Rainer Grote

While Southern countries have largely failed to bring about a new international economic order, they have been more successful in shaping the international agenda in the field of human rights, from the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its recent Protocol.

The general focus is on examining critical issues affecting the promotion of constitutionalism in Africa from a comparative perspective.

The focus of the study for this year, under the broad theme of constitution-building in Africa will be the issue of separation of powers.