{"id":14,"date":"2026-11-05T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glcus.local\/index.php\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:41:30","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chuss.mak.ac.ug\/glc\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Background<\/h2>\n<p>Towards the end of 2024, the Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University, received a start-up grant from the United States Mission, Kampala to establish the Great Lakes Center for the Study of the United States.<\/p>\n<h2>Our Mission<\/h2>\n<p>To build synergies between the professional and scholarly communities in the United States and the Great Lakes Region of Africa.<\/p>\n<h2>Our Objective<\/h2>\n<p>Facilitate dialogue, professional partnerships, scholarly collaborations, and exchanges between professionals, scientists, and academics in the United States and the Great Lakes Region of Africa.<\/p>\n<h2>Our Pillars<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Research<\/li>\n<li>Dialogue<\/li>\n<li>Partnerships<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Center seeks to advance knowledge and deepen mutual understanding through scholarly research, dialogue and partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Towards the end of 2024, the Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University, received a start-up grant from the United States Mission, Kampala to establish the Great Lakes Center for the Study of the United States. Our Mission To build synergies between the professional and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuss.mak.ac.ug\/glc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuss.mak.ac.ug\/glc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuss.mak.ac.ug\/glc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuss.mak.ac.ug\/glc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuss.mak.ac.ug\/glc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuss.mak.ac.ug\/glc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuss.mak.ac.ug\/glc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}