{"id":403,"count":1,"description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/8fzn2dqu_400x400\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11852\"><img class=\"wp-image-11852 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/8Fzn2DQU_400x400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><strong>Brian Murphy<\/strong> is an independent analyst, organizer, educator, and writer.\u00a0Until 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\u2019 common 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 international NGO based in Costa Rica, which provided political and material support 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 (Montr\u00e9al) from 1992 to 2010, where he was active as an external advisor and seminar leader on issues of social activism and citizen participation. Brian is an active member on the Steering Committee of the Ottawa-based International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/iclmg.ca\/about-us\/\">ICLMG<\/a>, which he helped create in 2002. He is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of <a href=\"http:\/\/aidwatchcanada.ca\/about\/\">AidWatch Canada<\/a>, based in\u00a0 Black Rock, Nova Scotia. Brian is the author of numerous articles on global social justice, civil society organizations, and the process of social change. He currently writes at <a href=\"http:\/\/murphyslog.ca\/\">MurphysLog.ca<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/authors\/brian-murphy\/","name":"Brian Murphy","slug":"brian-murphy","taxonomy":"authors","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/authors"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?authors=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}