Knowledge tools
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Handbook
The Handbook reviews and discusses some of the institutional and procedural design choices that practitioners have recently considered during contemporary constitution building. It places power dynamics at the centre of constitutional negotiations recognising how the interests of those driving constitutional processes shape these choices.
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.
Country profiles
Country profiles give you a bird’s eye view of the constitutional history of selected countries. You can browse information on the constitutional history of countries and their most recent constitution building process.
Issue papers
Constitution building processes allow a number of critical subjects to be addressed for societies emerging from transition or undergoing conflict. In this section, 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.
Library
The virtual library allows you to search and download thousands of official documents from selected constitution building processes in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Web links
The web links provide a comprehensive list of relevant organizations and partners working in constitution building and related subjects.
Glossary
The glossary provides a comprehensive collection of common terms found in constitution building.
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. Such a role clearly generates ambiguity considering the significance attached to national ownership and legitimacy of constitutions. Questions regarding how this role should be constructed and the principles that should act as reference points are increasingly on the international agenda. In this section, users will participate in and follow emerging discussion on best practices that can contribute to more effective international partnership for constitution building.
FAQs
Here, a number of FAQs collected from real settings cutting across different thematic areas have been sent to our team of experts who have come up with some interesting answers.
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