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Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson (born 1954) is British peace activist and internationally-recognised expert on nuclear disarmament. Director and Founder of Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy. Co-founding strategist and organiser of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Rebecca has worked on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation for more than 30 years.

Activism

Rebecca Johnson started her career as activist in 1982. She lived at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp for five years (1982-1987). At Camp she protested against the decision of British government to store cruise missiles at the Royal Air Force Station Greenham Common. During that time she founded the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp(aign). In the 1980s she served on CND’s Council as a vice-chair. Rebecca is now a vice-president of CND.

Rebecca organised Greenpeace’s test ban campaign until 1992. She founded the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy in the early 1990s. Now Rebecca is Director of Institute.

Rebecca worked as Vice Chair of the Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 2001 until 2007. She was Senior Advisor for the International Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (Blix Commission, 2004-2006). Dr. Johnson participated in Faslane 365 campaign in Scotland during 2006-07 and served on the Scottish Government’s Working Group on Nuclear Weapons.

Recently Rebecca Johnson has become involved with Extinction Rebellion’s campaign. This campaign persuades governments to treat climate destruction as a global emergency.

Rebecca is co-founding strategist and organiser of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Campaign received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for "its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons" .

Dr. Johnson is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM). Rebecca is a part of the women’s advisory group for the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA). Also she was one of the founders of Women in Black London.

Personal life

Rebecca Johnson moved from Shropshire to the US with her parents as a baby. She lived in an insular Hutterite community in North Dakota and Pennsylvania for the first seven years of her life. However, Johnson's family returned to the UK and settled in Sussex after the struggle within the community.

Dr. Johnson lives in Hackney with her partner Helen for eight years.

Education

Rebecca holds a B.Sc. in philosophy and politics from Bristol University and an M.A. in international relations of the Far East from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Rebecca Johnson completed a PhD in international relations and treaty negotiations at the London School of Economics in 2004.

Books

Rebecca Johnson has written multiple works. For example, Unfinished Business, an essential handbook on the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) negotiations. Dr. Johnson is an author of the analyses on the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Process, and the humanitarian strategies and negotiations of the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.