Journal
The Constitution is a quarterly and multi-disciplinary journal for nurturing constitutional development in Nigeria. Apart from scholarly output, it is didactic in its presentation in terms with its objectives of keeping the democratic actors abreast of political developments in other countries, promoting a culture of informed debate and consensus building, engaging parliamentary procedures through appraisals of debates, bills and acts of parliament and providing a forum for critical interpretation of the Constitution. Its publication began in September 2000.The Constitution Journal, Nigeria Project is in the main about the production of a quarterly journal titled: The Constitution . It is complemented with the annual democracy lecture scheduled for the last quarter of the current project year.
The democracy lecture aims at fostering debate on developments in the polity.
The Constitution began circulation in September 2000 with the support of National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Its current print-run is 1220 copies. The journal has a target audience comprising public officials, publicists, the media, academics and the military among others. Its objectives include the following:
• Keeping the public and the democratic actors abreast of development and processes for sustaining democracy in other countries.
• Promoting a culture of debate, constitutional compromise and consensus building among democratic actors.
• Encouraging democratic actors to always play by the rules of the game
• Encouraging parliamentary procedure through critical report of debate bill and acts of parliament.
• Providing a forum for critical interpretation of the constitution by constitutional experts and publicists.
• Educating the lawmakers at the various levels of government on parliamentary ethics and procedures.
• Informing policy makers on constitutional trends and development in other countries where democracy thrives.
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
We wish to introduce our newly constituted international editorial advisory board members to our numerous readers and contributors.
The board comprises
Peter J. Schraede
A Professor of Political Science at Loyola University, Chicago, USA and currently spending the 2004/05 academic session teaching at Loyola University, Rome Centre, Italy;
Professor Dean A. Minix
Department of Political Science/Criminal Justice, Northern Kentucky University, USA;
Professor Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Director, United Nations Development Programme, Norway;
David Simon
Professor of Developmental Geography and Director, Centre for Developing Area Research, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Timothy M. Shaw
Professor of Commonwealth Governance and Development and Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom
Kelechi Kalu
Professor of Political Science, University of Northern Colorado, USA and Professor Ansa K. Asamoa, a prominent Ghanaian scholar and formerly of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is currently in private consultancy.