Scholarships and Funding
The Matsunaga Institute actively encourages students to pursue educational assistance.
Learn more about the Matsunaga Institute for Peace.
Available Opportunities
Philip Jacob Peace Memorial Award
This award was established in memory of Professor Philip E. Jacob (1914-1985), who devoted his personal and academic life to the search for peace and intercultural understanding. Dr. Jacob pioneered a new diplomacy of cross-national collaborative research with fellow scientists internationally. Through this achievement, Dr. Jacob is credited for joining minds and resources across barriers of ideology and politics in a common exploration of how to better the human condition.
- Up to $500 is awarded.
- Application deadline: March 31
- Open to current, full-time undergraduate and graduate students in the University of Hawai’i system with a cumulative 2.5 GPA.
- Application requirements include a resume/CV, unofficial transcripts, a one-page essay, and one letter of recommendation.
- View complete application requirements and apply online (UH login required)
Glenn D. Paige Nonkilling Memorial Award
This award was established in memory of Professor Glenn D. Paige (1929-2017), who developed the concept of nonkilling. Dr. Paige taught Political Science at the University of Hawai’i (1967–92), introducing the course on nonviolent political alternatives (1978–92), and developing the Center for Global Nonkilling, which co-sponsors this memorial award.
- Up to $350 is awarded
- Application deadline: March 31
- Open to current, full-time graduate students in the University of Hawai’i system.
- Application requirements include a resume/CV, unofficial transcripts, and a one-page essay.
- View complete application requirements and apply online (UH login required)
Nobumoto Tanahashi Fellowship/Scholarship Fund
This award was established in memory of Reverend Nobumoto Tanahashi (1906-1996), founder of the Heiwa Kyokai (Order of Peace Congregation), a Shintoism school committed to peace. The Reverend Tanahashi was an independent Japanese businessman who made the cause of world peace his personal mission.
This fund aims to assist full-time undergraduate or graduate students majoring in peace studies or conflict resolution at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, College of Social Sciences.
- Application deadlines are listed on UH Mānoa STAR.
Additional Scholarships on UH Mānoa STAR
- Ann Dunham Soetoro Scholarship – The purpose of this fund is to provide fellowships in cooperation and coordination between the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and the East-West Center to support students from the U.S. or Indonesia focusing on (1) anthropology or other social sciences; (2) development studies with particular reference to Indonesia and Southeast Asia; and (3) women’s studies addressing the role of women in social and economic change.
- Daniel Selvarajah Sanders Doctoral Award in International Social Work – The purpose of this fund is to assist students in the School of Social Work at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa whose area of focus is congruent with the professional interests of Dr. Daniel S. Sanders: international social work, world peace, human rights, social justice, and the study of a social welfare or social work issue from a global perspective.
- Gladys Ainoa Brandt Scholarship Fund in the Center for Hawaiian Studies – The purpose of this fund is to provide scholarships to support students seeking a degree in the area of Hawaiian studies at the Hawaiinuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
- Goto of Hiroshima Foundation “Fumiko Kaya” Scholarship – The purpose of this fund is to provide scholarships to assist students in the American Studies Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Arts & Humanities who are pursuing interdisciplinary studies to foster volunteer activities and research which will contribute to world peace and to the promotion of the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of Hawaiʻi and Japan.
- James K. Hoenig Endowed Judicial Clerkship Scholarship for the Promotion of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Family Law – The purpose of this fund is to support second- or third-year students pursuing a degree at the William S. Richardson School of Law (WSRSL) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, who are interested in the promotion of alternative dispute resolution in Family Law.
- Leonard and Rebecca Kamp Endowed Scholarship Funds – The purpose of this Fund is to provide scholarships to students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Shidler College of Business. Preference shall be given to either a Peace Corps volunteer who has completed their service, a former or current University of Hawaiʻi student athlete, or a single parent with financial need.
- McComas-Kobayashi Fellowship Endowment for Public Health – The purpose of this Fund is to support students pursuing studies in Public Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Funds shall be used for costs associated with attendance (e.g. tuition, books, fees, etc.), in addition to provide funding for materials, research, travel and other such expenses.
- PPSEAWA-Hawaii Miriam Deisseroth Scholarship – The purpose of this fund is to provide scholarships to lower division undergraduate students (freshman and sophomore standing with preference to freshman) who express and/or demonstrate an interest in Pacific Islands or Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
- PPSEAWA Hawaii Scholarship – The purpose of this fund is to provide scholarships to lower division undergraduate students (freshman and sophomore standing with preference to freshman) who express and/or demonstrate an interest in Pacific Islands or Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
- Yoshimitsu Takei Family Scholarship Fund – The purpose of this fund is to provide scholarships to students of modest financial circumstances to study at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education.