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Last Updated: December 17, 2008
Academic resources
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News and reports
Armon, Jeremy, Laura Gibbons and Dylan Hendrickson. Introduction: Cambodias Constitutional Challenge. In Safeguarding Peace: Cambodias Constitutional Challenge, edited by Dylan Hendrickson. Durban: African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 1998.Conflict Trends Magazine 1 (2001).
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International Crisis Group (ICG). Iraqs Constitutional Challenge. Brussels: ICG, November 2003.
Lajcák, Miroslav. European Momentum Is More Powerful than Obstructionist Forces. Office of the High Representative and European Union Special Representative, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Press Release, August 10, 2008.
Trouble in the East: The New Electoral Law Angers the Former Rebels and Could Set the Eastern Provinces Ablaze. Africa Confidential 47, no. 5 (2007).
Tsivhidzo, Edwin. South Africa: Learners to Be Taught Bill of Responsibility. AllAfrica, February 18, 2008.
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Policy analysis and practitioner documents
Autheman, Violaine. Global Lessons Learned: Constitutional Courts, Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law. Washington, DC: International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, 2004.Brandt, Michele. Constitutional Assistance in Post-Conflict Countries: The UN Experience: Cambodia, East Timor and Afghanistan. New York: United Nations, 2005.
Center for European Integration Strategies (CEIS). Overcoming the War in the Heads: Renewing Bosnias Constitutional Debate. Geneva: CEIS, May 2006.
Cottrell, Jill. A Glossary of Constitutional Terms. Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, December 2007.
Emeric, Rogier. The Inter-Congolese Dialogue: A Critical Overview. In Challenges of Peace Implementation: The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, edited by Mark Malan and João Gomes Porto, 25-42. Johannesburg: Institute for Security Studies, 2003.
Gaventa, John. Introduction: Exploring Citizenship, Participation and Accountability. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, 2002.
Ghai, Yash. The Constitution Reform Process: Comparative Perspectives. Paper presented at the conference, Toward Inclusive and Participatory Constitution Making, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 3-4, 2004.
Ghai, Yash, and Guido Galli. Constitution Building Processes and Democratization. Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2006.
Harris, Peter, and Benjamin Reilly. Democracy and Deep-Rooted Conflict: Options for Negotiators. Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 1998.
Hart, Vivien. Democratic Constitution Making. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, July 2003.
Horowitz, Donald L. Some Realism about Peacemaking. Paper presented at the conference Facing Ethnic Conflicts, Bonn, Germany, December 14-16, 2000.
Human Rights Watch. Ituri: Covered in Blood: Ethnically Targeted Violence in Northeastern DR Congo. New York: Human Rights Watch, July 2003.
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Juncos, Ana E. The EUs Post-Conflict Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina: (Re)Integrating the Balkans and/or (Re)Inventing the EU? Southeast European Politics 6, no. 2 (2005): 88-108.
Mamdani, Mahmood. When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Morrow, Jonathan. Iraqs Constitutional Process II: An Opportunity Lost. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, December 2005.
http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr155.html
Morrow, Jonathan. Weak Viability: The Iraqi Federal State and the Constitution Amendment Process. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, July 2006.
Olivier, Louise. Constitutional Review and Reform and the Adherence to Democratic Principles in Constitutions in Southern African Countries. Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2007.
Samuels, Kirsti. A Guidance Note: Developing a Constitution Building Strategy to Create Sustainable, Legitimate Constitutions. Kirsti Samuels Consulting, 2008.
Samuels, Kirsti. Constitutional Choices and Statebuilding in Postconflict Countries. In The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations, edited by Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk. London: Routledge, 2008.
Samuels, Kirsti, and Vanessa Hawkins Wyeth. State-Building and Constitutional Design after Conflict. New York: International Peace Academy, 2006.
Sebastiàn, Sofia. Leaving Dayton Behind: Constitutional Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Madrid: Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior, November 2007.
Shoemaker, Jolynn. By the People for the People: Constitution-Building, Gender and Democratization. Gender and Constitution-Building: From Paper to Practice: Critical Half Bi-Annual Journal of Women for Women International 3, no. 1 (2005).
Solioz, Christophe. Prospects for Balkan Stability: Ownership, Transitional Process and Regional Integration in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Geneva: Graduate Institute Program for the Study of International Organizations, August 2001.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Constitution and Its Relationship to the Legislature. New York:United Nations.
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United Nations and other official documents
African Union. African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.Asian Human Rights Commission. Asian Human Rights Charter.
Organization of American States. American Convention on Human Rights.
South African Government Information. Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 200 of 1993.
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United Nations. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
United Nations. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
United Nations. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
United Nations Secretary-General. Progress Report on the Prevention of Armed Conflict. UN Doc. A/60/891, 2006.
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Websites
Centre for Democracy and DevelopmentConstitution Finder, University of Richmond
Forum of Federations
Global Database of Quotas for Women, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and Stockholm University
Human Rights Library, University of Minnesota
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance: Democracy Building and Conflict Management, Constitution Building
Political Database of the Americas Constitutions and Comparative Constitutional Study, Center for Latin American Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
United Nations Peacemaker
