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    Franco-British relations and the question of conscription in Britain, 1938-1939 by Hucker, Daniel

    Published 2008
    “…This article examines the relationship interaction between the French campaign for the introduction of British conscription during 1938-39 and the ebbs and flows of British public opinion on the same issue. …”
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    Hardly a subject for laughter. A visual history of conscription in Australia during The Great War. A case study of cartoons as a historical source. by Alcroft, Jeffrey

    Published 2017
    “…‘Hardly a subject of laughter’ is a visual history about the 1916 and 1917 referenda for military conscription for overseas service in Australia during the 1914-1918 War using cartoons as primary evidence. …”
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    'What kind of democracy is this?': Conscientious objectors to the National Service Schemes by Oliver, Bobbie

    Published 2014
    “…This chapter examines a different kind of sacrifice – that made by young men who went contrary to the tide of popular opinion to make a stand against conscription for military service, and in particular, conscription for active service overseas in the Vietnam War. …”
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    Curtin’s Circus : the Prime Minister and Canberra news correspondents, 1941-1945 by Coatney, Caryn

    Published 2011
    “…Major forces converged with the commencement of another global war, the rapid expansion of relatively new radio and film industries, along with the appointment as prime minister of a skilful Labor communicator, well-known for his passionately anti-conscription views during World War I.This thesis investigates Curtin’s success in persuading the predominantly conservative news media to promote his wartime views. …”
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    Military crimes by Wright, Jacob L., Crouch, C.L.

    Published 2015
    “…While the so-called Code of Hammurabi from Mesopotamia contains stipulations for soldiers, it is concerned with methods of conscription, military discipline, and concerns of soldiers’ families—yet not conduct on the battlefield. …”
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    Unity is Strength. A history of the Australian Labor Party and the Trades and Labor Council in Western Australia, 1899-1999 by Oliver, Bobbie

    Published 2003
    “…Together with the well publicized struggles and triumphs of the twentieth century including: the 40-hour week, the right of free speech and assembly, health and safety in the workplace, an equitable voting system, are Party splits over conscription in 1916 and in the 1950s creating the Democratic Labor Party; the rise of factionalism, disputes between the Party and the TLC, and 'WA Inc'.In the late 1990s, in the context of hostile 'Third Wave' industrial legislation and the 'War on the Wharves', the ALP and the Trades and Labor Council found new truth in the old motto, Unity is Strength.…”
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    Madrasas and recruitment of child soldiers: the scenario in Afghanistan by Eishan Jan, Mohammad Naqib

    Published 2019
    “…The study has found the three legal regimes under investigation have almost identical view pertaining to the lower age limit for the conscription of soldiers. As a result, the study has also established that many more underage students were recruited and used in hostilities in the armed conflict in Afghanistan during the last twenty years of the 20th century than it has been the case in the 21st century up to the present. …”
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    Stress inoculation in relation to war by Nair, Elizabeth

    Published 1989
    “…These experimental studies were conducted with pre-conscript males in Singapore. Singapore shares common characteristics, geographical, economic, political, demographic and military, with the three countries visited. …”
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    Child soldiers as a human security issue: a case study of Sierra Leone, 1991-2002 by Dutse, Asmau Isyaku

    Published 2019
    “…These factors include illiteracy, poverty, broken family, and coercive conscription. This conscription approach leads to human rights violations, such as amputation, mass murder, destruction of property and sexual abuse. …”
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    Lovers, not fighters: Left politics and brandos costumes in Capitães de Abril by Sabine, Mark

    Published 2017
    “…The endemic nature of brandos costumes is meanwhile implied by representing army conscripts and the common people as ill-suited to military engagement, but strongly disposed to ‘feminine’ values of love, solidarity, and compassion. …”
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    The Peacemaker's Role in the Anti-Vietnam War by Oliver, Bobbie

    Published 2015
    “…When the Menzies government reintroduced National Service in 1964 and then sent conscripted soldiers along with volunteer service personnel to fight in the Vietnam War, the pacifist movement in Australia was faced with the dilemma of whether to actively encourage young men to be conscientious objectors to National Service, or merely support those who already held such beliefs? …”
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    The comparative analysis on the laws governing national service between Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Philippines / Hariz Sufi Zahari …[et al.] by Zahari, Hariz Sufi, Muhammad Ikhwan Kwan, Jasmin, Zulfakar, Mawaddah Munirah, Khairulmaini, Muayyad

    Published 2014
    “…The legislations were examined on the issues revolving five (5) themes, namely the selection of candidates, duration for each respective programed, the status of identification of conscientious objectors, the provisions with regards to the conscripts or participants' absence without leave, and the punishments to those who fail to register to the programmers as provided in the legislations. …”
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    Journaling to research the potentiality and acceptability of bringing a mindfulness-based intervention into a junior school to support pupil wellbeing by Crawford, Andrea

    Published 2022
    “…Greater consideration of the ethical dilemmas, contradictions and concerns inherent when introducing MBIs into schools, invariably consisting of a vulnerable and conscripted audience.…”
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