Radha Kumar is the director of the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia University. She is also a trustee of the Delhi Policy Group, where she runs the Peace and Conflict Programme, which aims to stimulate thinking on how to make a lasting peace. Formerly Senior Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1999-2003), Professor Kumar has also been Executive Director of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly in Prague (1992-1994) and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University (1996-1998). She serves on advisory groups for important Indian institutions, such as the India International Centre.