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Title	A world free of war, Iowa City, IA, 2009, November 18, 2009
Statement of Responsibility	speaker: Joe Volk, Executive Secretary, Friends Committee on National Legislation ; hosted by: Terry Boles; introduced by: Paul Deaton
Venue	Rockwood Fellowship Hall, Congregational Church, 30 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, Iowa
Publisher	Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
Broadcasting Company	Community Television Service (Iowa City, Iowa)
Date Original	2009-11-18
Description	Joe Volk has more than three decades of experience working for peace and social justice. He played a key role in founding the Iraq Working Group and has served as a leader in the Washington Interreligious Staff Committee. He has lobbied Congress to support peaceful prevention of deadly conflict, nuclear disarmament, peace in Iraq, and many other issues. He is a past chair and current member of the Steering Committee of the US Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL). He serves on the Corporation Committee of Haverford College and on the Wilmington College Board of Trustees. Joe is also on the advisory council of Foreign Policy in Focus, a think-tank without walls. Prior to joining FCNL in 1990, Joe worked 18 years for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and served as its National Secretary for Peace Education from 1982 to 1990. In February 2007, he participated in a delegation of U.S. religious leaders that traveled to Iran and met with a variety of governmental, academic, and religious leaders in an effort to build intercultural and interreligious understanding during a time of great tension between the U.S. and Iranian governments. In April 2008, Joe traveled to China with other U.S. peace leaders to speak with Chinese scholars, government officials, and representatives from civil society groups about the growing interdependence between U.S. and Chinese foreign, environmental, and economic policies.
Topical Subject (LCSH)	World Politics
Personal Name Subject	Volk, Joe Boles, Terry Deaton, Paul
Geographic Subject	Earth United States
Chronological Subject	2000-2010
Type (DCMIType)	Moving image
Type (AAT)	Speeches
Type (IMT)	x-flv
Digital Collection	Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Presentations
Contributing Institution	Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information	Contact the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: http://international.uiowa.edu/outreach/community/icfrc/contact.asp
Digitization Specifications	DVD .vob format converted to Flash 7.0 video for display.
Duration	00:54:52
Date Digital	2010-01-27
File Name	20091118.flv

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