Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram is the founder-director of Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network and convener of Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace. She received the Dalai Lama Foundation’s WISCOMP Scholar of Peace Fellowship in 2008 and has represented Indian civil society in meetings of the United Nations in Geneva and New York. She is the author of five books, most recently Deepening Democracy, Diversity and Women's Rights in India (2019).