Binalakshmi Nepram

Binalakshmi Nepram is a published author, Founder-Director of Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network, President of the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace, and Fellow at Harvard University Asia Centre. Bina was with the Carr Centre for Human Rights at Harvard Kennedy School and a Scholar in Residence at Connecticut College. She helped found the Northeast India Women Initiative for Peace and the Control Arms Foundation of India, spearheading work on small arms research for over two decades. Nepram worked with the U.N. Development Programme in India, the National Mission for Empowerment of Women and the European Union. Nepram is a recipient of the Sean McBride Peace Prize, Anna Politskovskaya Award, and CNN IBN Real Heroes Award. Action on Armed Violence named her one of “100 most important people in the world working on armed violence reduction.” Nepram is on the board of the International Peace Bureau.