POST-WAR CONSTITUTION-MAKING: insights from South Asia

ABSTRACT This paper explores the search for constitutional settlement in Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka. In recent decades in each of these states, constitutional change has been mooted as an at least partial solution to severe and sustained internal armed conflict. However, in each of them, change of a kind that responds effectively to the conflict has been, and continues to be, elusive. Inevitably, the trajectories of both the conflict and the responses to it are distinctive. Nevertheless, these cases have enough in common for collective insights to be drawn from them, which may also have relevance for conflict-affected constitutional initiatives elsewhere.