Acronym	Definition
CONOBJTR	Conscientious Objector

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(25) Although the statute exempts conscientious objectors from combat service, those granted conscientious objector status must still serve the U.S.

Reclaiming the in-service conscientious objection program: proposals for creating a meaningful limitation to the claim of conscientious objection

As a result, a majority of the Turkish Cypriot assembly backed legislation which would allow conscientious objectors alternatives to completing their military service and reservist duties.

CYPRUS: Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector freed from jail

Dr Eirug said: "Seven of those conscientious objectors were from Wales, including the first one to die, Walter Roberts.

Historians have been 'lazy about interpreting how the war went' In his latest Martin Shipton Meets podcast, our chief reporter talks to Dr Aled Eirug, a journalist turned academic who has written a book called The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918

to see that the conscientious objector is dealt with in the same way as

"Canada's First Martyr": The Suspicious Death of David Wells, Winnipeg's First-World-War Pentecostal Conscientious Objector

In 2004 and 2011, the court ruled against conscientious objectors, making national defense a priority over individual rights.

Decision on objectors near, says Constitutional Court

In the First World War, conscientious objectors were assessed by a local tribunal, which rarely granted absolute exemption, instead enlisting them in the Army, including the Non-Combatant Corps, where many disobeyed orders and ended up in prison.

You white-livered cur... You dirty, sniffling coward; MUSEUM LAYS BARE THE GAUNTLET OF HATE AND BILE FACED BY THE MEN WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT

Some of the conscientious objectors were sentenced to a certain period in military jail, and others were released to prevent publicity.

Convicts and Heroes: Wittgenstenian Afterthoughts on Uri Barabash's In Clean Conscience and Double Alpha

THE moving and powerful stories of conscientious objectors are to be brought to life in a new theatre project.

Moving and surprising stories of First World War conscientious objectors

But during World War II, from 1942 to 1946, the "camp" had a very different purpose: It was a prison of sorts, housing conscientious objectors - COs - whose personal convictions ran so contrary to the idea of war that their moral sense could not allow them to participate.

Prisoners of peace

military applied for conscientious objector designation.

Just-war issue grips Gulf conflict debate

Schinkel (2007), for example, argues that while there is a distinction between conscientious objection as "a private phenomenon and conscientious objection as a political-juridical phenomenon," this difference is immaterial as it is the combination of motivations, actions, and subsequent consequences that define something as conscientious objection or someone as a conscientious objector. Thus, authors such as Rice, Alegre, and Cronin, Reysen, and Branscombe (cited above) are in line with Schinkel in their usages of the term "conscientious objection" for their studies.

Homeschooling as an act of conscientious objection

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