Christian Davenport
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Christian Davenport is the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding
Academic career
Christian Davenport is best known as a scholar of state repression/human rights violation, genocide, civil war, social movements and protest having written 8 books and approximately 50+ academic articles. While his work mainly concerns global patterns, he has also done research on specific countries as well including the United States (
Some of Davenport's work has provided foundational insights about political conflict and contention. For example, he has shown that there is a "domestic democratic peace" (mirroring the
Controversies
Davenport researched untouchability and caste discrimination with Martin Macwan, an activist from Gujarat who in 2000 received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and Navsarjan Trust, surveying 100 different practices. The government of Gujarat rejected their results, commissioning its own study.[citation needed]
Related, his 2004 estimate about the number of people killed during the
Non-academic work
Davenport co-authored two installations of a comic/graphic novel with Darick Ritter of Sequential Potential called RW-94: Reflections on Rwanda based on his research concerning Rwanda between 2000-2004 when he consulted with the National University of Rwanda in Butare as well as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for first the prosecution and then the defense.[citation needed] In 2020, Davenport started a podcast (adopting the nickname Science) with Professor Derrick Darby (aka Sage) called "A Pod Called Quest". The podcast invites listeners to think with hosts about problems of injustice, just futures, and evidence-based solutions.[6] Another podcast with Professor Jesse Driscoll called "Raiders of the Lost Archive" invites listeners to reconsider those who engage in field and archival work as
Awards
- The Victoire IngabireUmuhoza Prize for Democracy from The International Women’s Network for Democracy and Peace (2020)
- The "Engaged Scholar Award" from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (2016)
- University of Denver, Best Book on Racial Power and Social Movements, American Political Science Association (2011)
- Leader of Tomorrow Award from Ebony Magazine(1995).
Works
- Davenport, Christian; Melander, Erik; Regan, Patrick (2018). The Peace Continuum: What it is and How You Study it. ISBN 978-0-190-68013-8.
- Forsberg, Erika; Birnir, Johanna; Davenport, Christian (2017). Ethnic Politics and Conflict/Violence: State of the Field and New Directions. ISBN 9780367234874.
- Davenport, Christian (2015). How Social Movements Die: Repression and Demobilization of the Republic of New Africa.
- Davenport, Christian (2010). Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party. ISBN 9780521759700.
- Davenport, Christian (2007). State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace.
- Mueller, Carol; Johnston, Hank; Davenport, Christian (2005). Repression and Mobilization. ISBN 9780816644261.
- Davenport, Christian (2000). Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics. ISBN 9780847693917.
References
- ^ "Davenport Appointed Walgreen Professor | U-M LSA Political Science".
- ^ "Christian Davenport | U-M LSA Political Science". www.christian davenport.com. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ Marijke Verpoorten (27 October 2014). "Rwanda: Why claim that 200,000 Tutsi died in the genocide is wrong". African Arguments. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ "Rwanda 1994 killings weren't 'genocide': US study". www.abc.net.au. 3 April 2004. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Study questions 'genocide' in Rwanda: Hutus killed by Tutsis may account for half of victims". National Post. 7 April 2004. p. 10. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
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- ^ "Political Science Quarterly: Winter 2008-09: Review: State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace". www.psqonline.org.
- ^ Young, Joseph K. (April 2008). "View of Christian Davenport. State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace. | Journal of Conflict Studies". Journal of Conflict Studies. 28. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
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