“African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)

	Faculty of Sociology, Otani University
Research Fields	I have conducted my research on the transitions of regimes and social integration in post-Apartheid South Africa. In recent years, I have expanded my interests to the social movement of the Colored people, particularly those who claim their identity as an indigenous group.
Main Works	Abe, Toshihiro and Obvious Katsaura, 2016, Social Cohesion against Xenophobic Tension: A Case Study of Yeoville, Johannesburg, African Study Monographs, 37(2), 55-73 Abe, Toshihiro, 2016, Creating Space for Productive Deviance: The Latent Function of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, in Sam Moyo and Yoichi Mine eds., What Colonialism Ignored: ‘African Potentials’ for Resolving Conflicts in Southern Africa, Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 173-202. Abe, Toshihiro, 2014, Transitional Justice Destined to be Criticised as Failure: Understanding its Uniqueness from African Cases, in Ohta, I. et al. eds. Conflict Resolution and Coexistence: Realizing African Potentials (African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 50), 3-23. Abe, Toshihiro, 2012, Reconciliation as Process or Catalyst: Understanding the Concept in a Post-conflict Society, Comparative Sociology vol.11, 785-814

Toshihiro Abe