Constitution Building Training Programme

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.

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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.

It is intended for politicians, public officials, legal practitioners, mediation experts, security sector staff, policy analysts, civil society advocates, media practitioners, lobbyists as well as international actors. Applying an interactive, problem-solving training methodology and a comparative approach, the curriculum is based on practical examples from around the world which can be adapted to other contexts.

Currently, CONNECT Resource covers the following learning modules:

Module 1

Introduction to constitution building

Module 2

Constitution building norms, principles and values

Module 3

Constitution building mechanisms and practices

Module 4

Constitution building for a human rights culture

Module 5

Building a culture of human rights: Ethnicity, religion and constitution building

Module 6

Constitution building for equality: Gender in post-conflict contexts

Module 7

The dynamics of power sharing and constitution building

Module 8

Governance for natural resource management

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