Christian Davenport is the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding [1] and political scientist at the University of Michigan.
[citation needed] 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.
At the same time, he has shown that the democratic peace is vulnerable to reduction and incapacity when political authorities are being challenged behaviorally with protest, terrorism, revolution and insurgency.
[citation needed] 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.
This work was featured in a 2014 BBC documentary incorrectly stating that only 200,000 Tutsi died in the genocide—in contrast to scholarly research suggesting a death toll of at least 500,000 victims.