Jude Kagoro
Dr. Jude Kagoro holds a Doctoral Degree in Sociology obtained in 2013 at Bayreuth University, Germany. Since 2013, Dr. Kagoro has been working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS). Presently, he is working in the German Ministry of Education and Research funded project “Knowledge Production in Peace and Security Policy”. The Project focuses on military intervention and Dr. Kagoro is particularly researching on the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) military involvement in Somalia within the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) framework. He previously co-directed a research project “Figurations of Internationalized Rule in Africa” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project focused on post-war situations in Africa using Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya as case studies. Between June 2013 and August 2018 he worked in another DFG funded project “Policing in Africa Project”.
Dr. Kagoro has done consultancies with the Rwanda National Police (RNP), the Uganda Police Force (UPF), and the German Corporation for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit—GIZ). He has published widely on themes of militarization, security, and policing.
On February 06 2018, Dr. Kagoro was awarded the Golden Jubilee Award by the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for his contributions towards the professionalization of the Uganda Police Force.
Selected Publications
Forthcoming (With Klaus Schlichte and Julian Friesinger): The Foreign Policy of East African States. London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
Forthcoming: The Police and the Community in Post-Genocide. Switzerland: Springer.
2024 Uganda: authoritarianism in the age of regular elections - a review of the 2021 electoral violence. In: Lindstaedt Natasha & Jeroen J.J. den Bosch (eds.): Research Handbook on Authoritarianism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited Pp. 331–355. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204827.00032
2024 Can the AU’s achievements in Somalia survive global geopolitical, security and economic competition? The Pan Africa Review 29 March 2024 https://panafricanreview.com/can-the-aus-achievements-in-somalia-survive-global-geopolitical-security-and-economic-competition/
2023 Status Quo at all Costs: Human Rights Abuses during the 2021 Elections in Uganda. Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), working paper Nr. 43-2023. https://www.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/fachbereiche/fb8/fb8_iniis_upload/Aktuelles/InIIS_Arbeitspapiere/InIIS-AP_2023_43_Kagoro-StatusQuoAtAllCosts.pdf
2023 Burundi: Intelligence Culture in Troubled Political Waters. In: African Handbook for Intelligence. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9781538159989/the-handbook-of-african-intelligence-cultures
2022 Inside an African Police Force: The Ugandan Police Examined. Switzerland: Springer
2020 Uganda: A Perspective on Politico-Military Fusion. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press: New York. www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780190921514.001.0001/acref-9780190921514-e-1861
2019 Rwanda’s Community Policing Model: All about the Umuturage. Rwanda National Police: Kigali.
2018 The Crime Preventers Scheme: A Community Policing Initiative for Regime Security in Uganda. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding-Tailor and Francis group, 13 (1), pp. 41-56. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17502977.2018.1501982
2017 The Power Game: Organizational Politics, Intrigue and Machiavellism in the Ugandan Police Force. InIIS Working paper.
2016 Competitive Authoritarianism in Uganda: The Not so Hidden Hand of the Military. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, vol 10(1), pp. 155-172.
2016 With Joschka Phillips, The Metastable City and the Politics of Crystallisation: Protesting and Policing in Kampala, in: Africa Spectrum, 51 (3), pp. 3–32.
2015 Competitive Authoritarianism in Uganda: The Not so Hidden Hand of the Military. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (DOI) 10.1007/s12286-015-0261-x link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12286-015-0261-x "The final publication is available at link.springer.com.”
2015 Militarization in Post-1986 Uganda: Politics, Military and Society Interpenetration. Münster: LIT Verlag.
2014 Militarization or Improved Policing? The Interplay Between the Military and the Police in Uganda. In: Samuel Kale Ewusi & Jean Bosco Butera (eds.), Beyond State-Building: Confronting Africa’s Governance and Socio-Economic Challenges in the 21st Century. Addis Ababa, San Jose: UPEACE Africa Programme, University for Peace. 99-125. www.africa-upeace.org/images/pdfs/Publications/BeyondStateBuilding.pdf
Selected Media Articles
Rwanda’s Miracle and its Magicians. A Micro-Sociological Personal Perspective of the Country. In: Independent Magazine, issue. 500.
www.independent.co.ug/rwandas-miracle-magicians/
Prof. Ali Mazrui: The Kenyan, the African and the De Facto Ugandan. In: Pan African Visions, 15 Dec 2014. Online: panafricanvisions.com/2014/prof-ali-mazrui-kenyan-african-de-facto-ugandan/
Uganda’s Homosexuality Debate: Why homosexuality and alternative sexuality will be tolerated in Uganda in the near future. In: Independent Magazine, Kampala, issue. 321. Online: www.independent.co.ug/column/comment/9063-ugandas-homosexuality-debate.
The danger of the crowd mentality: Demonstrations versus socio-political order in Kampala. In: Independent Magazine, Kampala, issue. 312. Online: www.independent.co.ug/news/news-analysis/8875-the-danger-of-the-crowd-mentality