POPP Faculty / Staff

Peace Operations Policy Program

George Mason University

Peace Operations Policy Program

Staff

David F. Davis, Director, retired from 20 years of service with the US Army’s 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.

Allison Frendak-Blume, Academic Director, came to George Mason University as a doctoral student after working in Bosnia with Save the Children/US, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Conflict Resolution Catalysts/Danas za Bolja Sutra (1997-98). She started with POPP as a part-time research assistant in June 1999 and supported “Synthetic Environments for National Security Estimates” (S.E.N.S.E.) simulations with the program and later the Institute for Defense Analyses (1999-2002). Frendak-Blume began full-time work as a research associate in February 2001 and among other projects developed the fifth version of CMPO; performed task analyses related to peacekeeping, conflict prevention, and peacekeeper extraction missions for the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency; provided functional decomposition subject matter expertise to the US Pacific Command for development of its “Peace Operations Support Tool”; and researched and composed archetypes of civilian organizations involved in post-conflict Afghanistan and Iraq for a joint US-Swedish “Strategic Management System.” She served as acting director while Dave Davis was in Iraq (2004) and became the program’s academic director upon his return. Frendak-Blume consults with the Professional Training Program at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2004- ), taking her to Jordan, Iraq, and Poland. She has taught Experiential Applications in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments, Theory of Peace Operations (Peace Operations I), Practice of Peace Operations (Peace Operations II), and Governance and Policy Processes. Frendak-Blume holds a Ph.D. Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, an M.A. Social Sciences from Montclair State University, and a B.A. History (Russian Area Studies) from Seton Hall University.

Ambassador (Ret.) Robert W. "Bill" Farrand, Affiliate Faculty and Senior Advisor, came to POPP after serving three years as the first Supervisor and Deputy High Representative for Brcko (1997-2000). A retired Foreign Service officer, Farrand led a distinguished career focusing on Soviet and Asian issues. He had been appointed Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu (1990-93); principal deputy assistant secretary of state, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1987-90); deputy director, Office of Foreign Service Career Counseling and Assignments (Personnel) (1985-87); deputy chief of mission, US Embassy Prague, Czechoslovakia (1983-85); deputy director, Office of Eastern European and Yugoslav Affairs (1981-82); officer-in-charge of bilateral affairs, Office of Soviet Affairs (1978-80); director, US Commercial Office Moscow, USSR (1976-78); chief of economic/commercial section, US Embassy Prague, Czechoslovakia (1973-76); commodities officer, Bureau of Economics and Business Affairs (1970-73); chief of consular section, US Embassy Moscow, USSR (1968-1970); and junior officer, US Embassy Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1965-67). Farrand served as an officer in the US Navy (1957-64). He also spent time teaching, serving as deputy commandant for international affairs at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort McNair, Washington, DC (1993-95) and economics instructor at the US Naval Academy (1961-64). Farrand hosts the “Peace and Stability Operations Colloquium Series” for POPP and is completing a manuscript about his experience in Bosnia. He holds an M.A. Economics from Georgetown University and B.S. Economics and Business Administration Mount Saint Mary’s College. He is a graduate of the National War College.

Dana Eyre, Adjunct Faculty, became associated with POPP in the summer of 2005 after finishing work with the Office of Iraq Reconstruction in US Agency for International Assistance (USAID)-Washington and becoming a senior fellow with USIP’s Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program. Eyre served as senior advisor in USAID’s Iraq mission (2003-05) coordinating efforts with the Coalition Provisional Authority, focusing primarily on democracy and governance issues. He supervised initial implementation of a $43 million “Civil Society and Independent Media Development Initiative” and worked with Multi-National Force-Iraq to create a new senior staff office focused on strategic civil-military, political, and economic issues. Eyre served as senior policy advisor to the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in the UN Mission in Kosovo (2001-03) and deputy head of the Economic Policy Office (2000-01). He was the plans officer for the Joint Civil-Military Task Force, with Stabilization Force in Bosnia (1997-98). Eyre was a faculty member of the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre (1996-2002) and lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the US Naval Postgraduate School (1992-2000). He has taught Military Operations, Non-Combat and Development and Peace Operations at POPP. Eyre holds a Ph.D. and M.A. Sociology from Stanford University, M.Sc. Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management from Chapman University, and a B.A. Liberal Studies from San Jose State University.

