Joe Bock directs external relations at the Kroc Institute. He oversees international partnerships, the alumni network, and relationships with nongovernmental organizations. He also supports the work of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. He is a member of the Task Force of the Millennium Development Initiative/Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity and is an editorial advisor to Development in Practice, a peer-reviewed journal founded by Oxfam Great Britain.
Bock received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the School of International Service of American University in Washington, D.C., and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in social work from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
He has 12 years of humanitarian relief and development experience with Catholic Relief Services and the American Refugee Committee. He was a Fellow with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Executive Director of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship at Haverford College and at the Secure World Foundation. He served 6 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.
Bock served as a member of the Working Group on Reconciliation of Caritas Internationalis, based in Vatican City. He has taught in the International Relations Department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Eastern Mennonite University, and at William Jewell College.
Among Bock’s publications are Sharpening Conflict Management: Religious Leadership and the Double-Edged Sword (Praeger) and The White House Staff and the National Security Assistant (Greenwood Press). He has authored or co-authored articles or chapters in the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Journal of Peace Research, Development in Practice, Peace & Change, Mission Studies, Community Development Journal, The Psychology of Ethnic and Cultural Conflict and Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace—Or War.
