Conscientious objector
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| - | A '''conscientious objector''' (CO) is an individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war or, in some cases, to take any role that would support a combatant organization [[armed forces]]. In the first case, conscientious objectors may be willing to accept [[non-combatant]] roles during [[conscription]] or [[military service]]. In the second case, the CO objects to any role within [[armed forces]] and results in complete rejection of conscription or military service and, in some countries, assignment to an alternative [[civilian service]] as a substitute for conscription or military service. Some conscientious objectors may consider themselves either [[pacifism|pacifist]], [[nonresistance|non-resistant]], or [[antimilitarist]]. | + | A '''conscientious objector''' (CO) is an individual who, on religious, [[moral]] or [[ethical]] grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war or, in some cases, to take any role that would support a combatant organization [[armed forces]]. In the first case, conscientious objectors may be willing to accept [[non-combatant]] roles during [[conscription]] or [[military service]]. In the second case, the CO objects to any role within [[armed forces]] and results in complete rejection of conscription or military service and, in some countries, assignment to an alternative [[civilian service]] as a substitute for conscription or military service. Some conscientious objectors may consider themselves either [[pacifism|pacifist]], [[nonresistance|non-resistant]], or [[antimilitarist]]. |
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A conscientious objector (CO) is an individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war or, in some cases, to take any role that would support a combatant organization armed forces. In the first case, conscientious objectors may be willing to accept non-combatant roles during conscription or military service. In the second case, the CO objects to any role within armed forces and results in complete rejection of conscription or military service and, in some countries, assignment to an alternative civilian service as a substitute for conscription or military service. Some conscientious objectors may consider themselves either pacifist, non-resistant, or antimilitarist.
See also
- American Friends Service Committee
- Amnesty International
- Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
- Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
- Canada and Iraq War resisters
- Catholic Worker Movement
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
- Christian anarchism
- Christian pacifism
- Center on Conscience & War
- Conscientious objection to military taxation
- List of Conscientious objectors
- Conscription
- Conscription in the United States
- Dickinson v. United States
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of thought
- Friends' Ambulance Unit
- GI Rights Network
- Lawful order
- List of Iraq War resisters
- List of pacifist faiths
- Medical Cadet Corps
- Nuremberg Principles
- Nuremberg Defense
- Nuremberg Principle IV
- Pacifism
- Parisi v. Davidson
- Pax Christi
- Peace Churches
- Peace movement
- Peace Pledge Union
- Refusal to serve in the Israeli military
- The Right to Refuse to Kill
- Tax resistance
- War resister
- War Resisters' International
- War Resisters League
- War Resisters Support Campaign (Canada)
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