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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JLP</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Law And Politics</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">JLP</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="print">2671-342X</issn>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2671-3438</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Balkan University Press</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">165</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>CONSTITUTION BUILDING IN POST CONFLICT STATES</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Karovska Andonovska</surname>
            <given-names>Biljana</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-03-01">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>34</fpage>
      <lpage>39</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">
          <license-p>CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://jlp.ibupress.com/articles/constitution-building-in-post-conflict-states" />
      <self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="https://jlp.ibupress.com/file/314/57-pdf.pdf" />
      <abstract>
        <p>One of the key elements of post-conflict peace and post-conflict state building is the creation of a new legal order as an appropriate tool for political and governance transition. In this sense, the adoption of a new constitution after a conflict, especially an armed conflict, and particularly an internal armed conflict, is a main component and necessity of a political transition. Post-conflict constitution-building can certainly provide an opportunity to shape the institutional and governance framework. The Constitution can play in some way, a peace agreement role, but it is surely a framework that sets up the rules by which the state will function in the future. Hence, the adoption of a new constitution by post-conflict states signalizes a clear break with the past. This paper is focused on the constitutional process as one of the main aspects of post-conflict state-building. In this sense, we tried to find adequate answers to several, according to the author’s opinion, relevant questions regarding legal and political processes followed by many challenges and opportunities.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>post-conflict states</kwd>
        <kwd>fragility</kwd>
        <kwd>constitution building</kwd>
        <kwd>participation</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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