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International assistance

The role of international or external support for national processes of constitution building has an instrumental impact on the design of these processes and the institutional choices that ultimately are framed in constitutions.

Training programme

The new Constitution Builders CONNECT Resource – is an interactive training tool that reinforces sharing experiences as a means to building the capacity of practitioners to solve some of the dilemmas that they face in constitution building.

Handbook

The Handbook reviews and discusses some of the institutional and procedural design choices that practitioners have recently considered during contemporary constitution building.

Issue papers

Selected issues are considered at length based on emerging and ongoing dialogues among practitioners and specialists.

Multimedia

A collection of multimedia resources from and about constitution-building processes.

Web links

The web links provide a comprehensive list of relevant organizations and partners working in constitution building and related subjects.

Anthony Regan

Anthony Regan is a constitutional lawyer and a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University (ANU). His main fields of research are law and politics of constitutions, conflict and reconciliation, and the design of the state as part of post-conflict political settlements. He has been a constitutional adviser to the governments of Papua New Guinea and Uganda, having lived and worked in both countries.

Hassen Ebrahim

Hassen Ebrahim received his law degree at the University of Edinburgh and Botswana and has since then become an important political figure in South Africa. Hassen Ebrahim spent 12 years in exile from South Africa because of his membership in the African National Congress. He returned from exile in 1991 to assist the ANC in establishing its legal structures within the country. Later in 1991, he joined the ANC's National negotiations team as its National Coordinator to facilitate the constitutional negotiations at Codesa and the Multi-Party Negotiations.

Renata Segura

Renata Segura is the Program Officer for the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, a program of the Social Science Research Council, where she leads the work in Latin America and the Caribbean. CPPF seeks to strengthen the knowledge base and analytical capacity of the United Nations system in the fields of conflict prevention and management, peacemaking and peace-building by providing UN staff with a systematic channel in which outside experts can further their national, regional, or thematic analysis in the area of conflict.   Segura received her Ph.D.

Fink Haysom

Nicholas “Fink” Haysom of South Africa was appointed as Director for Political Affairs in his Executive Office by UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in May 2007.  Prior to this, Mr Haysom served as the head of UNAMI's ‘Office of Constitutional Support' from April 2005.  Since leaving his position as Legal Advisor to President Mandela in 1999, Haysom has been engaged in resolving internal conflicts and advising on constitutional reform in East and Central Africa, and South and South East Asia.

Rohan Edrisinha

Rohan Edrisinha is a member of the faculty of law at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he specializes in constitutional law. Dr. Edrisinha is also a founder, director and head of the Legal Division at the Centre for Policy Alternatives, an independent public policy institute engaged in research and advocacy within the fields of conflict resolution, constitutional and law reform, human rights and governance. Edrisinha holds an LL.B from University of Colombo and an LL.M from the University of California, Berkeley.