Wednesdays@PAS: Vigilantes, Security Institutions, and Regime Longevity: Governing through Arbitrary Intervention in Northern Uganda

Come join PAS for our weekly lunch and lecture.  Lunch provided by PAS.

Speaker: Rebecca Tapscott, PhD candidate, Tufts University

Title: Vigilantes, Security Institutions, and Regime Longevity: Governing through Arbitrary Intervention in Northern Uganda

Abstract: This talk examines the relationship between Uganda's security institutions and regime longevity. It shows that uncertainty, in the form of unpredictable and harsh state interventions, plays a central role in the success of the ruling regime. In this way, the state fragments political and social resistance to its rule, remains ever-present in citizen’s imaginations while providing few services, and prevents citizens from making meaningful claims on the state.

Bio: Rebecca Tapscott is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School and a researcher for the Justice and Security Research Programme at the London School of Economics.

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