Brian Phillips is a human rights practitioner and educator with a Ph.D in History from the University of Cambridge. He is the co-founder of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Oxford University Press), where he contributes regularly on human rights and the arts. He has worked as an independent human rights consultant since 2007. From 2003 until 2006, he was Chair of the Oxford Brookes University MA program in Humanitarian and Development Practice (UK) – where he was also Senior Lecturer in Human Rights Practice. He worked for eleven years as a campaigner and educator for Amnesty International in London (UK), where he was the Campaign Coordinator for the organization’s Europe Regional Program from 1995 - 2001. During 2001-2002, he was a Joseph Rowntree Quaker Fellow (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, UK) – teaching and writing on Quaker international work in the fields of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. He was closely involved in the development of the Quaker Peace and Social Witness program in the post-Yugoslav region (1996-2007).