Crowd-sourcing a New Constitution for Sri Lanka: Mind the Gaps!
- - on 01/19/2016
Sri Lanka wants to make a new Constitution in a radically different way. It is poised to become the first developing country in the world to ‘crowd-source’ ideas for making the highest law of the land.
That is all well and good – as long as the due process is followed, and that process has intellectual rigour, transparency and integrity. Therein lies the big challenge.
On 17 January 2016, Prime Minister of Ranil Wickremesinghe outlined the new constitution-making process as “inclusive, transparent and in line with election pledges”.
