Fieldwork & International Conferences

This project dispatches researchers in various places in Africa for field researches.

Fieldwork & International Conferences

FY2013
Natsuki Katayama (University of Tokyo)
"Reconciliation after Rwandan mass violence (Rwanda)"
Motoki Takahashi (Kobe University)
"Why Social Cohesion in Kenya?: Overview of the Session ‘Social Cohesion in Kenya: Changes in the State, Markets, and Communication’" (43rd Annual Conference of Canadian Association of African Studies: "Africa Communicating: Digital Technologies, Representation, Power")
(Canada: May)
Kazuyo Habuchi
"Mobile Phone in Turkana, Kenya: Deepening Individualization or Reformulating Complexity of Human Relations?"(43rd Annual Conference of Canadian Association of African Studies: "Africa Communicating: Digital Technologies, Representation, Power"
(Canada: April-May)
FY2012
Fukui Miho (Ochanomizu University)
"Research on Gender-based Violence (GBV) in the Post-conflict Phase: Integrating Human Security in its Response"
(SierraLeone Liberia)
Hisada Shinichiro (Kyoto University)
"Applying P3DM for Clarification of Multifactor Relationship of Land Disputes: A Case Study of Highland Agrarian Ali in Southwestern Ethiopia"
(Ethiopia)
Ideue Kazuyo (Kobe University)
"A Study of Capital Market and Corporate Finance in Africa: An Analysis of the Capital Accumulation Process of Sugar Industry and the Capital Transfer in Mauritian Industrialization"
(Mauritius)
Itaru Ohta (Kyoto University)
"Raiding Cattle and Relationships among Ethnic Groups in Pastoral Society of East Africa"
(Kenya: February)
Toru Sagawa (Kyoto University)
"Toward the Comparative Studies of Conflicts in African Pastoralist Society"
(Senegal, Germany: February)
Toshihiro Abe (Otani University)
"Social Integration in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
(South Africa: February)
Shuhei Shimasa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Groups of People from Same Village Mediating Local Conflicts: a case of Ebira Society"
(Nigeria: January-February)
Shuichi Oyama (Kyoto University)
"Land Acquisition and Role of Local Chiefs in Custom Land of Zambia"
(Zambia: October)
Motoki Takahashi (Kyoto University)
"Study on Background and Influence of Conflicts in Kenyan Rural Society"
(Kenya: September)
Motoji Matsuda (Kyoto University)
"Study on Re-creation of Community Policing in Kenyan Society of 21st Century"
(Kenya: August-September)
Yoishi Mine (Doshisha University)
“Historical Origin of Developmentalism: Comparison of African and Asian Experience” (16th Annual Conference of International Economic History Association)
(South Africa: July)
Yoshimasa Ito (Kyoto University)
"Conceivable changes triggered by the forest conservation projects on Coffea arabica growing forest area of the southwestern Ethiopia" (13th Congress of International Ethnobiology)
(France: May)
FY2011
Motoki Takahashi (Kobe University)
“Research on Conflicts and Property Rights in Urban and Rural Area of Kenya”
(Kenya: August)
Toru Sagawa (Kyoto University)
“Influence of Peace-Making Interventions on Local Societies: The Case of East African Pastoral Societies”
(Ethiopia: August-September)
Itaru Ohta (Kyoto University)
“Livestock Rustling and Inter-Ethnic Conflicts among East African Pastoral Societies”
(Kenya: August-September)
Sota Harako (Kyoto University)
"Meeting and Parting of Settlements and the Sharing the Forest Resource in Shifting Cultivation: A Case Study of Mountain Village in Southeastern Tanzania."
(Tanzania: August-September)
Hidyeuki Okano (Osaka University)
"How Armed Conflicts expand to neighbors: Alliances of Armed Factions beyond Border between Liberia and Sierra Leone"
(Sierra Leone: September-October)
Shuichi Oyama (Kyoto University)
“Research on Urban Kitchen Garbage Utilized for Greening Activities and Resolution of Farmer-Pastoralist Conflicts in Sahel”
(Niger: October-November)
Toru Sagawa (Kyoto University)
“Inter-ethnic Relations and Security Situation in Northern Kenya”
(Kenya: November-December)
Itaru Ohta (Kyoto University)
“Livestock Rustling and Inter-Ethnic Conflicts among East African Pastoral Societies”
(Kenya: February-March)
Tetsuya Ohno (Kyoto University / Ritsumeikan University)
"Conflict of Two Forms of Legitimacy: From the Protest movement against Kakamega Forest National Reserve in Kenya"
(Kenya: February-March)
Meyu Yamamoto (Kyoto University)
"Reconstruction of Racial Categories in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
(South Africa: February-March)
Futoshi Kato (Shinshu University)
"Avoidance of Land-use Conflicts and the Development of a Cooperative Relationship between the Agriculturalists and Agropastoralists in a Floodplain: A Case Study of the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania"
(Tanzania: February-March)
Mihoko Nakazawa (Kobe University)
"Living Environment of Orphans and its Impact on Education in Tanzania"
(Tanzania: February-March)
Rumi Umino (Meiji Gakuin University)
“History of the Griqua in South Africa and Their Strategy to Avoid Conflict by Constructing Social Relationships with ‘Others'”
(South Africa: March)