CV Radha Kumar

Professor Radha Kumar, Director of the Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia Islamia University, and trustee of the Delhi Policy Group, is a specialist on ethnic conflicts and peace processes. Formerly Senior Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1999-2003), Dr. Kumar has also been Executive Director of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly in Prague (1992-4) and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University (1996-8). She is currently on the Board of the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), a member of the Council on Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP India), and on the India International Center’s program advisory group for security.

Dr. Kumar holds a Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi and an MA and BA from Cambridge University, UK.

Her books include:

• Making Peace with Partition (Penguin: 2005)
• Divide and Fall? Bosnia in the Annals of Partition (Verso: 1997)
• A History of Doing: Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1900-1990 (Kali for Women and Verso: 1993)
• Bosnia-Herzegovina: Between War and Peace (Municipalidad Valencia: 1993; co-edited with Josep Palau).

Her articles have been published in:

• Foreign Affairs
• the World Policy Journal
• the Brown Journal of World Affairs
• Feminist Review
• the Indian Economic and Social History Review
• the Economic and Political Weekly
• Seminar

She is a frequent OpEd contributor to "The Indian Express", "DNA", and other Indian newspapers. She had edited or authored roughly 30 reports, of which the most recent are Delhi Policy Group publications, "Frameworks for a Kashmir Settlement" (2007, 2006), "Peace-Building: European and Indian Views" (2007), "Peace Agreements and After" (2006), and "What Makes a Peace Process Irreversible?" (2005).