war resisters
Conscientious objection practitioners
War resisters are people who refuse to participate in war or military service, typically on moral, political, or religious grounds.
The term encompasses conscientious objectors who seek legal exemptions, draft evaders who flee or hide, and activists who organize against military conscription or specific conflicts: War resisters during Vietnam often fled to Canada.
- QuakersPacifist Protestant denomination
- peace symbolsEmblems representing harmony
- peace movementCampaign advocating nonviolent resolution
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
draft evasion · draft dodgers · protest marches · Bertrand Russell · conscientious objection · anti-militarism · nonviolence · sit-ins · boycotts · moral courage · hunger strikes · alternative service · prison sentences · military tribunals · anti-war literature · Vietnam War protests · civil disobedience · whistleblowing
- Sixties Activismanti-war movement, anti-war protests, campus protests, counterculture, peace movement
- activistsactivist, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activists, protester, campaigner
- conscriptionconscription, conscript, conscripts, draftee, draftees
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
- Military Desertiondeserter, desertion, AWOL, absconding, absconders
war resisterswarmongers
Advocates for military action
hawks · war hawks · militarists · jingoists · interventionists
war resisterssoldiers
Military personnel who fight
enlisted personnel · combatants · military volunteers · volunteers · servicemembers
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