TAKEUCHI Shinichi
Inter-disciplinary Studies Center・Chief Senior Researcher
Research Field:
Political Economy, Area Studies (Africa)
Education / Research Experience
Education: | |
Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Department of French Language, 1986 | |
Ph.D. University of Tokyo, 2008 |
Professional Career: | |
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-March 2014 | |
Deputy Director-General, Area Studies Center, April 2014 | |
Deputy Director-General, Area Studies Center, April 2014-March 2015 | |
Director-General, Area Studies Center, April 2015-March 2017 | |
Director/Professor, African Studies Center – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / | |
Chief Senior Researcher, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, April 2017 |
Other Information: | |
African Studies Center – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
Major Works
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Shinichi Takeuchi ed. Confronting Land and Property Problems for Peace , Oxon: Routledge, 2014, pp.xvii+287.
“Introduction: land and property problems in peacebuilding” (pp.1-28).
“Land tenure security in post-conflict Rwanda” (pp. 86-108). (with Jean Marara)
“Dealing with land problems in post-conflict Burundi” (pp.109-131). (with Sylvestre Ndayirukiye)
“Conclusion: confronting land and property problems for peace” (pp.242-266). (with Mari Katayanagi and Ryutaro Murotani) - “The Evolution of Land Policy in African State Building”, In State Building and Development , eds. Keijiro Otsuka and Takashi Shiraishi, London: Routledge, 2014, pp.95-113.
- “’Twin Countries’ with Contrasting Institutions: Post-Conflict State-Building in Rwanda and Burundi”, In Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa: Inequalities, Perceptions and Institutions , eds. Yoichi Mine, Frances Stewart, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Thandika Mkandawire, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013, pp. 40-65.
- “Gacaca and DDR: The Disputable Record of State-Building in Rwanda” Working Paper No.32, 2011, 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.