Conscience Government And War

Author : Rachel Barker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000458275

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Conscience, Government and War by Rachel Barker Pdf

This book, first published in 1982, is a systematic and detached analysis of the 60,000 British conscientious objectors in the Second World War, forming an examination of the relationship between the individual and the State in time of war. It sets out to show how the British Government dealt with the challenge that conscientious objectors posed and how far it was able to correct the abuses and injustices that occurred in the First World War. It traces the background of pacifism between the Wars and the introduction of conscription, and gives a detailed account of the functioning of the Conscientious Objectors’ Tribunals and an assessment of their work. It goes on to examine the reactions and attitudes of Tribunal members, employers and the rest of the population, and how these were affected by the Government lead. It recounts the experience of objectors in civilian life and private and public employment, and how they fared in the armed forces and prisons. It also assesses the contributions made by the voluntary organisations who helped conscientious objectors in the war.

Author : Susanna Mancini,Michel Rosenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107173309

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The Conscience Wars by Susanna Mancini,Michel Rosenfeld Pdf

Explores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.

Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001668337

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War and the Liberal Conscience by Michael Howard Pdf

For centuries liberal minded men have been horrified by the pain and waste of war. From Erasmus, who saw war above all as a product of stupidity, to the Marxists who see it as a matter of class conflict, they have produced social theories to account for its occurrence and have tried to devise means to end it. Their prescriptions have been various. The central view of the Enlightenment was that wars would end when the ambitions of princes could be curbed by the sanity of ordinary men. At first the commercial classes seemed to be the new force that would produce this happy state, but by the end of the nineteenth century they themselves (the 'capitalists') were being stigmatized as the instigators of war. Similarly, the nineteenth-century liberals at first believed that the rise of the new independent nation-states of Europe would lead to a permanent peace as the wishes of the masses (naturally peace-loving) were able to express themselves. Again, the supposed agents of peace were soon seen as a prime cause of wars. Despite these contradictions there have been certain continuing themes in the search for a means to end wars, and one of the most enlightening things in this book is they way in which it is possible to see how these themes recur in subtly different forms in different periods of history. Professor Howard traces them from the renaissance to our own time, through the social, political and intellectual groups that gave birth to them. Throughout the whole story runs the continuing contrast between those who hoped to find a single cause for the disease, leading to a lasting cure, and those who understood that, in Professor Howard's words, 'this was a task which needs to be tackled afresh every day of our lives'.

Author : Erwin Knoll,Judith Nies
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000032255

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War Crimes and the American Conscience by Erwin Knoll,Judith Nies Pdf

Consists of an edited transcript of the proceedings of the Congressional Conference on War and National Responsibility, Washington, D.C., 1970, and supplementary material contributed by the participants.

Author : Ann Wright,Susan Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1608465845

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Dissent: Voices of Conscience by Ann Wright,Susan Dixon Pdf

Stories of men and women, who risked careers, reputations, and even freedom for truth.

Author : Rochelle G. Saidel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438418483

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The Outraged Conscience by Rochelle G. Saidel Pdf

Motivated by moral outrage, a small number of individuals in America today is vigorously protesting the presence here of accused Nazi war criminals and collaborators. The Outraged Conscience documents their individual efforts. A vital addition to the literature on the Holocaust, this book looks closely at the separate activities of these dedicated seekers of justice. It reveals that they are a diverse lot, each with different reasons for total commitment to the issue. The Outraged Conscience also probes more general moral questions: Can there be valid justification for the United States government allowing Nazi war criminals to enter the country and, in some cases, employing them? Is there a satisfactory explanation for the years of inaction by government officials, major American Jewish organizations, veteran groups, and the news media on this practice? The lives, stories, and reasons for involvement of these justice seekers are part of modern American history. This book puts their stories on the record.

Author : Amy J. Shaw
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774858540

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Crisis of Conscience by Amy J. Shaw Pdf

The First World War's appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada's first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec, this has obscured the important role of those who saw military service as incompatible with their religious or ethical beliefs. Crisis of Conscience is the first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War. The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship during a key period of Canadian nation building.

