Joe Bock (academic)

Joseph "Joe" G. Bock
Director, International Conflict Management program, Kennesaw State University
In office
1986–1992
Personal details
Born October 18, 1957
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Susan Lyke
Children 2
Residence Acworth, GA
Alma mater American University, University of Missouri-Columbia
Profession Politician, College Administrator
Religion Catholic
Website http://joebockforcongress

Joseph "Joe" Bock is an official with Kennesaw State University and former Missouri state representative. He served in the Missouri House of Representatives as a Democrat for three terms, starting in 1986 after he defeated a sitting Republican representative.[1] After challenging and losing to a Republican contender in Indiana,[2] Bock then directed Catholic Relief Services programs in Haiti, Bosnia, Thailand, and other countries. Bock left his position as director of global health training for Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health [3] to accept a position as the director of the International Conflict Management program at Kennesaw State University since August 2015.[4]

Career

In 2010, Bock took a two-month leave from Notre Dame to help Haiti following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[5]

Bock researches in the area of violence prevention, and has published three books.[5]

In 2014 Bock ran for Congress in Indiana's 2nd congressional district against the incumbent, Republican Jackie Walorski.[6] Bock won the Democratic nomination, but was defeated by Walorski in the general election.[2] According to Union Institute and University and Kennesaw State University, Bock also served as director of External Relations at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame, taught at University of Notre Dame, Monterey Institute for International Studies, Hebrew University, Eastern Mennonite University, and William Jewell College.[4][7] Other positions he has stated include executive director of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship at Haverford College and executive director of the Secure World Foundation.[4][7]

His humanitarian work has included directing Catholic Relief Services’ programs in Pakistan and Jerusalem/West Bank/Gaza Strip, and overseeing programs in Bosnia, Croatia, Guinea, Iraq, Kosovo, Liberia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Pakistan, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Thailand, and Uganda while serving as vice president at American Refugee Committee.[4][7] In 2010, he took a two-month leave from Notre Dame to serve as American Refugee Committee’s country director in Haiti following its devastating earthquake.[4][7]

Dr. Bock served as a panelist for InterAction in Washington, DC about international issues facing Internally Displaced Persons.[4][7] He served as a consultant with The Asia Foundation on conflict management and democratic governance, providing support in Thailand, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, where he worked on a conflict early warning and early response program of the Foundation for Co-Existence (Colombo, Sri Lanka), which formed the basis of his book The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention, which was published by MIT Press in 2012.[8][4][7] He is the author of two other books.

In December 2015, Dr. Bock was provided a 42-day Fulbright Specialist award to work with the Municipality of Athens, Greece on the migrant crisis. He has been a Fellow with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a Fulbright Specialist at University of Malta, and a Visiting Fellow at Gonzaga University, as well as a member of the Working Group on Reconciliation of Caritas Internationalis, based in Vatican City.[4][7]

Dr. Bock holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Social Work from the University of Missouri-Columbia.[4][7] After completing his Ph.D. at the School of International Service of American University, Dr. Bock served six years in the Missouri House of Representatives, with leadership positions as Chair of the Energy and Environment Committee and Vice-Chair of the Commerce Committee.[4][7] More recently, he was a candidate for the U.S. Congress from Illinois.[4][7]

Dr. Bock is on the Advisory Council of the War Prevention Initiative of the Jubitz Family Foundation and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Center of Conflict Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.[4][7] Dr. Bock is an editorial adviser to Development in Practice, a peer-reviewed journal founded by Oxfam Great Britain.[4][7] He has authored or co-authored articles in various peer-reviewed journals including, among others, Political Geography, Information Technology for Development, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, and Journal of Refugee Studies.[4][7]

After a brief stint at Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health, he is currently the director of the International Conflict Management program at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA.[4] Allegedly, his program is currently embroiled in a racial controversy between program faculty and African American students.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Missouri History-Missouri State Legislators
  2. 1 2 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/jackie-walorski-midterm-election-results_n_5854700.html
  3. ↑ "Notre Dame official weighs 2nd District run". Lexington Herald-leader. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Management, Ph.D. in International Conflict. "People » Ph.D. in International Conflict Management » Kennesaw State University". phd.hss.kennesaw.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  5. 1 2 "Joseph Bock". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  6. ↑ Colwell, Jack (20 October 2013). "COLWELL: New challengers for Walorski". South Bend Tribune. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Joseph G. Bock Archives - Community | Union Institute & University". Community | Union Institute & University. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  8. ↑ Joseph G. Bock; Foreword by John Paul Lederach (July 2012). The Technology of Nonviolence. The MIT Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0262017626.
  9. ↑ "Kennesaw State University - International Conflict Management Program Drama!". Kennesaw State University - International Conflict Management Program Drama!. Retrieved 2016-08-30.

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