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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Refuse military participation as a matter of conscience
Decline participation in warfare when conscience and religious conviction prohibit killing or military service.
Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions
A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
- Religious systems
- 19/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 5/41
- Represented systems
- 24/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/24
36.5%
12.2%
25.8%
4.2%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Decline participation in warfare when conscience and religious conviction prohibit killing or military service.
This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.
Preserved calculation difference
The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.
All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93
Overall %: source 25.5 · recomputed 25.8065
Evidence, mapping by mapping
24 selected mappings
Theravada Buddhist Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Refuse military participation as a matter of conscience · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Five Precepts, Noble Eightfold Path, and Pali Canon ethical teachings
Open original source ↗ www.accesstoinsight.org
Official framework-level anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist
Framework-level mapping: verify exact text, school, translation, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 7265. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Tibetan Buddhist Universal Responsibility · Official framework-level anchor
Refuse military participation as a matter of conscience · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Official Dalai Lama teachings on compassion, nonviolence, environment, and universal responsibility
Open original source ↗ www.dalailama.com
Official framework-level anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist
Framework-level mapping: verify exact text, school, translation, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 7266. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
UNESCO Peace and Human Rights Education Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Refuse military participation as a matter of conscience · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
2023 Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights, International Understanding and Cooperation
Open original source ↗ www.unesco.org
Official framework-level anchor · International educational ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact article, doctrinal context, historical setting, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 7267. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
UNESCO Tolerance Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Refuse military participation as a matter of conscience · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
UNESCO Declaration of Principles on Tolerance
Open original source ↗ www.unesco.org
Official framework-level anchor · International cultural and educational ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact article, doctrinal context, historical setting, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 7268. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
History and geography: source limits
This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.
Explore connections in the same category
Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.
Live peacefully in attentive respect
Treat every person with compassionate attention and reject violence as a normal means of solving conflict.
Live simply to make room for others
Reduce material excess so time, attention, and resources remain available for God, community, and service.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 189 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 188 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 254 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 21 |
| Religions Sharing | 19 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 36.5 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 5 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 12.2 |
| All Systems Sharing | 24 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 25.5 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 4.2 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 33.4 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | 24.3 |
Religion-weighted commonality