Gay Rosenblum-Kumar

Gay Rosenblum-Kumar (born December 7, 1955) is an American administrator who is the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Interagency Framework Team on Preventive Action. She works with UN staff, government officials, and civil society counterparts to enhance their capacities for managing conflict.

Gay Rosenblum-Kumar completed a B.A degree at the State University of New York in 1977, and an M.A. at the School for International Training in Vermont in 1998. She worked for the African-American Institute in New York, before joining the UN in 1989.

Gay Rosenblum-Kumar currently heads the Secretariat of the Interagency UN Framework for Preventive Action (FT), an informal mechanism assisting UN 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 UN Conflict Prevention Community of Practice to support conflict transformation and peacebuilding practitioners within the UN 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 NGOs on anti-apartheid and development issues.

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