A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or...

The Conscientious Objector is a 2004 documentary film directed by Terry Benedict about the life of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who received...

World War I, conscientious objectors were permitted to serve in noncombatant military roles. About 2000 absolute conscientious objectors refused to cooperate...

who was killed in action during the Vietnam War and the second conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. Bennett received the medal after...

Local Boards to be more harsh on conscientious objector claims. There are two types of status for conscientious objectors. If a person objects only to combat...

His life has been the subject of books, the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector, and the 2016 Oscar-winning film Hacksaw Ridge, in which he was...

for deferments or exemptions, and assign draftees classified as conscientious objectors to alternative service work. All male U.S. citizens and immigrant...

Hwang, claim that the culture of militarism is so pervasive that Conscientious Objectors are stripped of the rights discussed in the Constitution when universal...

Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector directed by Terry Benedict. Set in World War II, Andrew Garfield...

December 1979 – 25 August 2012) was a United States Army soldier, conscientious objector, playwright, and divinity student. He volunteered for the army in...

days. The right to Conscientious Objection was legally recognised in 1920: An alternative community service for conscientious objectors was easily available...

Academy Awards. Hacksaw Ridge is based on Benedict's documentary, The Conscientious Objector; a film about Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss, who refused to...

avoidance are private and unpublicized. Examples include: Claiming conscientious objector status on the basis of sincerely held religious or ethical beliefs...

called conscientious objectors. Though these men had to either answer their conscription or face prison time, their status as conscientious objectors permitted...

The Conscientious Objectors' Commemorative Stone is on the north side of Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. In 1994 a stone...

military were members of the Jehovah's Witnesses. The number of conscientious objectors increased to 287 when the second year's cohort was conscripted...

expected to do. An individual exercising this freedom may be called a conscientious objector. The right to freedom of conscience is recognized by several international...

countries, conscientious objectors have special legal status, which augments their conscription duties. For example, Sweden allows conscientious objectors to...

alternative civilian work program for conscientious objectors in an attempt to reduce the numbers of objectors going to jail. That was never instituted...

obligations protecting conscientious objectors from service in the military. John Rawls in his A Theory of Justice defines a conscientious objector as an individual...

National Guard for 14 months. An alternative civilian service for conscientious objectors is possible, lasting 19 months. In the Turkish-speaking occupied...

Wakefield Prison was also used to intern conscientious objectors. In September 1918, a group of conscientious objectors took advantage of a slackening in the...

The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) was a United States nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people avoid or resist military...

named Antlion Soccer and Dear Esther, and a Doom 3 mod titled Conscientious Objector. The modding project was backed by the Arts and Humanities Research...

to enlist at the age of 21. He is noted as the earliest recorded conscientious objector, although it is believed that other Christians at the time also...

resistance to war has a long tradition, and a history that includes conscientious objectors, pacifists, deserters and draft dodgers, as well as those whose...

Union. York was drafted during World War I; he initially claimed conscientious objector status on the grounds that his religious denomination forbade violence...

1910 - September 15, 1939) was one of Jehovah's Witnesses and a Conscientious objector from Germany, and the first person to be killed for rejecting military...

him a star, secured him a contract with Universal—and made him a conscientious objector to World War II. He made a number of mostly forgotten B movies for...

focusing on American World War II veteran Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. The film garnered praise from critics...