The Venice Commission adopted the Rule of Law Checklist. The Checklist aims to enable an objective, thorough, transparent and equal assessment of the respect of the Rule of Law in a given country. Actors wishing to assess the respect of the Rule of Law in a country now have a reliable tool for doing so. This includes parliaments and other State authorities, civil society and international organisations.

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The goal of Interpeace’s Constitution-Making for Peace Programme is to support constitution-making processes that leads to a more durable peace. The programme promotes the principles of local ownership, inclusion, gender equality, participation and transparency. The programme highlights options for the constitution-making process so that the process contributes to national dialogue, consensus-building, greater social and political cohesion, conflict management, reconciliation and the strengthening of democratic principles, institutions and the rule of law.

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The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) is an intergovernmental organization that supports sustainable democracy worldwide. International IDEA’s mission is to support sustainable democratic change by providing comparative knowledge, and assisting in democratic reform, and influencing policies and politics.

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This is a database containing an extract from the NATO Standardization Document Database (NSDD) showing only the current (promulgated) documents. The NATO Standardization Office (NSO) is an independent NATO Office that reports to the Committee for Standardization (CS) Policy and Management and to the Military Committee (MC) for corporate oversight and issues relating to operational standardization. The mission of the NSO is to provide Standardization Management for NATO. Standardization Management encompasses in particular standardization policy; harmonization of NATO standardization activities; rules and regulations for development, ratification, promulgation, and support to implementation of standardization products; standardization management support to Tasking Authorities; terminology policy and guidelines, cooperation with civilian standardization bodies; publishing of NATO standards and standardization promotion.

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The toolkit contains a number of booklets that provide norms and standards, guidebooks as well as practical examples of model laws in various areas of security sector legislation. This toolkit is primarily addressed to all those who intend to create new or develop existing security sector legislation. This includes parliamentarians, civil servants, legal experts and nongovernmental organisations. The toolkit may also be helpful to security officials and, as a reference tool, to researchers and students interested in security sector legislation.

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