Constitution building processes play an important role in democratic reform, conflict management and peacebuilding.  However support to constitution building has not received the same level of scrutiny as other streams of assistance, such as electoral support, political party assistance, rule of law and others.  This dialogue is convened to interrogate practices of constitution building support among international actors.  Who are these external actors? How do their roles differ? What does constitution building assistance comprise of, and is it meeting the needs of national actors?  This event is the first in the International IDEA Constitution Building Programme Policy Series.

By invitation only.

The overall goal of organizing the conference was to help induct democratic norms, values and procedures in the new constitution of Nepal, and contribute to the institutionalization of principles of constitutionalism and rule of law to resolve conflict and permanently establish peace in Nepal. More

The conference brings together, at the invitation of the UK’s Ministry of Justice, officials, lawyers, judges, parliamentarians, constitutional experts and interested NGOs, from the UK and internationally, to discuss issues of accountability under democratic constitutions. What can the UK learn from countries with different systems or who are at different stages of developing their constitutional accountability? What are the risks and benefits in the process of redesigning the system? Learn more about the event here

The Constitution Building Processes (CBP) Programme at International IDEA and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Kenya organized the piloting of two modules of the Constitution Building Training Programme: “Introduction to post-conflict constitution building” and “Introduction to human and constitutional rights” modules.