Researchers
TAKEUCHI Shinichi
Director, African Studies Group, Area Studies Center
Research Field:
Political Economy, Area Studies (Africa)
Education / Research Experience
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Education:
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| Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Department of French Language, 1986 | |
| Ph.D. University of Tokyo, 2008 | |
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Professional Career:
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| joined the IDE, 1986 | |
| Director, African Studies Group, Area Research Center, 2005- March 2009 | |
| Seconded to JICA Research Institute, Japan International Cooperation Agency as a Senior Research Fellow, April 2009- March 2012 | |
| Director, African Studies Group, Area Studies Center, April 2012- | |
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Other Information:
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| Field Research in the Congo (Brazzaville) and Gabon, 1992-1994 | |
Major Works
- “Gacaca and DDR: The Disputable Record of State-Building in Rwanda” Working Paper No.32, JICA Research Institute.
- “Capacity Traps and Legitimacy Traps: Development Assistance and State Building in Fragile Situations,” (Co-authored with Ryutaro Murotani and Keiichi Tsunekawa) Homi Kharas, Koji Makino & Woojin Jung eds. Catalyzing Development: A New Vision for Aid, Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, pp.127-154, 2011.
- “Conflict and Land Tenure in Rwanda” JICA-RI Working Paper No.1, September 2009. (Co-author; Jean Marara)
- "Political Liberalization or Armed Conflicts? Political Changes in Post-Cold War Africa," The Developing Economies, 45(2): 172-193, 2007.
- "Regional Differences Regarding Land Tenancy in Rural Rwanda, With Special Reference to Sharecropping in a Coffee Production Area," African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 35, 2007, pp. 111-138. （co-writing with Jean Marara）
- 2006d "Genocide in Rwanda: The Origins and the Perpetrators," Comparative Genocide Studies, Vol.2 (2005/2006), pp.18-31.
- 2006b "'Otherness' and Methods of 'Extermination' in Rwandan Genocide," in Obiya, Chika & Hidemitsu Kuroki eds. Political Violence and Human Security in the Post-9.11 World, Osaka: The Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology, pp.81-99.
- "Returnees in Their Homelands: Land Problems in Rwanda after the Civil War" in Ohta, Itaru and Yntiso D. Gebre eds., Displacement Risks in Africa: Refugees, Resettlers and Their Host Population, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2005, pp.162-191. (Co-writing with Jean Marara)
- "Problématique foncière et rapatriement des réfugiés au Rwanda après 1994," Bulletin de l'Institut Rwandais de Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, No.3, 2004, pp. 115-150. (Co-writing with Jean Marara)
- "Understanding Conflict in Africa: Reflections on Its Recent Characteristics," in Kurimoto, Eisei ed. Rewriting Africa: Toward Renaissance or Collapse, Osaka: The Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology, 2001, pp.27-42.
- "Hutu and Tsuti: A Note on Group Formation in Pre-colonial Rwanda," in Goyvaerts, Didier ed., Conflict and Ethnicity in Central Africa, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2000, pp.177-208.
- "Rationality in Equality: Rural Development and Social Response in Congo (Brazzaville)," in Institute of Developing Economies, African Rural Development Reconsidered, International Workshop Proceedings No.2, 2000, pp.45-68.
- Agriculture and Peasants in Rwanda: A Preliminary Report, (Co-writing with Jean Marara), Joint Research Series No.127, Institute of Developing Economies, 2000.
