Access the Jirga

is the third section of the Kabul: Reconstructions web project (2002-07), and is based on video, audio, text and ephemera collected during the Constitutional Loya Jirga, the Afghan constitutional assembly held in a tent complex on the campus of the Kabul Polytechnic University in late December 2003 and early January 2004.

Additional information on the CLJ (as it was more or less affectionately abbreviated by participants in the process) can be found in the following places:

- the FOLLOW THE INFORMATION section of the Kabul: Reconstructions web project, which includes an archive of most of the mass media coverage of the CLJ

-the "official unofficial" translation of the Afghan constitution as adopted at the CLJ, on this government site

-the International Constitutional Law website, which has posted an unofficial English translation of the Afghan constitution as adopted at the CLJ, with terms specific to Afghanistan substituted with international equivalents

-Wikipedia's article on the Constitution Commission drafting process and responses to the original draft, which includes links to original UNAMA and UNHCR documents

-this project's informal PDF guide to the interactive CLJ map

-and several audio interviews with various participants in the process, conducted during and after the CLJ, which will be added to this page over the next months.