Speakers

David F. Davis
Director, Peace Operations Policy Program
George Mason University
 

David F. Davis retired from 20 years of service with the US Army Corps of Engineers in October 1992 and moved to Virginia to work at the George Mason Center for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence, part of George Mason University’s School of Information and Technology Engineering. During a formative January 1993 visit with the Canadian contingent of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus, Davis realized complex multinational peace operations were not merely military endeavors—but political ones involving multiple actors. His subsequent research and practice focused on application of operations research analytic modeling techniques to these interventions, particularly the Conceptual Model for Peace Operations (CMPO).

The Program on Peacekeeping Policy was established under the Public Policy umbrella at George Mason University in 1994 and Davis started a master’s degree for peace operations in 1997. He assumed the director’s position in 1999 and changed the name of the program in 2001 to the Peace Operations Policy Program (POPP). Over the years Davis has conducted work or research in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Moldova, and most recently, risk and conflict analysis for the Coalition Provisional Authority and planning for the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office in Baghdad, Iraq (2004). He chaired the Cornwallis Group (1995-2005) and has taught Theory of Peace Operations (Peace Operations I) and Practice of Peace Operations (Peace Operations II).

Davis holds a M.Sc. Operations Research (Honors) and M.Sc. Applied Mathematics from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a B.Sc. Mineral Engineering Mathematics from the Colorado School of Mines.

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