Zimbabwe''s Constitutional Reform Process: Challenges and Prospects

This paper chronicles Zimbabwe’s constitutional-reform process (up to 2012). The paper traces the background to constitutional reform in Zimbabwe discusses the Constitutional Commission’s draft of 1999/2000 describes the development of a draft by the Constitutional Assembly (NCA) in 2001 outlines the process leading to the so-called Kariba Draft of 2007 chronicles the COPAC-led constitutional-reform process and discusses how the draft COPAC constitution deals with issues of justice and reconciliation. The final section focuses on prospects for a constitutional referendum in 2012 and for the likelihood of elections occurring thereafter.&nbsp