Shinsuke Tanaka

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Proposal Title: Clearing the Air: Comparing and Evaluating Environmental Policies in the Automobile Industry in Japan and the United States

Hirofumi Uchida

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University

Proposal Title: Research on startup finance in the U.S.

Adam Liff

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Japan and the Evolution of Washington's Post-Cold War Asia-Pacific Strategy

Kohei Watanabe

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Sociology, Teikyo University

Proposal Title: Food waste in Japan, US, and Europe - detailed grasp of the magnitude, and analyses on the formation of awareness

Charles Mooney Jr

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania

Proposal Title: Japanese Markets for Private Business Credit: Prospects for Modernizing Japanese Secured Transactions Law

Kunio Nishikawa

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University

Proposal Title: The future direction of Japan's rice farming industry under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) regime: An approach from California

Kyunghee Lee

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Michigan State University

Proposal Title: Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Poverty on Children's Developmental Outcomes: Japan and the US

Nicole Darnall

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, School of Public Affairs and the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Proposal Title: Sustainable Public Procurement in Japanese Local Governments: A Multicity and U.S. Cross-comparative Analysis

Lindy Heinecken

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2013

Proposal Title: Enhancing the Capacity of Female Peacekeepers and Local Women in Building Peace in Africa

Peace Medie

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy, Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy

Proposal Title: Security and Justice in Côte d’Ivoire: A Study of Women’s Responses to Gender-Based Violence

Jimam Lar

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History and International Studies Department

Proposal Title: Plurality, Local Authority, and Conflict Resolution: Prospects and Challenges from Central Nigerian Conflict Theaters, 2000–2015

Fekadu Tufa

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Social Anthropology

Proposal Title: Understanding Conflicts and Peacebuilding Practices in the Context of Multiple Actors: The Case of the Somali Region of Ethiopia

Nkwachukwu Orji

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute for Development Studies

Proposal Title: Peacebuilding and Separatism in Nigeria: Democracy, Peace Settlement, and Biafran Separatism

Joyce Omwoha

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Communication and Media Studies

Proposal Title: From Street Sentiments to Online Sentiments: Negotiating Peace through Social Media Activism in Kenya

Jacinta Nwaka

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History and International Studies Department

Proposal Title: The Ambivalence of the Sacred”: Religion, Peace, and Conflict in Northcentral Nigeria

Philani Moyo

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Proposal Title: An Appraisal of Climate Change Security Risks and Local Conflicts in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Enock Makupa

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Proposal Title: Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: Assessing Community Participation in the Natural Gas Sector in Tanzania

Dereje Dori

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Addis Ababa University

Proposal Title: The Afar–Issa Conflict in Eastern Ethiopia: A Case Study of an Intractable Conflict and Conflict Resolution Practices

Meron Eresso

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Center for Human Rights

Proposal Title: Women as Agents of Peace in Africa: Women’s Role in Customary Institutions of Conflict Resolution in Ethiopia

Amanda Coffie

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD)

Proposal Title: Engaging in Peacebuilding from the Outside: The Case of the Liberian Refugee Diaspora in Canada

Ibrahim Bangura

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Peace and Conflict Studies

Proposal Title: What the Youth Say: Youth and the Democratization Process in Guinea

Richard Alemdjrodo

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Proposal Title: UN Security Council-Regional Organization Relations: Did ECOWAS Intervention in Liberia and Sierra Leone Introduce a New Paradigm in International Law?

Abosede Babatunde

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies

Proposal Title: The Curse of Oil: Unpacking the Challenges to Food Security in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region

Ryan Moran

Competition: 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ethnic Studies

Proposal Title: Tabling Death: Life Insurance in Modern Japan, 1881-1973

Midori Yamamura

Competition: 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History

Proposal Title: Japanese Art Since 1989: Emergence of tlte Local in the Age of Globalization