David Ngendo-Tshimba

He currently heads the Centre for African Studies at Uganda Martyrs University, where he also lectures in its Department of Governance, Peace and International Studies. David holds an interdisciplinary doctorate in History and Political Studies from MISR of Makerere University. He is recipient of a great many research fellowships, including with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) on a book project on peace and security in Africa’s Great Lakes region (2014- 17), with Action for Development (ACFODE) on an ethnographic fieldwork on war-related harms and violated bodies in forced displacement settings to and in Uganda (2019-22), and more recently with the Refugee Law Project (RLP) of Makerere University’s School of Law in partnership with the Irish Centre for Human Rights of the University of Galway on a policy research concerned with the forced migration-human trafficking nexus in and through Uganda (2020- 23). David’s research interests include (political) violence, (forced) migration, and (social) justice, with particular focus on Africa’s Great Lakes region.