■ South South Regional Symposium on Constitution Building, Jakarta, Indonesia

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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When: 12 Oct 2009 - 15 Oct 2009
Theme: Constitutional Design for Diversity and Conflict
The Constitution Building Processes Programme at International IDEA, with support from the IDRC - Canada, convened  this event in partnership with the Non Aligned Movement Center for South South Technical Cooperation (NAM CSSTC) from 12-15 October 2009 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Drawing from experiences in South and South East Asia, the over 30 Constitution building practitioners and academics coming from South and South East Asia, Latin America and Africa shared experiences and knowledge on how constitutional design has assisted the performance of the state in addressing diversity-driven conflict. Participants presented papers touching on key issues issues such as language, culture, religion, ethnicity, and gender. Click on abstracts under menu to the left to read the full papers.

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This event has now passed. Thank you to all the participants who took part in this meeting.  Please check constitutionnet.org for  workshop documents and future events. Otherwise, contact Tayuh Ngenge for any further inquiries.

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