Social Science Research Council

The Abe Fellowship Program encourages international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program fosters the development of a new generation of researchers interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.

The Abe Fellowship Program is one of the central components of the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.  Established in 1991 through the efforts of Mr. Shintaro Abe, former Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, CGP's mission is:

To promote these goals, CGP sought a partnership with the SSRC in designing and implementing this flagship program. A central tenet of the SSRC's mission is to bring necessary knowledge to the public - necessary for citizens to understand their societies and necessary for policy makers to decide on crucial questions. The key objectives of the Abe Fellowship Program support these commitments by fostering high-quality research on policy-relevant topics,building new collaborative networks, promoting comparative or transnational lines of inquiry, and ensuring that the results of this research reach a wide group of policy makers and the public at large.  Now in its 18th year, the Abe Fellowship Program includes three core elements, each targeted to achieve CGP's and SSRC's programmatic goals.
 

Abe Fellowship

The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern.  The Program administers an annual fellowship competition that provides scholars and non-academic research professionals in the social sciences and related disciplines with support for research projects addressing one or more of three themes: 1) traditional and non-traditional approaches to security and diplomacy, 2) global and regional economic issues, and 3) the role of civil society.

Abe Fellowship for Journalists (AFJ)

The Abe Fellowship for Journalists is designed to encourage in-depth coverage of topics of pressing concern to the United States and Japan through individual short-term policy-related projects.

CGP-SSRC Policy Forum

The CGP-SSRC Policy Forums will bring together academics, practitioners, policy actors and journalists to work toward the goal of long-term, policy-oriented solutions to issues of global public consequence. Each forum will focus on a single broad theme over a two-year period which will allow for sustained interaction among forum participants as well as a variety of outputs targeted to important moments in the real-world policy debate.

 

Funding for the Abe Fellowship Program is provided by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.