Social Entrepreneurs in the Human Rights Movement: Antidote for Terrorism

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Babloo Loitongbam, an Ashoka fellow from India, has designed a human rights curriculum that gives traditional village institutions the tools they need - historical, legal, social - to organize against growing human rights violations in the violence-torn state of Manipur. These include numerous mass killings of civilians by the army.Babloo's two-pronged strategy modernizes local traditional institutions that historically have served as guardians of social justice and peace, while coordinating and opening access to discordant and isolated citizen sector organizations, national and state human rights commissions and international human rights groups. In the process, he is building a bridge from local groups to the international human rights movement to support a new human rights environment that is transparent, highly responsive and decentralized.