[1] Mock was previously a practicing attorney, an instructor at University of Detroit Law School and a founding director of the Christian Conciliation Service of Southeastern Michigan.
He also helped create George Fox University's Senior Capstone general education course.
Specifically, the work seeks to explain first why terrorism, tyranny, and corruption are such political evils, and second why traditional military methods are not ideal for combating such problems.
[4] In his foreword to the book, Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield wrote that Mock "draws on sources typically ignored by policymakers to suggest new responses that offer genuine hope for a long-term winning strategy against terror and tyranny."
[3] Mock has also conducted numerous trips abroad in pursuit of peacemaking research, including to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Netherlands, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, and South Korea, and has completed (but not yet published) a work on the moral complexities of pacifism entitled Pacifist Under Pressure.