Natia Chankvetadze is a peace-building scholar-practitioner and took the helm of the Davis Center’s Program on Georgian Studies at the start of the 2024-2025 academic year. Prior to joining the program, Natia was a visiting fellow at the center under an American Association of University Women fellowship (2023-2024) and a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute’s Black Sea Program (2020-2022). Natia’s areas of research and publication include everyday peace, conflict transformation, trade facilitation, youth engagement, and conflict memories and narratives. Natia 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). Over 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 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. She is completing her Ph.D., with a dissertation on “Protracted Conflict Peace-Building and Critical Theory of Knowledge,” at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
