Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson is a British peace activist and expert on nuclear disarmament. She is the director and founder of Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy as well as a co-founding strategist and organiser of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

Activism Johnson started her career as an activist in 1982. She lived at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp for five years (1982-1987). There she protested against the decision of the British government to keep cruise missiles at RAF Greenham Common. During that time, she founded the Aldermaston Women’s Peace . In the 1980s, she served on the CND’s Council as a vice-chair. She is now a vice-president of CND.

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