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Someday They’ll Have a War and Nobody Will Come
Author(s) -
Lynd Staughton
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0130.2010.00687.x
Subject(s) - conscientious objector , commit , law , contradiction , tribunal , nobody , political science , german , mandate , law of war , spanish civil war , philosophy , computer security , international law , computer science , epistemology , database , linguistics
There is a contradiction in U.S. law concerning conscientious objection. The Nuremburg Tribunal was premised on the concept that an individual must refuse to commit war crimes in a particular war. High‐ranking German and Japanese personnel who were found to have violated this mandate were executed. The Nuremburg concept has been incorporated in the United States Army’s manual. Yet, the law of conscientious objection still requires a member of the military to object to service in all wars, that is, to be a pacifist, in order to qualify for conscientious objection. This must be changed.