Adam Taylor

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, Foreign Desk, The Washington Post

Proposal Title: Going up? Japan’s race to build the fastest elevators in the world in a slowing China

Sophia Yan

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Reporter, CNN Money, CNN

Proposal Title: Women Matter: Unlocking Japan's Full Economic Potential

Robert Simiyu

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Social Sciences, Moi University

Proposal Title: Cultural Geographies of Peacebuilding and the (Re)production of Power Asymmetries in Mount Elgon Region, Kenya

Jacinta Maweu

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Nairobi

Proposal Title: Are Media Catalysts of Conflict or Messengers of Peace? Navigating Inter-Faith Dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Mombasa, Kenya

Malango Washikala

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): International Peace Information Service (IPIS)

Proposal Title: An Analysis of the Link Between Armed Groups and Unregulated Mineral Extraction in Eastern DRC: Case Studies of South and North Kivu Provinces

Asebe Debelo

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute of Indigenous Studies, Dilla University

Proposal Title: Competing Forms of Legitimacy and Questions of Peacebuilding Along the Ethiopia-Kenya Border

Mesfin Tilaye

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Environment and Climate Change Management, Ethiopian Civil Service University

Proposal Title: Mapping Water Conflicts and Best Management Practices in Pastoralist Areas in Ethiopia and Djibouti

Pamela Khanakwa

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Archaeology, and Heritage Studies, Makerere University

Proposal Title: “We Never Sold Our Land”: Contested Ownership and Ensuing Conflicts Over Land in Bulambuli District

Johannes John-Langba

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Social Development, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: Resiliency in the Context of Xenophobic Violence: The Case of Somali Migrants in South Africa

Dauda Garuba

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Nigeria Officer, Natural Resource Governance Institute

Proposal Title: The Resource Factor in Inter-Communal Conflicts in Nigeria: A Comparative Study of Warri and Wukari

Boubacar Diallo

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Literature, Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey

Proposal Title: Fighting and Cooperating for Water in African Pastoralist Communities: A Study of Trans-border Conflict and Peacebuilding in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger

Musa Abdul-Jalil

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Social Science, University of Khartoum

Proposal Title: Mapping Water Conflicts and Best Management Practices in Pastoralist Areas in the Sudan

Kenneth Nwoko

Competition: Residential Postdoctoral Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History & International Studies, McPherson University

Proposal Title: The Nigeria-Cameroon Border Conflict Settlement and Matters Arising: Failed Pacification of the Bakassi People and Lessons for Post-conflict Peacebuilding Approaches

Bo Tao

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Yale University

Proposal Title: Religion, Reform, and Opportunism in Transwar Japan: Kagawa Toyohiko and the Shifting Showa State

Nicholas Lambrecht

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Chicago

Colin Jones

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Columbia University

Proposal Title: School of International Letters and Cultures

Matt Krebs

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Kentucky

Proposal Title: Making Experts: An Ethnographic Study of "Makers" in FabLabs in Japan

Lawrence Ocen

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Academic Registrar/Literature, Makerere Univeristy

Proposal Title: Reading Monuments: Politics and Poetics of Memory in Postwar Northern Uganda

Kester Onor

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Proposal Title: United States Africa Command and Human security in Africa.

Jacqueline Mgumia

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: CHOICES ON MONEY: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, LIVELIHOOD AND YOUTH ASPIRATION IN TANZANIA

Odette Murara

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology & Sociology, University of the Western Cape

Proposal Title: ‘Performing diversity’: Everyday social interaction among migrants from the Great Lakes region and South Africans in Cape Town

Simon Kizito

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Mental Health and Community Psychology, Stellenbosch University

Proposal Title: Maternal Mental Health: A Longitudinal cohort study of predictors and Its impact on infant growth and development in post -war torn rural Masaka District, Uganda.

Numvi Gwaibi

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Pretoria

Proposal Title: Decentralisation and Community Participation: An Ethnography of Local Development and Municipal Politics in Cameroon.

John Baligira

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): HISTORY, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: Land rights and conflict in Uganda: A case study of Kibaale district since 1962

Anthony Diala

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Private Law, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: Recognition of living customary law in Nigeria: women’s access to land under customary law of succession in South-east Nigeria