Kaori Hayashi

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Interfaculty Initiative of Information Studies, University of Tokyo

Proposal Title: Reconfiguring the Role of Professional Journalism: A Comparative Study of Media's Public Rationale in the US and Japan in the Digital Age

Shinsuke Ikeda

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University

Proposal Title: Self-Control and Consumer Behaviors Under Depletable Willpower: Theory and International Evidence

Shoko Kiyohara

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, School of Information and Communications, Meiji University

Proposal Title: U.S.-Japan Comparative Study on Election Systems in the Internet Age: Internet Election Campaigns and E-voting

Kay Shimizu

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Political Science, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Liberalization and the distancing of politics: the case of agricultural reforms in Japan

Jordan Sand

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, History, Georgetown University

Proposal Title: A Tokyo Model? Lessons for Contemporary Asian Megacities from Local Microhistories of Housing and Infrastructure Development in Tokyo

Jaganath Sankaran

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Postdoctoral Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Proposal Title: Fostering Military Stability and Nuclear Nonproliferation in Northeast Asia

Masaru Yarime

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo

Proposal Title: University-Industry-Government Collaboration for Innovation to Address Grand/Societal Challenges: Comparative Analysis of Science and Technology Policy in Japan, Europe, and the United States

Gene Park

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Political Science, Loyola Marymount University

Proposal Title: Tax Structure, Politics, and Deficits

Hiroko Aihara

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Director, Japan Perspective News Inc.

Proposal Title: Towards Building a Consensus in a Democratic Society - Policy-making to Support Disaster Survivors in the Context of Nuclear Uncertainty

Adam Tanner

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Proposal Title: Different Approaches in Japan and the United States in the Multi-Billion Dollar Hidden Trade in Our Private Medical Data

Kim Gittleson

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Business Reporter, BBC News Online, BBC

Proposal Title: Should a Company Live Forever? Lessons for US Economic and Corporate Policy From Japan's Shinise

Sharon Weinberger

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Reporter, Freelance

Proposal Title: Beyond Human: An Exploration of Japan's Robotic Culture

Gladman Thondhlana

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Rhodes University

Proposal Title: Co-Management and Conflicts in South African Protected Areas: What Can We Learn?

Riziki Shemdoe

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ardhi University

Proposal Title: Roles of Local Institutions in Reducing Pastoralist–Farmer Conflicts in Tanzania: The Case of Kilosa and Mvomero Districts

Victor Okorie

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife

Proposal Title: From Oil to Water Wars? Unpacking the Brutal Violence of Living with Polluted and Commoditized Waterscapes in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

Fredrick Ogenga

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Rongo University College

Proposal Title: The Media and Deconstruction of Violence in the Context of Terrorism for Long-lasting Peace and Security in Kenya

Stella Nyanzi

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Makerere University

Proposal Title: Queerying Peacebuilding After the Sexual Violence of War: Gendered Gaps in Implementing UNSCR 1325 and 1820

TERENCE MASHINGAIDZE

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Midlands State University

Proposal Title: Unmasking Silences and Impunity: The Zimbabwe Peace Project’s Mediations in Entrenching Amity in a Polarized Political Dispensation, 2000-2013

Duncan Omanga

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Moi University

Proposal Title: Healing of Postconflict Zones and 'Chieftancy' in the Social Media Space: A Media Ecology of a Twitter-Convened Baraza

Audrey Gadzekpo

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): School of Communication Studies, University of Ghana

Proposal Title: A Critical Assessment of Media Relations, Functionality and Impact in Interventions by Civil Society Organisations Working in Peacebuilding: Case Studies from Ghana and Sierra Leone

Bizusew Ashagrie

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Intergovernmental Authority on Development

Proposal Title: Influence of Environmental Pressure on Inter-Communal Relations: Environmental Scarcity and Conflict in Cross-Border Pastoral Areas of the Lower Omo Valley

Gbemisola Animasawun

Competition: Residential Postdoctoral Fellowships 2014

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

Proposal Title: Autochthony, Horizontal Inequalities, and Ethnic Insecurity: Implications for Peaceful Co-existence and Inter-Ethnic Crisis in Select Markets in Lagos, Nigeria

Felicia Odame

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Social political and Historical Studies, University for Development Studies

Proposal Title: Non-Formal Education and Social Change in the Nadowli District of Ghana: Reality or Mirage?

Mike Mavura

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political & International Studies, Rhodes University

Proposal Title: Transnationalism and Re-thinking international Relations in Southern Africa: The Case of Short-term Cross-Border Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa

Herbert Ainamani

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION AND PSYCHOLOGY, Mbarara University of Science & Technology

Proposal Title: Traumatic experiences, Working memory functions, and aggressive behaviour among the Congolese Refugees in Uganda