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Contents: Theory and concepts: Norms of international law relating to the constitution-making process -- Constitution making and the right to take part in a public affair -- Africa: Constitution making in Eritrea: a process-driven approach -- Namibia's long walk to freedom: the role of constitution making in the creation of an independent Namibia -- Creating the birth certificate of a new South Africa: constitution making after apartheid -- The Politics of constitution making in Uganda -- Zimbabwe's unfulfilled struggle for a legitimate constitutional order -- Asia and the pacific: The Process of creating a new constitution in Cambodia -- East Timor's constitutional passage to independence -- Between coups: constitution making in Fiji -- Europe: The Drafting process for the 1998 Albanian constitution -- The Dayton constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Constitution making and transitional politics in Hungary -- Constitution -- Constitution making, peace building, and national reconciliation: the experience of Poland -- Constitution making and democratization: the Spanish paradigm -- Latin America: Conflict resolution and constitutionalism: the making of the Brazilian constitution of 1988 -- Lessons of the Colombian constitutional reform of 1991: toward the securing of peace and reconciliation? -- The Nicaraguan constitutional experience process, conflict, contradictions, and change -- The 1999 Venezuelan constitution-making process as an instrument for framing the development of an authoritarian political regime -- Middle East and Central Asia: Big tent, small tent: the making of a constitution in Afghanistan -- Deconstituting Mesopotamia: cutting a deal on the regionalization of Iraq -- Conclusion: Designing constitution-making processes: lessons from the past, questions for the future.