Author : Louisa Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101515303

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Conscience by Louisa Thomas Pdf

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 beautifully written account of the remarkable Thomas brothers at the turn of the twentieth century. At a time of trial, each brother struggled to understand his obligation to his country, family, and faith. Centered around the story of the eldest, Norman Thomas (later the six-time Socialist candidate for president), the book explores 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. Two became soldiers. Ralph enlisted right away, heeding President Woodrow Wilson's call to fight for freedom. A captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, he was ultimately wounded in France. Arthur, the youngest, was less certain about the righteousness of the cause but sensitive to his obligation as a citizen-and like so many men eager to have a chance to prove himself. The other two were pacifists. Evan became a conscientious objector, protesting conscription; when the truce was signed on November 11, 1918, he was in solitary confinement. Norman left his ministry in the tenements of East Harlem, New York, and began down the course he would follow for the rest of his life, fighting for civil liberties, social justice, and greater equality, and against violence as a method of change. Conscience reveals the tension among responsibilities, beliefs, and desires, between ideas and actions-and, sometimes, between brothers. Conscience moves from the gothic buildings of Princeton to the tenements of New York City, from the West Wing of the White House to the battlefields of France, tracking how four young men navigated a period of great uncertainty and upheaval. A Thomas family member herself (Norman was Louisa's great grandfather), Thomas proposes that there is something we might recover from the brothers' debates about conscience: a way of talking about personal liberty and social obligation, about being true to oneself and to one another.

Author : Christopher Coker
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040165469

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War And The Illiberal Conscience by Christopher Coker Pdf

An evocative exposition of the long-standing struggle between liberalism and illiberalism, focusing on the revolt against liberalism from the end of the 19th century to the present day. "The range of (Christopher) Coker's erudition is stunning, and the rapid leaps across intellectual eras, disciplines, and national borders are breathtaking".--Seyom Brown, Brandeis University.

Author : George Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UCAL:$B748841

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Our Common Conscience by George Adam Smith Pdf

Author : Erika Blériot,Brent Coutts,Sylvain Leduc,Lucy Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Military deserters
ISBN : 0473316218

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Battle of Conscience by Erika Blériot,Brent Coutts,Sylvain Leduc,Lucy Stone Pdf

Author : Roger Craft Peace
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558499324

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A Call to Conscience by Roger Craft Peace Pdf

Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administration's attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1980s was not allowed to proceed quietly. Tens of thousands of American citizens organized and agitated against U.S. aid to the counterrevolutionary guerrillas, known as "contras." Believing the Contra War to be unnecessary, immoral, and illegal, they challenged the administration's Cold War stereotypes, warned of "another Vietnam," and called on the United States to abide by international norms. A Call to Conscience offers the first comprehensive history of the anti?Contra War campaign and its Nicaragua connections. Roger Peace places this eight-year campaign in the context of previous American interventions in Latin America, the Cold War, and other grassroots oppositional movements. Based on interviews with American and Nicaraguan citizens and leaders, archival records of activist organizations, and official government documents, this book reveals activist motivations, analyzes the organizational dynamics of the anti?Contra War campaign, and contrasts perceptions of the campaign in Managua and Washington. Peace shows how a variety of civic groups and networks?religious, leftist, peace, veteran, labor, women's rights?worked together in a decentralized campaign that involved extensive transnational cooperation.

Author : Susanna Mancini,Michel Rosenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316625826

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The Conscience Wars by Susanna Mancini,Michel Rosenfeld Pdf

In this work, Professors Mancini and Rosenfeld have brought together an impressive group of authors to provide a comprehensive analysis on the greater demand for religions exemptions to government mandates. Traditional religious conscientious objection cases, such as refusal to salute the flag or to serve in the military during war, had a diffused effect throughout society. In sharp contrast, these authors argue that today's most notorious objections impinge on the rights of others, targeting practices like abortion, LGTBQ adoption, and same-sex marriage. The dramatic expansion of conscientious objection claims have revolutionized the battle between religious traditionalists and secular civil libertarians, raising novel political, legal, constitutional and philosophical challenges. Highlighting the intersection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities, this volume showcases this political debate and the principal jurisprudence from different parts of the world and emphasizes the little known international social movements that compete globally to alter the debate's terms.

Author : Shirley Castelnuovo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803232884

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Soldiers of Conscience by Shirley Castelnuovo Pdf

The history of Japanese Americans in World War II does not record the stories of these resisters. It does not mention the War Department Special Organization, to which many of them were transferred, or the individuals who were tried and sentenced by military courts to long prison terms. The two hundred conscientious military resisters felt betrayed by the government and viewed the decision to imprison Japanese Americans as an immoral acquiescence to West Coast racism."--Pub. desc.

Author : Barry M. Goldwater
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691131177

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The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry M. Goldwater Pdf

In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only remarkable, but radical. He argued for the value and importance of conservative principles--freedom, foremost among them--in contemporary political life. Using the principles he espoused in this concise but powerful book, Goldwater fundamentally altered the political landscape of his day--and ours.