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The Legacy of World War I: Peace Activism to the Present, Conscientious Objection Then and Now

Oct 24, 2017

Video: Maria Santelli, Bill Galvin and Jake Short from the Center on Conscience & War speaking at the National WWI Museum and Memorial.

Video: This Evil Thing

Jun 14, 2017

Excerpts from a performance during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. "Governments called it "Conscription" and "the Draft" ... COs called it "This Evil Thing!""

Desmond Doss: Conscientious Objector, Medal of Honor Recipient

Feb 14, 2017

Desmond Doss: Refused to carry a weapon & saved the lives of 75 men during the Battle of Okinawa By Marija Georgievska. Vintage News Desmond Thomas Doss is best known to the world as the war hero who refused to kill. He was a United States Army corporal who...

Update on NDAA and the proposal to register women

Dec 8, 2016

Don’t draft women (or men) Update on NDAA and the proposal to register women with the Selective Service System CCW has been monitoring the discussion about extending the draft and draft registration to women ever since the military opened up all combat positions to...

Maria Santelli’s Presentation at World Beyond War

Sep 26, 2016

Video: Maria Santelli, Executive Director of the Center on Conscience & War

Talking Points on Selective Service Registration

Sep 15, 2016

1) Draft registration for men has been a failure and a burden on millions of men. Rather than extend the burden to women, it’s time to end it now. Gil Coronado, the former director of Selective Service said in the 1999 annual report, "If we are not successful in...

Objecting to War: The Human Conscience vs. the US Military

Sep 26, 2015

Conscientious objection wages an active challenge to war, one soldier at a time. By Maria Santelli, CCW Executive Director.

We can end Selective Service (Draft) Registration now!

Sep 13, 2013

We can End Selective Service (Draft) Registration now! CCW has been monitoring the discussion about extending the draft and draft registration to women ever since the military opened up all combat positions to women. The most significant movement has been in...

Marines Implement New Standards for Conscientious Objectors

Sep 9, 2013

By Bill Galvin. First published in On Watch by the Military Law Task Force (nlgmltf.org) In a new version of Marine Corps Order (MCO) 1306.16, issued in June of this year, the Department of the Navy, Marine Corps Headquarters, heightened the evidentiary standard a...