A peace education initiative

Build your
conscience.

Newsletter ✦Exercises ✦Journal Practice ✦Peace Tradition ✦CO Documentation ✦Personal Statement ✦$4 / Month ✦Newsletter ✦Exercises ✦Journal Practice ✦Peace Tradition ✦CO Documentation ✦Personal Statement ✦$4 / Month ✦

Conscientious Objective is a peace education initiative. For $4 per month, subscribers receive a structured and documented journey through the great traditions of nonviolence, pacifism, and moral refusal: from Thoreau to Gandhi to King, from Quaker theology to contemporary just war critique.

What you receive
01
Newsletter
Every month: a piece of history, a philosophical thread, a fact from the natural world, something to listen to, something to read. All of it circles back to the same question — what does it look like to build a life around peace?
01 — NEWSLETTER
"May's issue traces the mycorrhizal networks beneath old-growth forests — how dying trees redistribute carbon to younger ones — alongside the 2003 women of Liberia who stood at a door and refused to move until a war stopped."
One issue per month. Yours to keep.
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Exercises
Short practices that help you locate and articulate your own moral position. Not assigned. Not graded. Just prompts that ask you to look honestly at what you already believe.
02 — EXERCISES
"Go somewhere you've never been — a park, a street, a room in your own home you usually pass through. Sit for ten minutes and write down everything alive in it. Not what it means. Just what's there."
One exercise per month. Written, dated, yours.
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Journal Practice
One prompt per month that asks something specific about your own life. Your written responses — dated and kept — become the primary material of your peace education record.
03 — JOURNAL
"Describe the last 24 hours as a texture, not a summary. Where were you most fully present? Where were you somewhere else? Don't evaluate — just describe. Date it. Keep it."
A growing record that begins the day you subscribe.
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CO Documentation
Each month's engagement compiles into a growing portfolio — a timestamped record of sincere peace education that can support a formal conscientious objector application.
04 — DOCUMENTATION
"A CO application requires documented, longstanding belief. The window after an induction notice is approximately ten days. This record begins the month you subscribe — not the month you need it."
Available on request. Yours from day one.
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Peace now.
Not later.