vagradoda.se

Vägra Döda is a project that collects testimonies, photographs, films and documents from men who performed unarmed service (vapenfri tjänst, VTP) in Sweden between 1966 and 1992 instead of traditional military service. It examines the conscientious objection movement, the right to invoke conscience, and the social norms and gender structures around military service, and it relates these questions to the reintroduction of conscription in 2017 and Sweden's NATO membership in 2024.

The project is run by Björn Larsson and Carl Johan Erikson, both former conscientious objectors and artists. The website is an ongoing publication with a publication licence and presents the project's work, including the catalogue The New Subjects (published February 2025), an exhibition at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin (September 2024) and PARSE Journal issue 15 (September 2024).

The site is published in Swedish and English.

Product: Online publication and archive of testimonies, films and documents from men who did unarmed service in Sweden, 1966–1992.