Embedded Files
This page features existing peer-reviewed publications. See the blog for a selection of online posts and articles, and below for my orcid ID.
This page features existing peer-reviewed publications. See the blog for a selection of online posts and articles, and below for my orcid ID.
Navigating Post-genocide social relations: Memory, power and legacy in Rwanda
This co-edited (with Dr. Nicole Fox) special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research contains our introductory article, a co-authored research article with Dr. Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, "Erased Refugees: Displaced Memories of Camps as Killing Fields in the First Congo War," and a co-authored fieldwork-based article, "Lessons from the field: Experts weigh in on years of conducting fieldwork in post-atrocity zones."
Postgenocide and decolonizing approaches to peace education in the Anthropocene
This article addresses the intersection of genocide studies, climate change, and peace education. It does so by examining the state of these connections, and proposes a fresh concept for considering the entanglements of contemporary violence in the Anthropocene. Peace educators can leverage global concepts like postgenocide to cut through and examine the complexity of such entanglements.
Researching mass violence and genocide in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is academically, politically, and socially fraught. I examine the innovation and limitations of seeing subjectivity in Congo-based genocide research, notwithstanding or perhaps because of the highly fraught nature of this term and its uses.
Teaching Peace amidst Conflict and Postcolonialism
Drawing on case studies from Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burundi, Colombia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay, this book shows that cultural and structural violence can, in turn, lead to direct violence. An effective program of peace education responds to these dynamics meeting our urgent problems and opening up new opportunities for peacebuilding. See flyer here.
"I need to protect everyone": Exploring Banyamulenge Violent Masculinity
This article examines violent masculinity and locates this performative identity within ethnic conflict and African masculinity literature. Analysis focuses on the development of Congolese Banyamulenge soldiers’ masculine narratives and moral justifications of violence. Using narrative analysis, this article engages the above literature and original fieldwork interviews with Banyamulenge soldiers and political actors. Violent masculinity evolved as a Banyamulenge practice, whilst being embedded in traditional structures.
Postgenocide (2021)
Edited by Klejda Mulaj, this volume "investigates the effects of genocide on law and society after mass killing has ended, using an innovative 'postgenocide' approach". My concluding chapter, "Further agendas for postgenocide research" addresses the role of genocide in assessing climate violence and identity in contemporary conflict.
Review_Writing that breaks stones.pdfBook Review: Uraizee, 'Writing that Breaks Stones: African Child Soldier Narratives (2021)
This book’s theoretical framing of African child soldiers shows an environment of violence that creates multiple ambiguities in agency and identity categories. Such a situation impacts the belonging and positioning of surviving soldiers by themselves and their societies. The overarching argument of the book is that narratives are produced and are productive in that they offer the speaker a place to uniquely convey themselves.
Davey_A Soldier's Journey.pdfA Soldier's Journey: Banyamulenge Narratives of Genocide (2020)
This article adds to debates in genocide studies on identity by analyzing Congolese Tutsi, or Banyamulenge, soldier narratives. It discusses this group’s identities and agency through the lens of the militarized generation of the 1990s. Actors in genocide are agentic and engaged in the formation of fluid identity.
IRIA-Report-Peace-and-Conflict-Analysis-1.pdfConnecting War and Genocide (2015)
Whilst war can occur without genocide, genocide rarely occurs without war, yet, this is not a strictly cause and effect relationship. This explorative article addresses social and legal approaches to genocide, some historic intersections of war and genocide, the problematic nature of intent and ideology, humanitarian warfare aimed at preventing genocide, and historic and contemporary issues of resources and climate in war and genocide.
DAVEY_Mass Violence as Post-Genocide_Peace conflict and development 2016.pdfMass Violence as Post-Genocide and the Limits/Potential of Responsibility to Protect (2016)
Is the concept of Responsibility to Protect fit for purpose in a world where conflict dynamics are fluid and evolving, and global crises, such as climate change, present emerging dangers and anthropological impact? This paper uses Mark Levene’s global systems analysis of “post-genocide” to describe violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo thereby discussing and identifying the limitations of R2P as it is currently conceptualized.
Global_Perspectives_on_the_Holocaust_History,_Iden..._----_(Pg_401--421).pdfFighting Atrocity (2015)
Too little attention has been paid to the growing evidence of successful cases of nonviolence and accompanying scholarly analysis, and the potential for peacebuilding in my selected casestudies. This chapter argues that civil resistance should have a greater role in responding to gross violations and influencing humanitarian intervention.
Book Review_ Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America.pdfBook Review: Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (2016)
This tightly packed anthology notonly reviews the contemporary issues of and positions on colonial genocide in North America,but stands as a wedge of discourse around the histories and interpretations of group destruction as part of the civilizing project. This review discusses the audience and aims of the publication, summarizes and connects the chapters, and draws some critical outlines of colonial and wider genocide studies as reflected in the contributors’ voices.
(Above photo credit: University of Leeds, UK 2015)
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse