Author: Maria Santelli

What does a Trump administration mean for the GI Rights advocacy community?

President Trump has been and remains so unpredictable in his words and actions that there is much we still don’t know about what his administration holds for the men and women who wear the uniforms of the United States Armed Forces. Because…Read More »

Trends in Conscientious Objector Cases

By Maria Santelli, Center on Conscience and War Published in the Spring 2016 issue of On Watch. It’s called the Conscience Committee and it is a committee of the Army. It is not clear exactly who they are or what defines the…Read More »

Conscientious Objection and Secularism

With the majority of CO applicants today adhering to no religious practice or tradition, how does the military adapt? How do we?