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Conscientious Objectors in Israel
InConscientious Objectors in Israel, Erica Weiss examines the lives of Israelis who have refused to perform military service for reasons of conscience. Based on long-term fieldwork, this ethnography chronicles the personal experiences of two generations of Jewish conscientious objectors as they grapple with the pressure of justifying their actions to the Israeli state and society-often suffering severe social and legal consequences, including imprisonment.While most scholarly work has considered the causes of animosity and violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,Conscientious Objectors in Israelexamines how and under what circumstances one is able to refuse to commit acts of violence in the midst of that conflict. By exploring the social life of conscientious dissent, Weiss exposes the tension within liberal citizenship between the protection of individual rights and obligations of self-sacrifice. While conscience is a strong cultural claim, military refusal directly challenges Israeli state sovereignty. Weiss explores conscience as a political entity that sits precariously outside the jurisdictional bounds of state power. Through the lens of Israeli conscientious objection, Weiss looks at the nature of contemporary citizenship, examining how the expectations of sacrifice shape the politics of both consent and dissent. In doing so, she exposes the sacrificial logic of the modern nation-state and demonstrates how personal crises of conscience can play out on the geopolitical stage.
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These Strange Criminals
Sometimes intensely moving, and often inspiring, these memoirs show that in some cases, individual conscientious objectors - many well-educated and politically aware - sought to reform the penal system from within either by publicizing its dysfunction or through further resistance to authority.
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Conscientious objection and human rights : a systematic analysis
To which extent is it legitimate, in view of freedom of conscience and religion, to sanction individuals for refusing to take part in an activity they claim to be incompatible with their moral or religious convictions? To answer this question, this study first clarifies some of the concepts of conscientious objection. Then it examines the case law of international bodies and draws distinctions in order to differentiate several types of objections, hence identifying the evaluation criteria applicable to the respect that each one deserves. Finally, this study proposes indications as to the rights and obligations of the State in front of those different types of objections. -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Buried Together
Buried Together is a historical novel based on the true story of Silas Beasley Jr., a conscientious objector, who protected his family following the Civil War. The family was forced to quarantine and Silas had to face the consequences of his decisions.
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Conscience : two soldiers, two pacifists, one family : a test of will and faith in World War I
Norman Thomas and his brothers' upbringing prepared them for a life of service--but their calls to conscience threatened to tear them apart. Conscience is Louisa Thomas's account of the remarkable Thomas brothers in a time of trial, exploring the difficult decisions the four brothers faced with the advent of World War I. Sons of a Presbyterian minister and grandsons of missionaries, they shared a rigorous moral upbringing, a Princeton education, and a faith in the era's spirit of hope. Ralph enlisted right away, heeding President Wilson's call. Arthur, the youngest, was less certain about the righteousness of the cause but sensitive to his obligation as a citizen. Evan became a conscientious objector; when the truce was signed in 1918, he was in solitary confinement. Norman left his ministry in the tenements of East Harlem, New York, and began the course he would follow for the rest of his life, fighting for civil liberties and social justice, and against violence as a method of change.--From publisher description.
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers
An uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two
conscientious objectors In the summer of 2013,
Suzanne Kesler Rumsey discovered hundreds of letters exchanged
between her late grandparents, Miriam and Benjamin Kesler. The
letters, written between 1941 and 1946, were filled with typical
wartime sentiments: love and longing, anguish at being apart,
uncertainty about the war and the country’s future, and
attempts at humor to keep their spirits up. What is unusual about
their story is that Ben Kesler was not writing from a theater of
war. Instead, Ben, a member of the Dunkard Brethren Church, was a
conscientious objector. He, along with about 12,000 other men,
opted to join the Civilian Public Service (CPS) and contribute to
“work of national importance” at one of the 218 CPS
camps around the country. In
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Small Histories during World War
II, Letter Writing, and Family History Methodology , Rumsey
has mined not only her grandparents’ letters but also
archival research on CPS camps and historical data from several
Mennonite and Brethren archives to recapture the narrative of
Ben’s service at two different camps and of Miriam’s
struggle to support herself and her husband financially at the
young age of seventeen. Ben and Miriam’s life during the
war was extraordinarily ordinary, spanning six years of
unrecognized and humble work for their country. Ben was not
compensated for his work in the camps, and Miriam stayed home and
worked as a day laborer, as a live-in maid, as a farmhand, and in
the family butcher shop in order to earn enough money to support
them both. Small histories like that of her grandparents, Rumsey
argues, provide a unique perspective on significant political and
historical moments.
Blessed Are the Peacemakers also explores the rhetorical
functions of letter writing as well as the methodology of family
history writing. Ben and Miriam’s letters provide an apt
backdrop to examine the genre, a relatively understudied mode of
literacy. Rumsey situates the young couple’s correspondence
within
ars dictaminis , the art of letter writing, granting new
insights into the genre and how personal accounts shape our
understanding of historical events.
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