Takashi Araki

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo

Proposal Title: A Comparative Legal Study of Non-Standard Employment Policies in the US, Germany and Japan: The Regulatory Approach, Market Function Approach and Options for Japan

Allison Alexy

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Proposal Title: When Citizenship and Kinship Intersect: Comparing Japanese and American Responses to Transnational Child Custody Disputes

Hideki Yoshimura

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, Economic News, Sankei Shimbun

Proposal Title: Future Cooperation in Energy Policy between Japan and the U.S.

Eliza Strickland

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Editor, IEEE Spectrum

Proposal Title: Power Puzzle: Energy Policy in Post-Fukushima Japan

Laura King

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Kabul bureau chief, Foreign Desk, Los Angeles Times

Proposal Title: Japan in Afghanistan: Can Its Aid and Development Strategy Succeed Where Others Have Failed?

Eve Bower

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Freelance Journalist, CNN

Proposal Title: Rare Earth Supply Security in a Post-Blockade World: How Environmental Concerns May Shape Future Developments

Kjell Ericson

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): East Asian Studies

Proposal Title: Mikimotoed: Pearl Capitalism and the Limits of Nature

Taeju Kim

Proposal Title: Security State, Moral Realism and Post-Conflict Resolution: The Politics of Memory and Apologies in Japan

Mathew Senga

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, University of Dar es Salaam

Proposal Title: Social Networks and Collaboration in Management of Natural Resource and Protection of Livelihoods: Reflections from Rural Communities in East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

David Olema

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Psychology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Proposal Title: Organised Violence and Mental Health of Families Living in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Northern Uganda

Fabius Okumu

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Law, Gulu University

Proposal Title: Access to Justice in Northern Uganda: Restorative and Retributive Justice Discourse in International Law

Eric Ochen

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University

Proposal Title: Life Beyond the Bush: Examining the Challenges and Opportunities for Reintegration of Formerly Abducted Child Mothers in Northern Uganda

Kathleen McDougall

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Stellenbosch University

Proposal Title: Familiar Present, Familial History: Change, Afrikaner Culture Politics and the Threat of History Repeating

Igeme Katagwa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: From the Bush to Community: Framework for the Reintegration of Former Child Rebel Combatants (FCRCs) in Northern Uganda

Cleophas Karooma

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Conflict and Peace Studies, Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Proposal Title: Rwandan Refugees in Southwestern Uganda: Their Attitudes and Responses to Repatriation 1994-2011

Michael Ayamga

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development Economics, University of Ghana

Proposal Title: Land Tenure, Farm Investment and Technical Efficiency in Ghana

Stephen Akoth

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Human Rights Modernities: Practices of the Luo Council of Elders in Contemporary Western Kenya

Benjamin Ajal

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development Studies, Islamic University in Uganda

Proposal Title: Local Community Participation in Forest Conservation in the Mount Elgon National Park

Natalie Zahringer

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): International Relations, University of Witswatersrand

Proposal Title: An Investigation into the Institutionalization of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Norm

Natasha Shivji

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: From Merchant Capital to Finance Capital: The Hawala system in Somalia from 1991-2001 from a Historical and Comparative Perspective

Lukmon Oderinde

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Economics, University of Ibadan

Proposal Title: Taxation and the Economics of Oil Investment Projects in Nigeria

Edwin Ngowi

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development Studies, University of Dodoma

Proposal Title: The Interface between Information and Communication Technologies and Sustainable Agro-Livestock Livelihoods: A Study of Selected Rural Areas of Tanzania

Rosemary Wamuchii Kimani

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Communication, Central University College

Proposal Title: Communicating for Sustainable Behaviour Change: A Process Evaluation of the Anti-FGM Interventions in Tharaka District of Eastern Kenya

Isaac Addo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Population and Health, University of Cape Coast

Proposal Title: Finding Durable Solutions to Refugee Problems in Buduburam Camp of Ghana: Refugees, Ghana Refugee Board, and UNHCR's Perspectives

Usar Iornumbe

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Health Economics, University of Jos

Proposal Title: An Economic Analysis of Retail Pharmaceutical Market in Nigeria: Towards Access Expansion and Policy