Course overview

Taking into account the apparent wave of constitution building sweeping across Africa: Kenya and Zimbabwe (recently completed), and Ghana, Liberia, Libya, South Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe (on-going), the Central European University (CEU) Summer School hosted an intensive one week course titled Constitution Building in Africa from June 24-June 29. The first of a project that will run every summer, the course addressed complex societal, political and legal problems in constitution-building in Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective, informed by field experience.

Course overview

South Sudan is currently engaged in a review process of its Transitional Constitution, which came into force on 9 July 2011, its date of independence from Sudan. The National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC) was established to review the transitional constitution, conduct a public consultation process, to conduct a nationwide civic education campaign, and to prepare and adopt a new draft constitution to be taken up by a National Constitutional Conference. In this context, International IDEA is supporting the constitution building process of South Sudan, and recently held on 27-30 June in Juba a capacity building workshop titled Constitution Building for Democracy.