The Center on Conscience & War is a non-profit organization that advocates for the rights of conscience, opposes military conscription, and serves all conscientious objectors to war.
Military COs
Have you become a CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR since enlisting in the US Military? We can help.For Military Servicemembers
- Who is a conscientious objector in the military?
- Online CO Application Writing Tool
- Other discharges and issues: GI Rights Hotline
Youth
Concerned about SELECTIVE SERVICE registration? Or, maybe you're thinking about ENLISTING in the military?For youth thinking about the military
Faith Communities
ResourcesFor Faith Communities
Peace Orgs & Educators
ResourcesFor Peace Orgs & Educators
- Public Education & Outreach – Invite us to do a workshop!
- Fund for Education & Training
Military COs that CCW has helped
Attention Military Servicemembers
If you’re in the US military and are interested in seeking discharge or reassignment as a Conscientious Objector, we can help. We’ll work with you to navigate the complex admin process. Our services are free of charge. If you’re facing deployment, don’t wait to call us at 800-379-2679.
Military COs that CCW has helped
Advisory Council
Center on Conscience & War
GI Rights Hotline
877-447-4487
On Conscience
Conscientious Objection
Selective Service
Laws & Regs by State
The Reporter
for Conscience' Sake
On Nonviolence
& Conscientious Objection
Who is a Military CO?
Current DoD Regs
CO Internationally
A Survey of the Americas
CCW helps those in the US seeking asylum from service in their own countries, such as when their CO applications have been denied.
No Such Thing as a Fair Draft
The registration, which continues today, created a crisis of conscience for many conscientious young men who saw registering for the draft as a form of participating in war, which violated their Quaker beliefs.
Algerian Conscientious Objector
Algerian Conscientious Objector (taken from Google Translator; original message below) Soufiane Ababou is a young man from the town of 22,360 Lamtar – wilaya of Sidi Bel Abbes – Algeria – who turns 26 next month. Soufiane was insubordinate...
Artist Against War
Artists Against War-DC is a not-for-profit association engaging artists to utilize their art as a voice within today’s political dialogue. Created by Creative Healing Music (CHM) founder Taj Johnson (BrotherTaj) AAW-DC creates fund-raising events where artists...
So you think you know the cost of our military?
So You Think You Know the Cost of Our Military? Let me suggest that you only know a part of it. I am not weighing in on the good or the bad of all the costs that I will point out to you here. I am just pointing them out. Some of them, such as providing care for...
Once a Marine always a Marine…Maybe.
By J.E. McNeil on Conscientious Objectors and Wrongness “When you join the military,” says J.E. McNeil, executive director of the Center on Conscience on War, “one of the hundreds of forms you sign says, ‘I didn’t apply to be a conscientious...