Janet Bloomfield

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Janet Bloomfield (born Janet Hood in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, England in 1953) is a peace and disarmament campaigner who was chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) from 1993 to 1996.

Bloomfield was educated at Abbeydale Grange School Sheffield and Sussex University, where she obtained a BA(Hons)degree in Geography. She has been married since 1976 to Richard Bloomfield. She has two children - Lucy, born in 1980 and Robin, born in 1982. She currently lives in Saffron Walden, Essex.

Bloomfield was the Chair of CND, the largest peace and disarmament organisation in Europe from 1993 - 1996. During this time she developed CND's campaign around the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which included the production of the highly influential "Blueprint for a Nuclear Weapon Free World. She has been active in the anti-nuclear movement since 1981. She worked in all aspects on CND. She was a local group secretary, national council and executive, regional worker in the West Midlands in the mid 1980s. She was the National Vice-Chair for two years before being elected Chair in 1993. Currently serves as an honorary Vice-President of CND. She was a consultant (Vice-President 1994 -1997) to the Geneva based International Peace Bureau, a Nobel Peace Prize winning network of non-aligned peace organisations in 44 countries, which nominated Joseph Rotblat for the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. She was a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, the global network to eliminate nuclear weapons. She was the Convenor of the Abolition Now Campaign Working Group of Abolition 2000.

Bloomfield travelled extensively abroad engaged in peace movement activities on many occasions in Europe, North America, the Far East and the Pacific. She made frequent appearances on radio and TV. She has extensive experience of public speaking and writing for peace movement and other publications. She is listed as an expert speaker on the UN Department of Disarmament Affairs database.

Bloomfield organised the successful campaign to stop arms trade shows being held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in 1991. She organised and led the Atomic Mirror Pilgrimage 1996 around nuclear and sacred sites of England, Scotland and Wales. This was filmed and made into a documentary called "Sacred Fire".

Since 1997 Bloomfield has worked as a freelance consultant and writer on nuclear and related issues. She has worked with The Body Shop, Charter 88, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, the Forum for UN Renewal and the Nuclear Free Local Authorities UK. She is currently a senior consultant on UK Security Policy to the Oxford Research Group (ORG). She is also the Project leader for ORG's dialogue with decision makers skills training programme.

Her main work at the moment is as the British Coordinator of the Atomic Mirror. The purpose of the Atomic Mirror is to create a nuclear-free world, using the sacred and creative arts to transform our understanding of human security from a reliance on nuclear weapons to a sustainable relationship with all life. The Atomic Mirror works with activists, artists, and indigenous peoples from nuclear sites, developing initiatives and joint activities to reveal the secrets of the Nuclear Age, inspire people to take action, and abolish nuclear weapons and power. Past and current projects include: Atomic Mirror Pilgrimages to sacred and nuclear sites in the US, Japan, and Britain; performances on nuclear issues in over 10 cities around the world; the production of films and educational videos such as the ten-minute video "And the Fence Came Tumbling Down" about the transformation of Greenham Common; an ongoing fund to bring nuclear downwinders to testify at international events, such as NPT Prepcoms, Abolition 2000 meetings, International Court of Justice hearings, Hague Appeal for Peace; local, national, and international advocacy for nuclear abolition, including the production of the annual Abolition 2000 Report Card every year since 1996.The Atomic Mirror is a founding member of Abolition 2000. It has official NGO status with the UN Department of Public Information. The Atomic Mirror is a founding member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness Programme.

Bloomfield's leisure interests include family and friends, gardening, travel, music, reading, birdwatching.

Bloomfield was the Chair of Governors of the Grange Farm Primary School, Coventry from 1988-1992. She was a member of the Board of Governors of Friends School, Saffron Walden from 2003-2005. She is a Charter 88 signatory and a Fellow of the British-American Project. She joined the Green Party in 1996. She is a member of Thaxted Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She is currently a member of the Peace Campaigning and Networking Group of the Quaker Peace and Social Witness.