Berkley Center

Rebecca Johnson is associate professor of national security affairs and dean of the Marine Corps War College at Marine Corps University. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy, where she teaches graduate courses on international ethics, religion and peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction. Johnson has previously been a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Her current research explores the ethical constraints on counterinsurgency, specifically how the obligation to honor the norm of noncombatant immunity influences soldiers’ moral responsibility in complex operations. This research marries Johnson’s previous training in transatlantic security and conflict in the Balkans with her interests in military ethics. Johnson holds a B.A. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, M.Div. from Wesley Theological Seminary, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University.