Programs

Abe Fellowship Program

Supporting U.S. and Japan-based researchers focusing on contemporary issues

Abe fellow Kiyoteru Tsutsui speaks on "The Impact of Global Human Rights on Ethnic Social Movements."

Topics:

East Asia

The Abe Fellowship Program encourages international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program fosters the development of a new generation of researchers interested in policy-relevant topics and willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network. In partnership with the SSRC, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) established the Abe Fellowship Program as its flagship program in 1991. The Abe Fellowship Program now includes three core elements: the Abe Fellowship, the Abe Fellowship for Journalists, and the CGP-SSRC Policy Forum.

Founded through the efforts of Shintaro Abe, former Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, the mission of CGP is: to promote collaboration between Japan and the U.S. with the goal of fulfilling shared global responsibility and contributing to improvements in the world’s welfare; and to enhance dialogue and interchange between Japanese and U.S. citizens on a wide range of issues, thereby improving bilateral relations.

The Abe Fellowship Program achieves these goals by supporting high-quality research, building collaborative networks, promoting transnational lines of inquiry, and ensuring that the results of this research reach a wide group of policy makers and the public at large.