education.

Other appointments have included chairing the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site Management Plan Committee and sitting on the National Trust's Archaeology Advisory Panel.

WAC seeks to promote interest in the past in all countries, to encourage the development of regionally based histories and to foster international academic interaction.

During the Iraq War in 2003, Stone was contacted by a friend serving in the Royal Navy, working at the time in the UK Ministry of Defence.

One, the most recent Director of the British school of Archaeology in Iraq, provided a list of 36 Iraqi sites, covering a range of time periods, and both stressed the likelihood of looting during the conflict.

Stone sent the information and the warning to the MoD, highlighting the UKs legal obligations around cultural property protection, and continued to lobby (ultimately unsuccessfully) to brief the Ministry of Defence.

[18][19] From this experience, he wrote extensively on the topic of cultural property protection in the event of armed conflict and the necessity of working with military forces to develop effective safeguarding measures.

[18][20] In addition to receiving the James R Wiseman Award of the Archaeological Institute of America,[21] the book was highlighted as 'Book of the Week' in the Times Higher Education, where it was described as: an extraordinary achievement that will stand as the definitive account of the desperate, avoidable cultural tragedy of Iraq for many years to come.

[28] The contribution featured in part 6.2 of the final report "6.2 - Military planning for the invasion, January to March 2003", in the section Sites of religious and cultural significance.

"[23] Stone's work and lobbying were also highly influential in the UK's ratification of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict in 2017.

[21] In 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to heritage education.