Director, Program on Peacekeeping Policy
Research Assistant Professor and Senior Fellow
The School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Adjunct Research Staff, The Institute of Defense Analyses

Mr. Davis has been working on the application of Operations Research techniques to Peace Operations since 1992, after his retirement from the US Army's Corps of Engineers. This research has been focused on the application of modeling techniques to the many peace processes at the United Nations and in the US and NATO militaries. He has applied his modeling techniques to the UN, and to the Headquarters of the United Nations Forces in Cyprus, the Liberian Peace Accords, the Security structure of Sierra Leone, Refugee flow analysis and on many topics in the former Yugoslavia. His current research is focused on the development of the Conceptual Model of Peace Operations and its use as a tool for operational use in Complex Humanitarian and Political Emergencies. This tool is currently being used at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations and in the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency. He also chairs the Cornwallis Group: Analysis for and of the Resolution of Conflict, a multinational and multidisciplinary group meeting annually at Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia.

Mr. Davis is the current Director of the Program on Peacekeeping Policy at George Mason University.

He has served as a seminar facilitator for the School for Defense Analysis and the Marshall Center for Crisis Management Seminars in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Moldova and Albania. He has also served as a Lessons Learned facilitator for the Flag Officers Group, AFNORTH Exercise Spirited Flight 2000 and the Kosovo After Action Review of the US Army War College, in February 2001. He as been an Invited lecturer on Conflict Resolution and Intervention design for the Guatemalan School of Peace and Development.

Mr. Davis has been accepted for External Degree (Ph.D.) by Informatiks Faculty of the Bundeswehr University (anticipated completion Spring 2001); and he has completed Ph.D. course work for Information Technology at George Mason University. He earned an M.Sc in Operations Research (Honors) from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1981; an M.Sc in Applied Mathematics from Naval Postgraduate School in 1981; and a B.Sc in Mineral Engineering Mathematics from the Colorado School of Mines in 1972.

He has served as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy (1981 - 1984); and an Adjunct instructor in Computer Science and Mathematics at The State University of New York - New Palz, The New Mexico State University, and Central Texas College.

He is the author of numerous books and articles.