#PJSA2021 panel - "Intersectionality and the Military Draft"
Channel: Peace and Justice Studies Association
Date: 2021-10-19

- Sebastian Muñoz-McDonald, Dartmouth College
- Rosa del Duca, Truth in Recruitment speaker
- Rivera Sun, CODEPINK
- Edward Hasbrouck

“Selective Service” registration has long been a hot-button issue in the U.S. From the draft resistance and antiwar movements of the 1970s to the modern question of whether U.S. military draft registration should be abolished, made to include women in addition to men, or kept as a male-only requirement, it is clear that the issue of military draft registration persists in political discourse. The nation is now grappling with legislative division and considers legal cases such as National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service, which could change the course of draft registration in the U.S. In this panel, speakers will discuss U.S. military draft registration, the historical role of the draft, and paths forward in policy and public awareness from intersectional perspectives. With a foundation in the idea that issues of peace and security should involve holistic advocacy informed by analyses of the ways that gender, class, race, age and other factors intersect, speakers will engage in dialogue about how the expansion of draft registration could affect marginalized people domestically and abroad.