Joseph G. Bock is an American academic and politician, who is currently a professor with Kennesaw State University's Department of Political Science and International Affairs.
[1] Bock then directed Catholic Relief Services programs in Haiti, Bosnia, Thailand, and other countries and served as Vice President of the American Refugee Committee.
[5] 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.
[3][4] 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.
[3][4] 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.