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About MISR

The Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) has had a proud existence since its establishment in 1948. The secret of this pride has been its ability to change with the times, at times to muster t...

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GRADUATE EDUCATION

Four broad themes define the programme’s intellectual focus: Political Studies, Political Economy, Historical Studies, and Cultural Studies. Students specialise in one field, but take classes across all four.

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Commentary

Why is Growth Slowing in China?

The MISR Review

Research

Graduate Education

Featured work

Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy: States…

MISR Working Paper No. 29: MISR Views on the National Discussion on Makerere…

MISR Working Paper No. 21: Re-Thinking the Northern Identity: Local Government and…

News

The upcoming Publication, Djibouti: The Politics of a Strategic State by Samson Bezabeh. It will come out in May 2020

11 Nov 2019

A Conversation with Dr. Ossome on politics and activism:

08 Nov 2019

Excerpt from the book Decolonisation in Universities this Friday in the Mail & Guardian

07 Oct 2019

Events

29

Jan

LECTURE SERIES BY: RAEF ZREIK, MINERVA HUMANITIES CENTER AT TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY AND VAN LEER INSTITUTE., 'PALESTINE AS A QUESTION' Lecture 1, FRAMING.

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Jan

LECTURE SERIES BY: RAEF ZREIK,MINERVA HUMANITIES CENTER AT TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY AND VAN LEER INSTITUTE., 'PALESTINE AS A QUESTION' Lecture 2, JUSTICE.

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Feb

LECTURE SERIES BY: RAEF ZREIK, MINERVA HUMANITIES CENTER AT TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY AND VAN LEER INSTITUTE., 'PALESTINE AS A QUESTION' Lecture 3, DECOLONIZATION.

Latest Publications

The Impact of Governance on Research in Ugandan Universities

By A.B.K. Kasozi

MISR Working Paper No 30: Yemeni Diaspora, Law and Colonial Social Order in 1930 Djibouti.

By Samson A. Bezabeh

MISR Working Paper No. 29: MISR Views on the National Discussion on Makerere University

By A.B.K Kasozi & Mahmood Mamdani