Pacifists Are Fighting Hard Against the Draft

Four years ago, an international organization that represents conscientious objectors released the results of a comparative survey, which sought to track the method by which various countries around the world deal with the growing phenomenon of conscientious objection. International conventions define a conscientious objector as someone who refuses to enlist in the army because he holds pacifist beliefs that prevent him, for reasons of conscience, from belonging to an organization that acts in violent ways, such as an army.