Radha Kumar
Radha Kumar is an Indian policy analyst, feminist and author. Her work focuses on issues of peace and security.
Life and Career
Writer and analyst Radha Kumar is an expert on ethnic conflicts and peace processes, known for her work on Afghanistan, India-Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir and the former Yugoslavia. One of the founders of the Indian women's movement of the 1970s-80s, Kumar has also written extensively on women's rights. She is the daughter of the historian Dharma Kumar and the administrator Lovraj Kumar.[1]
Radha Kumar is currently Director-General of the Delhi Policy Group, an independent Indian think-tank. [2]She was previously Director of the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the [Jamia Millia Islamia] University in Delhi, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and an Associate Fellow at Columbia University. She has a Phd from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi and a BA and MA from Cambridge University UK, and has received the Rockefeller Foundation's Warren Weaver fellowship and the SSRC-MacArthur post-doctoral fellowship. She is on the Board of the Foundation for Communal Harmony of the Ministry of Home Affairs, member of the Governing Council of the India Habitat Centre, and in 2014 completed a 6-year term on the Board of the UN Institute for Training and Research.
Kashmir interlocutor panel
In October 2010, Kumar was appointed as one of the three interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir appointed by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) of the Central Government of India.[3][4] The panel was headed by Dilip Padgaonkar, former editor of the Times of India. and the other member was M.M. Ansari, a former Election Commissioner of India.
Published works
- Divide and Fall?: Bosnia in the Annals of Partition
- Negotiating Peace in Deeply Divided Societies: A Set of Simulations
- Making Peace with Partition
- A History of Doing: Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1900-1990
- Bosnia-Herzegovina: Between War and Peace(Co editor)
- Frameworks For A Kashmir Settlement
References
- ↑ http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101221/jsp/opinion/story_13305117.jsp
- ↑ "Professor Radha Kumar". Delhi Policy Group.
- ↑ "Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar & Ansari to be interlocutors". The Economic Times. Oct 14, 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ↑ "Radha Kumar to stay J&K interlocutor". The Times of India. Aug 10, 2011.
External links
- Radha Kumar articles Foreign Affairs