Civil service

See also: Civil service (homonymy)

The civil service is the most current form of alternative to the Military service obligatory, suggested by some of the country knowing the Conscription. He addresses to the conscientious objectors.

The civil service is sometimes called alternative service or service of replacement .

In the majority of the countries, there does not exist free choice between military service and civil service. That or that which refuses the combatant service must justify its request. The criteria for acceptance at the civil service mark a line between the moral reasons only or ethical S, and the social reasons or Politique S. Them goods objectors are those which referent with a transcendent order the human laws, with religious or humanistic reasons, those are accepted at the civil service. bad objectors call into question the Institutions of the State in a manner or other, they are condemned to sorrows of Prison.

The civil service is carried out in general in the social domain, like a help in the hospitals, work with elderly or handicapped. It can be sometimes also achieved in agriculture, environmental protection or the development assistance.

The international Civil service (SCI) is a pacifist association which organizes engagements voluntary S. It was created in 1920 with an aim of promoting the principle of an alternative to the conscription, like the civil service.

The civil service should not be confused with the Civil security or Civil protection.

In the world

Country proposing a civil service

Civil service (Germany).
Civil service (Swiss).
Austria. See in particular associations Austrian Social service and Austrian Service abroad.
Italy.

Countries which proposed a civil service

Since the abandonment of the Conscription in several countries, the civil service does not take place any more to be.

Civil service (Belgium), when the conscription existed.
Civil service (France), when the conscription existed. Replaced by a Voluntary civil service.

Particular cases of alternative service

Austrian Service in memory of the holocaust - Service of the memory in Austria

See too