Gerald Bareebe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at York University in Toronto, Canada. His research and teaching focus on the comparative politics of the Global South, with particular emphasis on civil wars, authoritarian regimes, and post-conflict governance. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto, as well as Master’s degrees in International Relations from Makerere University and in Governance and Development from the University of Antwerp.

His scholarship has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, including African Affairs, Civil Wars, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, and the Journal of Democracy, as well as in edited volumes on African and comparative politics. His most recent book, Social Structures and the Making of Museveni’s Civil-Authoritarian Regime in Uganda (Palgrave Macmillan), examines the resilience and longevity of President Yoweri Museveni’s regime in Uganda. It traces the evolution of the National Resistance Army (NRA) from a victorious insurgency into one of Africa’s most enduring regimes. The book shows how residual social structures—such as monarchies, churches, landed elites, and legacy political parties—persist through political upheaval, simultaneously constraining authoritarian consolidation while also underpinning the regime’s enduring hold on power.

As a Fellow at SCAS, Bareebe's current project investigates why and how civilians are targeted in civil wars through a systematic analysis of mass killings perpetrated by insurgent groups and state forces in northern and eastern Uganda. The study explains how political, social, and battlefield conditions converge to enable such violence, and how these dynamics shape the strategic and operational calculations through which armed actors justify, normalize, and carry out attacks against civilian populations.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2026-27.