Resources for Conscientious Objector Applicants
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Downloadable materials for use in drafting your CO Application
- The ConscientiousObjectorLawyer.com Guide to applying for CO status (PDF download – Version 3, Updated May 2014)
- Blank CO application (Word .DOC format)
- The Guide for COs in the Military – published by the Center on Conscience and War
Organizational Resources for military CO applicants
The following groups are ones that either provide direct assistance to CO applicants with the application process itself, or that help CO applicants find legal counsel. I have worked with all of these groups and believe that they provide accurate information, but as always I encourage you to do your own research before relying on them or anyone else.
- Center on Conscience and War
- War Resisters League
- Quaker House
- Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild
- GI Rights Hotline
Other Resources
The following groups and websites may be of use to you as well. These groups cover a wide-range of concerns, including support of political war resistance, faith-based conscience organization and general GI Rights and veterans rights groups. As always, I encourage you to not rely on only one source of information, but to confirm what you hear with your own research. (FYI, I do not always agree with the statements/actions of these groups.)
GI and Vet Organizing Groups & Publications
- Courage to Resist – This group provides limited funding for conscientious objectors and other war resisters who need legal counsel, but can’t afford it.
- Under the Hood Cafe(Fort Hood, TX)
- Coffee Strong (Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA)
- Clearing Barrel Cafe (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Veterans for Peace
- GI Special
- Soldier Say No
- March Forward
- The War Resiers Support Campaign in Canada
- Traveling Soldier
Religoius Peace and Conscience Organizations
- Adventist Peace Fellowship
- American Friends Service Committee
- Baptist Peace Fellowship
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
- Catholic Peace Fellowship
- Churches of Christ Peace Fellowship
- Church of God Peace Fellowship
- Disciples Peace Fellowship
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Jewish Peace Fellowship
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship
- Mennonite Central Committee
- Mennonite Peace & Justice Network
- Muslim Peace Fellowship
- Orthodox Peace Fellowship
- Pentecostal Charismatic Peace Fellowship
- Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
- Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship