Many countries conscript citizens for a period of national service. The draft laws of a number of these countries recognize that the individual's conscience and religious convictions play a determining part in his response to this obligation. Accordingly, these laws provide several ways by which the citizen can fulfill his service. The three most prevalent are:
(a) he can be ordered to armed combatant training and duty in the armed forces; or
(b) he can be ordered to non combatant training and duty in the armed forces, but is exempted from bearing arms; or
