Kasaija Phillip Apuuli is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Makerere University (Uganda). He holds a doctor of philosophy (DPhil) degree in international law, University of Sussex at Brighton, United Kingdom. He is the winner of the 2009 Mary Kingsley/Zochonis Lecture prize of the Royal African Society (RAS) and African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK); he was a 2010 British Academy Visiting Scholar at African Studies Centre, University of Oxford; and a 2016 Fulbright Scholar in Residence, University of South Florida (St. Petersburg) and Stetson School of Law (Gulfport), Florida, USA. He has previously served as the Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution-Advisor at the IGAD Secretariat, Djibouti (2008); Assistant IGAD Facilitator for Somalia Peace and National Reconciliation, Addis Ababa (2009); and programme manager, Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis, Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Addis Ababa (2013–2014).