Education
Gay Rosenblum-Kumar completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the State University of New York in 1977, and an Master of Arts
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Gay Rosenblum-Kumar
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Career
She works with United Nations staff, government officials, and civil society counterparts to enhance their capacities for managing conflict. at the School for International Training in Vermont in 1998. She worked for the African-American Institute in New York, before joining the United Nations in 1989. Gay Rosenblum-Kumar currently heads the Secretariat of the Interagency United Nations Framework for Preventive Action (FT), an informal mechanism assisting United Nations agencies, departments and Country Teams to work with national stakeholders in building local capacities to prevent and mitigate destructive conflict.
Such initiatives often include activities to: enhance conflict analysis and response capacity, train facilitators and mediators.
Strengthen institutions for dialogue and consensus-building. Support electoral violence prevention campaigns, and promote conflict-sensitive policy and practice.
The FT facilitates the United Nations Conflict Prevention Community of Practice to support conflict transformation and peacebuilding practitioners within the United Nations and develops thematic knowledge products and guidance materials to enhance sustainable conflict transformation programmes around the world. Currently, the FT is leading two interagency initiatives to deepen understanding and practice on natural resources and conflict prevention and to catalyze system-wide strengthening of conflict-sensitive practice, programming and policy.
Prior to joining the United Nations, she worked with several international Non-governmental organizations on anti-apartheid and development issues.
