Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1979 to 2016

Ogenga Otunnu is Associate Professor at DePaul University, USA, as well as the founding Director of the Graduate Program in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at DePaul and co-founder of the Center for Forced Migration Studies at Northwestern University, USA. He has lectured at the summer program on refugees and forced migration at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Canada, for fifteen years and has trained human rights organizations and NGOs working with displaced population in every region of the globe. He is a consultant for the UNHCR, other international and regional organizations and governments. He has published extensively on genocide, political violence, refugee and forced migration, nationalism, African philosophies, crisis of legitimacy, the African state, the African Renaissance, and human rights.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Political Violence under the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) 1979-1980.- 3. Political Violence under the Obote II Regime, 1980-1985.- 4. Political Violence during the Tito Okello Regime, July 1985 to January 1986.- 5. Political Violence under the Museveni Regime, 1985-2016.