【H28年度科研費採択結果発表　4年連続・採択金額私大3位、採択件数私大4位】
　
　昨日、文部科学省から「平成28年度科学研究費補助金の配分」が発表されました。科研費とは、研究の裾野を広く支援することを目的とした競争的資金です。独創的な学術研究や基礎研究などへ配分がされます。
　ノーベル生理学医学賞を受賞された大隈栄誉教授も「私の研究は科研費に支えられてきた」と述べられたように、日本のノーベル賞連続受賞の後押しをしてきたひとつのファクターともいえます。
　本学も約10年前から科研費獲得に向け、さまざまな取り組みをしており今年度は過去最高の527件が採択されています。若手研究者や女性研究者の育成も積極的に行い、新しい発想を持つ研究者が未来の社会に貢献する研究を進めています。

国際関係学部でも、末近浩太先生を代表とする「越境的非国家ネットワーク：国家破綻と紛争」をはじめとして、多くの先生の研究プロジェクトが科学研究費補助金に採択されています。

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Short Report of Open Seminar (10/7/2016):

Moving to a Full-fledge ASEAN Security and Political Community (APSC)

Guest Speaker: Dr. Agus Trihartono, Senior Researcher, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Ritsumeikan University

This seminar attempts to see to what extent the role of ASEAN Way (among others) in influencing the ASEAN Cooperation.It also tries to find out the ASEAN Way compatibility in the current situation and its prospect. In particular, the seminar answers such questions as follows:  How does ASEAN go about achieving that ultimate transformation of the APSC? Do ASEAN previous norms, such as non-interference and sovereignty fit in ASEAN current requirements to a full-fledged political-security community? Is ASEAN Way obsolete? The conclusion is that ASEAN Way may be the strength of ASEAN’s Past, but it seems likely to be the Weakness of ASEAN’s Present.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on October 7, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations and the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Approximately 20 participants attended the seminar.

立命館大学では9月22日、卒業式・学位授与式を開催し、国際関係学部から32名、国際関係研究科から18名が卒業・修了しました。

学位授与式には、修了生・卒業生に加え、多くの家族・友人、教職員が参加し、ともに修了・卒業を祝いました。卒業・修了生は、立命館大学で学んだことを糧に、今後、日本各地・世界各国で新たなキャリアをスタートします。

卒業・修了生の皆様、おめでとうございます。皆さんのご活躍を期待しています！

詳細ニュース：https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=391

9月25日には入学式が実施され、アフリカ、北米、ヨーロッパ、アジア等様々な地域からの留学生を含む、学部32名、研究科39名の入学生を迎えました。

入学生の皆さん　ようこそ立命館へ！

詳細ニュース：https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=394

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Short Report of Open Seminar (6/30/2016):

Dr. Catharine Gegout, Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on June 30, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Approximately 30 participants attended the seminar.

This seminar examined how the security cooperation has been conducted between the EU and China on the issue of Africa’s security. Although there has been pessimism as China and EU possess a different and a diverse perspective on security issues, this seminar argued that, in the context of Africa, China and EU have mutual interests both in economy and security architect. Furthermore, this seminar was also accentuated the most current situation of the so-called Brexit as the one of the EU’s backbone and how this Brexit affected the EU performance in the region.

Short Report of Open Seminar (6/23/2016): 

Speaker: Jung-Ho KIM 

Visiting Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University

Commentator: Ryoji NAKAGAWA, 

Professor, College of International Relations. Ritsumeikan University.

This seminar was to identify what lead to child labor in Cocoa households in Ghana. Applying quantitative methods, the study exposed that Cocoa households in the country have affected the extent of children’s choice between education, labor, and both. This study provided model and policy recommendation to bridge between children’s education and labor in contemporary Cocoa household industry in Ghana. .  

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on June 23, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's College of International Relations and Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Approximately 30 participants attended the seminar.

Short Report of Open Seminar (6/16/2016):

Speaker: Professor T.V. Paul. James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada; and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School International Relations, Ritsumeikan University.

This seminar was to identify the so-called a “Rising Powers” in world politics and how this situation affects to International order. Since IR theory has been notoriously weak in explaining peaceful change or how to achieve it, especially to respond the rising world power, this seminar explored issues such as grand strategies of peaceful change and its constraining factors to manage the emerging power transition. Some case studies of the rising power of China and India were also exposed.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on June 16, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), and Institute of International Relations. Ritsumeikan University. Approximately 60 participants attended the seminar.

Short Report of Open Seminar (6/9/2016):

West Papua Case

Guest Speaker: Nino Viartasiwi, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate school International Relations,

Ritsumeikan University

This seminar is about to critically identify of what conflicts are happening in West Papua and describe how to conduct research in this conflicted area. For the first, the seminar at a glance learn the conflicts beyond separatism that has been following democratization after the fall of Suharto and how the conflicts have been exploited and sustained by the elite predators. For the later, the presenter underlines the challenges and opportunities to do fieldwork and to understand the nature of the conflict in West Papua.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on June 9, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Approximately 20 participants attended the workshop.

Short Report of Open Seminar (6/2/2016):

Guest Speaker: Marie TAKETANI, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate school of Global Studies, Doshisha University.

This seminar is about the conflicts that affected the education in Mali. This seminar is to reexamine the so-called “the problem of the North” by analyzing obstacles and distortions in the system for integration especially education, which new Malian government experienced after independent.  The facts show that the principal problem of the education in the North of the country after the conflict is the evolving gap of the quality of the destruction of education structures and equipment. Furthermore, droughts, lack of accessibility, literacy rate, and education inequality have created the impediments for the post conflict society in the North of the country.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on June 2, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Approximately 25 participants attended the workshop.

Short Report of Special Lecture (6/4/2016):

Guest Speaker: Sachiko ISHIKAWA, Senior Advisor, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

This lecture is to share thoughts of peacebuilding through development, to understand Japan’s policy and practice of peacebuilding assistance (Japan’s ODA), and to examine its application in the case of Mindanao, The Philippines. From this lecture some notes are taken as follows: First, Japan’s ODA practice has gradually been converging with the advocated idea of human security that expanded phases of action, improved integration of different sectors and modalities, and shifted the level of assistance from national to sub-national government and community level. Secondly, Mindanao is an example of the shift as mentioned earlier with the idea of empowering local communities both economically and politically. Finally, the challenge continues for Japan’s ODA, especially JICA’s practice on the ground, to see how to play a catalytic role to promote people-centric development.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on June 4, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), and Institute of International Relations and Area Studies, Ritsumeikan University. Approximately 20 participants attended the lecture.