Background
Christopher P. Davey’s interdisciplinary research and teaching cover a range of topics under the themes of genocide studies, human rights, peacebuilding, peace education, climate change and conflict, and the African Great Lakes region.
Davey’s work has been published by the Journal of Genocide Research, Journal of Peace Education, Journal of Perpetrator Research, Journal of African Military History and Journal of Interpersonal Violence. His book, Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide Between Congo and Rwanda, explores Congolese Tutsi combatant identities and perceptions of genocide. He directs the Gatumba Survivors Project, documenting Congolese refugee stories of flight and belonging.
Davey serves as lead researcher with Education for Global Peace (EGP). In collaboration with EGP, he has co-edited a book, Teaching Peace amidst Conflict and Postcolonialism, examining policy, practice and actors in peace education across different countries.
He is a Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar and affiliated faculty with Human Rights Institute, and was previously a visiting assistant professor at the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention and at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He has extensive project management experience in diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as in organizational development.
Mentoring Philosophy
Davey’s critical discourse pedagogy guides his mentoring approach. He engages in various co-authored and student-led projects, supporting student research design and community engagement. This work includes the Gatumba Survivors Project, the Microdynamics of Mass Atrocity working paper series and a dialogue guidebook for the Binghamton campus community. He regularly seeks opportunities to combine teaching with student development and growth.
Select Publications
- The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide Between Congo and Rwanda, Michigan University Press, 2025
- “Centering Survivor Voices and Decentering Myself: Teaching Rwanda through an Antiracist Praxis,” in Towards a Ƶ of Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education: Transformative Principles, Practices, and Resources for the Classroom. Eds. Jie Park and Laurie Ross, Routledge, 2026
- “Erasing Refugees: Displaced Memories of Camps as Killing Fields in the First Congo War,” with Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, Journal of Genocide Research 27, no. 2 (2025)
- “Postgenocide and decolonizing approaches to peace education in the Anthropocene,” Journal of Peace Education 22, no. 1 (2024)
- “Investigating Multidirectional Violence in Eastern Congo: Owning ‘Genocide’ and Pre-judicial Atrocity,” Journal of Perpetrator Research 6, no. 2 (2024)
Education
- PhD, University of Bradford
- MA, Kingston University
- BA, Utah Valley University
Research Interests
- African Great Lakes region
- Genocide and mass atrocity
- Local-level peacebuilding
- Communal self-defence
- Peace education
Teaching Interests
- Genocide Studies and prevention
- Peacebuilding
- African politics
- Climate change and conflict
- Quantitative methods
Awards
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Fellow
- Civic Dialogue Faculty Fellow
- Ƶ Engaged Teaching Fellow
- Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention