Fellows

Rie Watanabe is a political scientist with expertise in policy process theories, comparative politics, and central (federal) and local climate and energy politics in Germany, EU, Japan, and the United States. Her special interests in research lie in examining the role of actors’ beliefs in climate and energy policy changes in the process towards paradigm shift and in constructing a model of paradigm shifts. As of April 2019, She is working as associate professor in the School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University. She received her Bachelor’s (1992) and Master’s (1994) degrees in Law from the University

Dr. Iddy Ramadhani Magoti holds a Diploma and BA in Education, and an MA and PhD in History. He was employed by the Tanzanian Ministry of Education as a secondary school teacher in 1998 before joining the Department of History at the University of Dar es Salaam as a tutorial assistant in 2007. After receiving his MA in November 2007, he was promoted to assistant lecturer. Since completing his PhD studies in 2017, he has been a lecturer in the Department of History of the University of Dar es Salaam. His research interests include conflict and conflict resolution, peace and

Godfrey Maringira is an associate professor of Anthropology at Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. He graduated with a PhD in sociology at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa in 2015. He is a senior Volkswagen Stiftung Foundation research fellow and is also a Principal Investigator of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) research on Gang violence in South Africa. Dr. Maringira is a two-time consecutive recipient of the SSRC’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Fieldwork and Completion Grant – 2012 and 2013, respectively. He is also a three-time recipient of the African Peacebuilding Network