Born 1956. International secretary of Folkereisning Mot Krig (Norwegian section of War Resisters‚ International, WRI) 1976-79. Editor of Natur i Østfold 1979-1981. Editorial member of Ikkevold 1979-1984. A member of the working group who published articles of illegal American bases in Norway. The following trial ended in a Supreme Court Decision of "Not Guilty" with three against two votes.
Editor of the Nordic Ecophilosophical magazine Ringen 1981-84. Norwegian representative in WRI Council 1981-1991. Main teacher on the one year course in Peace Work at Grebbestad Folkhigh School 1987-88. Organiser of an international study conference on "Nonviolent Struggle and Social Defence" by WRI and Bradford School of Peace Studies, Bradford 1990.
Co-worker at The Tiananmen University of Democracy, 1990-93. Organiser and speaker on a study tour for Friends of the Earth in India 1993. Chairperson of War Resisters´ International 1991-98. Board member of Civilian Based Defence Assosiation 1992-94. Board member of Das Institut Fur Friedensarbeit und Gewaltfreie Konfliktaustragung 1992-
Study tour to Palestine/Israel (focus on refusing military service and nonviolent actions) 1994. Teacher at the courses in Conflict Resolution and Peace Work, Göteborg Univ. 1995 - .
Fact-finding tour for WRI to Chechnya during the war April 1996. Election observer at the referendum about NATO-membership in Hungary 1998
Board member at The Norwegian Peace Center 1998-. Elected Council Member of War Resisters‚ International 1998-
Main responsible for the courses in Security Policy and Peace Work Gøteborg University summer courses 1999-2001
PhD candidate at Peace and Development Research Institute Göteborg University 1999-. Member of Transcend 1999.
Main responsible for the course in War, Peace and Security Policy Göteborg University summer courses 1999/2001. Chair of the Danish Peace Academy 2000-2001. Student at The Norwegian National Defence College 2000. Former director of the Centre for Peace Studies at Tromsø University, Norway.
Teacher at Kulturverkstan autumn 2000-2001. Freelance worker in Conflict handling, mediation and reconciliation in many countries. Invited participant to more than fifty international conferences since 1975
Publications (books):
Sosialt Forsvar, ikkevoldskamp mot vår tids trusler. 2000 ["Social Defence, Nonviolent Struggle Against the Threats of Our Time"] in Norwegian.
Den nødvendige Ulydigheten (with Åsne Berre Persen) 1998 ["The Necessary Disobedience"] in Norwegian.
Socialt försvar - en ickevåldsrevolution, Morjärv 1990 ["Social Defence – A nonviolent Revolution"] in Swedish.
Aldri Mer 9.April, Sivilmotstand i Halden Kommune, Oslo 1987 ("Never More April 9." in Norwegian).
Bombemålet Norge, Atomstrategi, Ytringsfrihet og Razzia, Oslo 1984 (Editor) ["Norway the Bombtarget, Nuclear Strategy, Freedom of Speech and Police Raid"] in Norwegian.
Publications (chapters in books):
Sending the Protest Message - Making an Action Effective in Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns, WRI (2009)
Tips från en trädgårdsmästare in tålamod, tajming tapperhet, Kulturverkstans första tio år. Red Karin Dahlborg, Kulturverkstan (2009)
Environmental protest, Norway, 20th century in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest Ed by Immanuell Ness, Wiley-Blackwell (2009)
External Financing of Opposition Movements in Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity, ed. by Howard Clark, Pluto Press (2009)
Israel/Palestine - Multiple Agendas and Division Lines (with Andrew Rigby) in The Borders of Islam, Exploring Huntington's Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to the Virtual Ummah, ed. by Hansen, Mesy and Kardas, Hurst Publishers Ltd, (2009)
Waves of Nonviolence and the New Revolutionary Movements in Seeds of New Hope:Pan-African Peace Studies for the Twenty-First Century ed. by Judith Atiri and Matt Meyer, African World Press (2008)
Four articles in the SAGE Reference project Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice 2007:
Israeli Peace Movement in Volume 2: 762-65
Political Humor in Volume 3:1131-34
Political Satire in Volume 3: 1134-36
War Resisters' International in Volume 3: 1450-51
Nonviolence: More than the absence of violence in Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies ed by Webel and Galtung 2007.
Peace Research Needs to re-orient in Peace Studies in the Chinese Century ed. by A Hunter, Ashgate 2006.
Rebelen från Nazaret [The Rebel from Nazareth] in Jesús och Ickevåld by Engell-Nielsen, Kristna Fredsrörelsen 2006.
La complejidad de los conflictos y las opciones noviolentas in Acción Política No-violenta, una opción para Colombia , Bogota, Colombia 2005.
Militären jagar terrorismens skugga [The Military hunting the shadow of terrorism] in Laglöst Land by Flyghed and Hörnqvist, Ordfront 2003.
More than hundred other articles in journals and magazines
Johansen became a TFF associate in spring 2001 and was a member of the board 2003-2006.
