1914-1918 World War: Home Front Photographs. CWGC - Homepage. History - British History in depth: Women on the Home Front in World War One. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION. There have always been people who are committed to an idea, an ideal, a value, a religion, a cause.
Among them, there have always been people convinced that, at whatever risk to themselves, their commitment must not involve the use of violence or war. They have hung on to that conviction despite being despised, condemned and punished for it. It takes a lot of courage to hold out against violence and killing when your family and friends are threatened and may themselves turn against you, when you face public hostility and hatred, when the leaders of your society are determined that war, not peace, is the right and heroic way forward, and when you are accused of being a coward and a traitor.