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OA‘Spagaat van een dienstweigeraar’
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Doopsgezinde Bijdragen, Volume 51, Issue 1, sep. 2025, p. 247 - 261
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- 01 sep. 2025
Samenvatting
Abstract
Choosing between refusing military service and defending your country is a difficult choice, as a former conscientious objector. What questions should you ask young people? The obligation to perform military service in the Netherlands was temporarily halted after the Cold War, when the army was professionalized. Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, politics are now more frequently discussing the obligation of military service. At the age of seventeen, boys and girls receive a letter from the national government that registers them for military service obligations. Is it not necessary to have a conversation with the younger generation before they agree to that call?
© Pieter Post