Jude Kagoro
Dr. Jude Kagoro
UNICOM, Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 (Haus Wien)
Raum: 7.2120
Tel.: +49 421 218-67486
jude.kagoro@uni-bremen.de
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 6th, 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.
Since 2022, Jude has been a postdoctoral researcher in the four-year project “KNOWPRO: Knowledge Production in German Peace and Security Policy", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Since 2022, Jude has been a postdoctoral researcher in the four-year project “KNOWPRO: Knowledge Production in German Peace and Security Policy,” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Using Afghanistan and Somalia as case studies, KNOWPRO explores how peace and security policy knowledge is produced in Germany and East Africa, particularly in relation to military and financial interventions in internal conflicts.
The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Bremen, Kiel, and Erfurt, with each hosting a professor and a postdoctoral researcher:
- University of Bremen: Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte and Dr. Jude Kagoro (Institute for Intercultural and International Studies – InIIS).
- University of Kiel: Prof. Dr. Dirk Nabers and Dr. Frank Stengel (Political Sociology).
- University of Erfurt: Prof. Dr. Sophia Hoffmann and Dr. Amelie Harbisch.
The research aims to identify factors shaping security policy knowledge, assess how insights from peace and conflict studies influence institutional policymaking, and explore the relationship between academic and political knowledge production. Findings will inform recommendations for academia, policy advisors, and government institutions.
Selection
2025 (With Klaus Schlichte and Julian Friesinger): The Foreign Policies of East African States. London: Routledge.
2024 (with Sarah Biecker and Klaus Schlichte)—The Measuring State: Technologies of Government in Uganda and Elsewhere. In: Richard Rottenburg and Eva Riedke (eds.). Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation. Leiden: Brill.
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. London/Berlin: 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
Selection
March 2025: Keynote speech, Kampala Rotary Club, “The Foreign Policies of East African States”.
November 2024: “The Complex Cocktail of Foreign Intervention in Somalia: A scrutiny of the endless war against the Al-Shabaab”, Erfurt University.
September 2024: Keynote speech at the High Level Policy Dialogue. “The Future of Democracy: Threats and Opportunities”, organized by Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) in partnership with Netherlands Institute for Multi-Party Democracy (NIMD)—Uganda.
August 2024: Talk at the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces Headquarters at Mbuya Kampala, "Understanding Foreign Military Intervention in Somalia"
Jan 2024: “A review of the 2021 electoral violence in Uganda” at: “Uganda’s neoliberalism at 40 Taking stock of the operation of an exemplary market society in East Africa” conference held at Makerere University Kampala, Uganda. https://misr.mak.ac.ug/events/ugandas-neoliberalism-at-40-taking-stock-of-the-operations-of-an-exemplary-market-society-in
April 2024: Panelist, "Public lecture on the 30th Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda” held at Makerere University Kampala, Uganda. https://softpower.ug/kwibuka30-ignites-calls-for-unity-and-reconciliation-at-makerere-public-lecture/
Selection
Rwanda’s Miracle and its Magicians. A Micro-Sociological Personal Perspective of the Country. Independent Magazine, 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. Independent Magazine
, 321: www.independent.co.ug/column/comment/9063-ugandas-homosexuality-debate.
The danger of the crowd mentality: Demonstrations versus socio-political order in Kampala. Independent Magazine
, 312: www.independent.co.ug/news/news-analysis/8875-the-danger-of-the-crowd-mentality