Creating a Constitution for Eritrea

Issue Date April 1998
Volume 9
Issue 2
Page Numbers 164-74
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About the Author

Bereket Habte Selassie served as chairman of the Eritrean Constitutional Commission from 1994 to 1997. A native of Eritrea, he is William E. Leuchtenberg Professor of African Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Conflict and Intervention in the Horn of Africa (1980) and Eritrea and the United Nations (1988).

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