Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface - Cynthia Cockburn Introduction - Coskun Üsterci and Özgür Heval Çinar Part I: Conscription and resisting conscription in a militarized society 1. The militarization of society: conscription and national armies in the process of citizen creation - Suavi Aydin 2. Patriotism and the justification of inequality in the construction of militarism - Melek Göregenli 3. Refusing to serve by other means: desertion in the late Ottoman Empire - Erik-Jan Zürcher 4. Sand in the wheels? Conscientious objection at the turn of the twenty-first century - Ulrich Bröckling 5. The morals and politics of conscientious objection, civil disobedience and anti-militarism | Nilgün Toker Kilinç 6. The philosophical grounds of conscientious objection - Taha Parla Part II: Conscientious objection as a critique of patriarchy, sexism and heterosexism 7. Where are the women in military conscientious objection? Some feminist clues - Cynthia Enloe 8. Refusing to identify as obedient wives, sacrificing mothers and proud warriors - Ayse Gül Altinay 9. Conscientious objection and masculine violence - Serpil Sancar 10. Rotten report and reconstructing hegemonic masculinity in Turkey - Alp Biricik Part III: Conscientious objection in the world: experiences and problems 11. Experiences of conscientious objection movements: South Africa, Greece and Paraguay - Andreas Speck and Rudi Friedrich 12. Military conscription, conscientious objection and democratic citizenship in the Americas - Matthew C. Gutmann 13. Conscientious objection in Chile - Pelao Carvallo 14. Conscientious objection in Spain: disobedience - Cthuchi Zamarra 15. Conscientious objection in Israel - Tali Lerner 16. Refusing to serve in the army for reasons of conscience in Greece - Alexia Tsouni and Michalis Maragakis 17. Conscientious objection in Turkey - Coskun Üsterci and Ugur Yorulmaz Part IV: Conscientious objection and law A International law 18. A view on international implementation of the right to conscientious objection - Özgür Heval Çinar 19. International standards on conscientious objection to military and alternative service - Rachel Brett 20. European standards on conscientious objection and alternative service - Friedhelm Schneider 21. Conscientious objection in international law and the Osman Murat Ülke case - Kevin Boyle B The case of Turkey 22. Conscientious objection and the Turkish constitution - Osman Can 23. The criminality of conscientious objection in Turkey and its consequences - Hülya Üçpinar Notes on contributors Index

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Examines the practice of conscientious objection. This book provides an introduction and tool for making sense of the history of nation-states in the 20th century and understanding the political developments of the early 21st century.

About the Author

A-zgur Heval A inar is a lawyer. Currently he is a Ph.D. candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Law Department at the University of Essex. He has also worked at several NGOs, including the Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Association of Turkey and Human Rights Watch on a voluntary basis. He is the author of "The Effects of European Court of Human Rights' Decisions on the Turkish Legal System" as well as a number of journal articles. Coskun A sterci is a peace and human rights activist. Graduatign from the Department of Economic and Commercial Science at the Ege University, he was a founder of the Izmir War Registers' Association. He is currently a member of the Human Rights Association, and has been working since 1992 at the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, where he is a board member. In addition, he runs workshops on anti-militarism, conscientious objection and non-violence.

Reviews

"This Turkish-oriented comparative study of conscientious objection to military service is illuminating, while exhibiting the courage of morally motivated individuals who defy coercive governments. In essence, this fine multi-authored volume challenges readers to assess the nature of good citizenship in the 21st Century." Richard Falk "The world's hundreds of thousands of conscientious objectors to military labor come alive in this volume, and not simply as figures of moral conscience. They are also revealed as symptoms and powerful critiques of militarism and the diverse problems it both feeds and draws on, including nationalism, patriarchy and class inequality, and racialism." Catherine Lutz, Watson Institute for International Studies& Department of Anthropology, Brown University