Natia Chankvetadze is a peace-building scholar-practitioner and directs the Davis Center’s Program on Georgian Studies.
Natia’s areas of research and publication include everyday peace, conflict transformation, trade facilitation, youth engagement, and conflict memories and narratives. She co-authored the book Women During and After the War, as well as a handbook on peace and conflict studies in Georgia (both published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Tbilisi Office, 2020). In the past decade, Natia has taught undergraduate and graduate students of various backgrounds in both Georgia and the United States — at Harvard, George Mason University, and Tbilisi State University. She is a Chevening Scholar and a recipient of the 2022 Bertha Von Suttner Peace Prize for her work promoting peace education in her native Georgia.
Natia holds a Ph.D. from George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, where her dissertation focused on “Protracted Conflict Peace-Building and Critical Theory of Knowledge." Prior to earning her degree, she was a visiting fellow with the Program on Georgian Studies under an American Association of University Women fellowship (2023-2024) and, before then, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute’s Black Sea Program (2020-2022). She holds an M.A. in peace and conflict studies from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and a B.A. in international relations from Tbilisi State University in Georgia.
