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Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy is an independent analyst, organizer, educator, and writer. Until his retirement at the end of 2006, Brian was a member of the staff team of the Canadian international social justice organization Inter Pares, where his work focused on policy development and programme support for Inter Pares' com- mon cause action in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Canada. He also served from 1983 to 2004 on the governing body of the Project Counselling Service, an inter- national NGO based in Costa Rica, which provided political and material sup- port to the self-organization of people and communities dislocated by violence and repression in Latin America. Brian served on the Advisory Committee for the Institute in Management and Community Development at Concordia University (Montréal) from 1992 until it closed in 2010, where he was active as an external advisor and seminar leader on issues of social activism and citizen participation. Brian remains an active member on the Steering Committee of the Ottawa-based International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group'ÄîICLMG (https://iclmg.ca/about- us/), which he helped create in 2002; and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of AidWatch Canada, based in Black Rock, Nova Scotia (http://aid- watchcanada.ca/about/). Brian is the author of numerous articles on global social justice, civil society organization, and the process of social change. He currently writes at MurphysLog.ca.

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