Peace Organisations
http://www.peacenews.info Peace News: a regular magazine for peace activists
http://wri-irg.org/en War Resisters International (WRI): an international organisation offering direct support to individual resisters and campaigning on extending the principle of conscientious objection
http://www.warresisters.org War Resisters League: A UK branch of WRI
http://warresisters.wordpress.com War Resister’s League Blog
http://www.whitepoppy.org.uk The white poppy for peace is worn on remembrance day instead of red poppies. “The White Poppy symbolises the belief that there are better ways to resolve conflicts than killing strangers.”
http://www.ppu.org.uk Founded in 1934, the Peace Pledge Union is the oldest secular pacifist organisation in Britain.
http://www.iwm.org.uk The Imperial War Museum has much material which not only glorifies war but also imperialism. Nevertheless it holds an interesting archive of personal papers of conscientious objectors and another on pacifists. These archives can be viewed at the museum by appointment
Individual Conscientious Objectors:
First World War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-soldier-henry-farr-executed-for-cowardice Henry Farr
Second World War
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/224.html Franz Jagersatter
Iraq and Afghanistan
http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/385/419/8606/3/3 Michael Lyons and Mohsin Khan
Books
Baker, George. The soul of a skunk; the autobiography of a conscientious objector. Scholartis Press 1930 An Objector from the First World War tells the story of his imprisonment for refusing to bear arms and his experiences at the hands of others
Brock, Peter. Liberty and Conscience: A documentary history of Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War. OUP USA 2002. Based on a rich collection of documents on a war rarely covered from this perspective, this book illuminates the critical role of religion in the history of US pacifism
Brock, Peter. These strange criminals: An anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors from the Great War to the Cold War. University of Toronto Press 2004. This anthology gives voice to imprisoned objectors from UK, US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. The editor is a pre-eminent peace historian.
Bryan, Alex. Bloody Conchie! Quaker Home Service 1986. A memoir of a Quaker Objector imprisoned during World War II
Boulton, David. Objection Overruled. London, MacGibbon and Kee 1967. A study of those groups and movements in England that were opposed to World War 1.
Corns, Catherine and Hughes-Wilson, John. Blindfold and alone. Cassell and Co. 2001. A record of British Military executions during World War 1.
Daly, James; Bergman, Lee and; Loeb, Jeff. Black Prisoner of War: A Conscientious Objector’s Vietnam Memoir. University Press of Kansas 2000. Chronicles the story of James Daly, a young black soldier held captive by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese and subsequently accused (and acquitted) of collaboration with the enemy.
Delgado, Aiden. The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector in Iraq. Beacon Press 2007. Describes the journey of a Buddhist US soldier from fighting to Objection.
Elster, Ellen and Sorensen, Majken Jul. Women and Conscientious Objection – An Anthology. War Resisters International 2010. Includes World War 2 entries from UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium plus subsequent Objections in Israel, Eritrea, USA, Turkey, Korea, Paraguay, and Colombia.
Pearce, Cyril. Comrades in Conscience: The Story of an English Community’s Opposition to the Great War. Francis Boutle 2001. Records the vibrant opposition to the First World War in Huddersfield where socialists, Christian pacifists and wealthy non-conformists liberals combined and lays lie to the oft paraded image of jingoism and women handing out white feathers.
Weller, Ken. Don’t be a soldier! The Journeyman Press 1985. A description of the radical anti-war movement in North London 1914-1918.
Gioglio, Gerald R. Days of Decision: An oral history of Conscientious Objectors during the Vietnam War. Green Décor 1989.