Joseph Gerson is the Director of Programs for American Friends Service Committee Northeast Region and Director of AFSC's Peace and Economic Security Program. With an extensive background in peace and justice campaigning since the U.S. Civil Rights movement, he has expertise in U.S. foreign and military policies, specifically pertaining to Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons & Disarmament, and foreign military bases. Gerson is the convener of the Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific, and co-founder of United for Peace and Justice (national) and United for Peace (Boston area). He works closely with Asian, Pacific, and European peace movements and is a member of the board of the International Peace Bureau and the Steering Committee of No to NATO/No to War. He was also the lead organizer of International Conference for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World on the eve of the 2010 NPT Review Conference and the NATO Counter Summit in 2012. Gerson is the author of several books, including Empire and the Bomb, The Sun Never Sets....Confronting the Network for U.S. Foreign Military Bases, With Hiroshima Eyes, and The Deadly Connection.