Conscientious objectors to military service today can opt for alternative service. But in World War I, the lines were blurred. Drafted members of historic peace churches often found themselves in ...

This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Joy Metzler had expected to still be ...

On April 25, LNP | LancasterOnline published the article “Solanco High School ‘Trench Day’ gives students hands-on wartime experience.” With International Conscientious Objection Day approaching on ...

Conscientious objectors in Turkey continue to face cycles of prosecution, sentencing, and re-prosecution for the same acts of refusing compulsory military service. While earlier cases often resulted ...

When we think about harm, we typically think of physical or psychological suffering. But ethicists point out that we can also suffer “moral injury” when forced to do something at odds with our deeply ...

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SEOUL (Reuters) - Dozens of South Korean conscientious objectors were released from jail on parole on Friday after a landmark court decision that conscience is a valid reason to refuse mandatory ...

On January 16, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled in a landmark decision that the extradition of a conscientious objector to the war in Ukraine is permissible. The question was whether the ...

Raymond G. De Vries received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Greenwall Foundation, the Office of Research at the University of Michigan, and the Institute for Research on Women and ...