RT Article
T1 A Qualitative Study of Women’s Lived Experiences of Conflict and Domestic Violence in Afghanistan
JF Violence against women
VO 27
IS 11
SP 1862
OP 1878
A1 Mannell, Jenevieve
A2 Grewal, Gulraj
A2 Ahmad, Lida
A2 Ahmad, Ayesha
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767143931
AB This article empirically explores women’s lived experiences of domestic violence and conflict in Afghanistan. A thematic analysis of 20 semistructured interviews with women living in safe houses produced three main themes about the relationship between conflict and domestic violence: (a) violence from loss of patriarchal support, (b) violence from the drug trade as an economic driver, and (c) violence from conflict-related poverty. We discuss the bidirectional nature of this relationship: Not only does conflict contribute to domestic violence, but domestic violence contributes to conflict through justifying armed intervention, separating women from economic and public life, and perpetuating patriarchy.
K1 armed conflict
K1 Patriarchy
K1 Lived experience
K1 Domestic Violence
K1 Afghanistan
DO 10.1177/1077801220935191