Director of Operations Institute For War & Peace Reporting Alan Davis Related 16/10/2003 Conference: Securing Peace: NATO’s Role in Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution Alan joined IWPR in 1994 after training as a journalist and reporting extensively from Indochina and East Asia. A finalist in the UK Press Gazette Regional Journalist of the Year, he reported from inside Vukovar, just before it fell to Yugoslav Federal and paramilitary forces in 1991. He has designed and implemented IWPR programmes in the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Afghanistan and leads IWPR's media consultancy work for the UK Department For International Development.