alternative service
Noncombat military substitute
Alternative service is work performed in place of military service, typically by conscientious objectors who refuse combat duty on moral or religious grounds.
During wartime drafts, governments have allowed qualifying individuals to serve in hospitals, forestry programs, or other civilian roles instead: He spent two years doing alternative service at a mental health facility.
The term also appears in legal contexts for methods of delivering court documents when standard delivery fails.
- conscientious objectorOne refusing military service morally
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- draft resistanceOpposition to mandatory military service
- moral objectionEthics-based opposition
- conchieOne refusing military duty
noncombatant · draft · Mennonite · Quaker · volunteerism · tribunal · nonviolence · social work · religious exemption · draft evasion · draft board · objector · anti-war movements · conscientious objection · war resisters · compulsory · duty · exemption
alternative servicemilitary service
Duty in armed forces
combat duty · active combat · military conscription · military deployment · soldiering
alternative servicecompulsory military service
Obligatory enrollment in armed forces
alternative servicevoluntary enlistment
Unpressured military signup