PROGRAM DIRECTORS
Peace & Confict
Professor Radha Kumar
Director, Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution
at Jamia Millia Islamia University
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Dr. Radha Kumar, Director General, of the Delhi Policy Group, is a specialist in ethnic conflicts, peacemaking and peace-building. Formerly Director of the Mandela Centre for Peace at Jamia Millia Islamia University (2005-2010), Dr. Kumar has also been Senior Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1999-2003), Associate Fellow at the Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University (1996-8) and Executive Director of the Helsinki Citizen's Assembly in Prague (1992-4). She is currently on the Board of the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Foundation for Communal Harmony (India, Ministry of Home Affairs), and an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society in New York. She recently completed a mission as one of the Government of India's
Group of Interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir (2011-12).
Dr. Kumar's recent books include Negotiating Peace in Deeply Divided Societies (Sage: 2009), and Making Peace with Partition (Penguin: 2006). Her articles have been published in Foreign Affairs, Economic and Political Weekly, International Affairs, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, and by a number of think tanks, including the EU Institute for Security Studies and the Centre for European Policy Studies. She has authored roughly 30 reports, including several for the Delhi Policy Group
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