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Conscientious Objection Resources

  • The GI Rights Hotline has a new phone number (877 447 4487 - 877 GI RGHTS) and website. The website provides links to military regulations, and has in-line summaries of those regulations, governing CO and other discharges from the military.
  • The GI Rights Hotline's older site, administered by the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, has extensive information on CO, especially for people currently in the military. Includes military regulations covering CO and easy-to-follow guidelines on applying for a CO discharge.
  • The Mennonite Central Committee, along with extensive information on conscientious objection, offers potential COs the opportunity to speak with veterans about the issue.
  • Catholic Peace Fellowship's page answering a few common questions about CO.
  • Catholics and War, CPF's pamphlet series. The first two pamphlets deal with CO, including tips for current servicemembers on writing a CO application.

    • General

    • Catholic Peace Fellowship. Dedicated to promoting peace, one soldier, one conscience at a time, for the creation of a "Mighty league of Catholic conscientious objectors."
    • Catholic Worker Movement. The Catholic lay movement that CPF sprang from. Includes writings of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and a directory of the over 150 Catholic Worker communities devoted to nonviolence, poverty, the works of mercy, and manual labor.
    • Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. Promotes individual and collective resistance to war and war preparations.
    • Center on Conscience and War. Dedicated to defending and extending the rights of conscientious objectors.
    • The Dharma and the Military, a project of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship focusing on CO and counter-recruitment among other things, all from a Buddhist perspective.
    • Fellowship of Reconciliation. An interfaith (esp. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Buddhist) group promoting nonviolence as a means to bring about a society of greater peace and justice.
    • I Will Not Kill. A program of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, encouraging youth and older adults to sign declarations of their refusal to kill.
    • Mennonite Central Committee's page on CO includes numerous other resources on peace, including educational materials and counter-recruitment information.
    • Orthodox Peace Fellowship. An association of Orthodox Christians from a number of nations striving to live the peace of Christ in their day-to-day lives.
    • Pax Christi USA. The largest Catholic peace organization in the US, with chapters throughout the country and the world. Pax Christi has numerous resources on CO, listed under the Conscientious Objection Resources section of this page.
    • Pentecostal Charismatic Peace Fellowship. Promotes Spirit-filled nonviolence and peacemaking.
    • War Resisters League. Advocates nonviolent action as a means to create a society free of war and exploitation. Emphasizes, among other things, nonviolent direct action and war tax resistance.