William Stuebner, Affiliate Faculty, joined POPP in the summer of 2005. He previously had served as the first executive director of the Alliance for International Conflict and Prevention (2003-05) and executive director of the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (2001-03). Stuebner has been involved with Balkans affairs for over a decade, serving as a consultant on humanitarian assistance for the Department of Defense, Office of Global Affairs (1992); field representative for the US Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (1992-94); advisor to the prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1994-96); chief of staff/senior deputy head of mission for human rights with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (1996); liaison officer-chief of exhumations, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1996-97); and advisor on reconciliation in Bosnia for USIP (1997-2000). He currently works with the Grand Mufti of Bosnia to create a Bosnian counterpart to USIP, assists the Bosnian government in the establishment of a truth commission, and has been organizing a joint Bosnian-American human rights monitoring project for Darfur, Sudan. Stuebner served in the US Army for 20 years (1972-92); and holds an M.A. Government from Georgetown University and a B.A. Government from Ohio University.

Cathryn Thurston, Adjunct Faculty, started to teach for POPP in the fall 2005. She is an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation’s DC office (2002- ) and works on projects for the intelligence community and US Army, most recently helping the latter to assess the effectiveness of information operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Thurston previously served as an intelligence analyst and expert on West European and NATO trends at the Army Staff, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (1997-2000); and was a presidential management intern at the US Mission to NATO Headquarters; Office of the Secretary of Defense, Program Analysis and Evaluation; and RAND Corporation, National Defense Research Institute (1995-97). She teaches Analysis for Peace Operations in the fall and spring semesters for POPP. Thurston holds a Ph.D. Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, M.A. International Relations from Syracuse University, and B.A. International Studies from the University of Denver.

Ivan L. King, Adjunct Faculty, worked full-time at POPP as a visiting professor (1998-2002) through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He was employed at NSF since 1992 in the Directorates for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; Education and Human Resources; and in the Office of the Director. Prior to this King served 28 years as an officer in the US Army and US Army Reserve. He is retired but engaged as principal of King’s Counseling and Mediation Services; adjunct faculty at another local university; and board member of the Excel Institute, a private Washington, DC-based post-secondary engineering school, all on a part-time basis. King has taught Theory of Peace Operations (Peace Operations I), Practice of Peace Operations (Peace Operations II), and Religious Considerations of Peace Operations for POPP. He holds a Ph.D. Conflict Resolution and Peace from The Union Institute and University, M.A. Management from Central Michigan University and B.A. Economics from Stony Brook University.

Major-General (Ret.) Indar Jit Rikhye, Senior Advisor, was born in Lahore and served in the Indian Army (1940-67). In 1957 he was assigned to command India’s troops in the Sinai and Gaza as part of a UN peacekeeping force. Rikhye became the United Nations Emergency Force’s chief of staff in 1958 and later its acting force commander. Two years later he was appointed military advisor to the UN Secretary-Generals, Dag Hammarskjold and U Thant. After his retirement from military service, Rikhye founded the International Peace Academy with Ruth Young, and served as its president (1971-90). He has directed programs in conflict resolution in various institutions throughout the world, written several books on peacekeeping, and was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in 1985. Rikhye has been associated with POPP as a senior advisor since 1999, and is also an honorary senior fellow at the Institute of Global Policy Research and Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia.

Ambassador (Ret.) Edward Marks, Senior Advisor, spent most of his professional life as a career diplomat, including service as deputy US representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and Ambassador to the Republics of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (1977-80). Since 1995 he has been a consultant for a number of organizations—the Center for Strategic and International Studies, National Defense University, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cubic International, Center of Excellence in Emergency Management of Honolulu, and the UN Development Fund. Marks recently finished a five-year long assignment at the Joint Interagency Coordinating Group on Counterterrorism, US Pacific Command. He is the author of several works on peacekeeping and the UN, as well as articles on terrorism, the professional US military officer, and crisis management exercises. Marks has taught at New York University, and has been associated with POPP as a senior advisor since 1999. He holds an M.A. from the University of Oklahoma and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Dean S. Hartley III, Affiliate Faculty, is the Principal of Hartley Consulting. Previously he was a Senior Member of the Research Staff at the Department of Energy Oak Ridge Facilities (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Y12 Site and East Tennessee Technology Park). He received his Ph.D. in piecewise linear topology from the University of Georgia in 1973. Hartley is a past Vice President of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), a past Director of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), past President of the Military Applications Society (MAS), and a member of the College on Simulation of INFORMS. He also serves as the Technical Advisor for Operations Research and Modeling to the International Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project (IPAP). Hartley is a Senior Fellow with the George Mason University School of Public Policy and a consulting resource for the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Modeling, Virtual Environments & Simulation (MOVES) Institute. His interests include modeling of combat, operations other than war (OOTW), stability and support operations (SASO), and stability, security, transition and reconstruction (SSTR) operations, verification and validation of models, psychopharmacology modeling, and simulation. His website is http://dshartley3.home.comcast.net.