Selective Conscientious Objection: Accommodating Conscience and Security

ISBN-13: 9780367302481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str.

Michael F. Noone Jr

Opis

This book draws on a variety of disciplines in order to illuminate the considerations which may affect any change in the present policy -the process as well as the product for the maintenance and expansion of America's military forces.

Spis treści

Conscience and Security: An Introduction -- Accommodation to Selective Conscientious Objection: How and Why -- The Right to Accommodation: Should It Be Legislatively Recognized? -- Selective Service and the Conscientious Objector -- A Pacifist's View of Conscientious Objection -- The U.S. Catholic Bishops and Selective Conscientious Objection: History and Logic of the Position -- A Bishop Looks at Selective Conscientious Objection -- The Good of Selective Conscientious Objection -- Alternative Service: The Significance of the Challenge -- In-Service Conscientious Objection -- The Moral Judgment, Action, and Credibility of Israeli Soldiers Who Refused to Serve in Lebanon (1982-1985)

O autorze

Michael F. Noone, Jr., is an Associate Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America He retired as a Colonel after twenty years' service in the U.S. Air Force as a judge advocate. His publications include "Military Social Science Research in Law" (forthcoming, Armed Forces and Society); ''Rendering Unto Caesar: Legal Responses to Religious Nonconformity in the Armed Forces," St. Mary's Law Journal, 18 (1987).