The Syrian Constitutional Committee is a United Nations-authorized constituent assembly, which seeks to reconcile the Syrian Government headed by President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian opposition, in the context of the Syrian peace process, by amending the current or adopting a new Constitution of Syria. The UN hopes that this would lead to peace negotiations which would subsequently lead to a peaceful end of the Syrian Civil War, which had been raging for over eight years by the time of the committee's formation. It was formed with the formal approval of both parties involved, as well as the United Nations itself.[1]