International Rescue Committee, and FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, 122 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10168, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2010 Jan;70(1):152-9. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.09.027. Epub 2009 Oct 23.
The physical and psychological consequences of armed conflict and intimate partner violence are well documented. Less research focuses on their intersection and the linkages between domestic violence, gender-based discrimination, and the structural violence of poverty in armed conflict. This paper describes emerging themes from qualitative interviews with young women who have returned from abduction into the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, many of whom were forcibly given as "wives" to commanders. Their interviews reveal multiple levels of violence that some women experience in war, including physical and sexual violence in an armed group, verbal and physical abuse from extended family members, and intimate partner violence. Striking is the violence they describe after escaping from the rebels, when they are back with their families. The interviews point to how abduction into the armed group may exacerbate problems but highlight the structural factors that permit and sustain intimate partner violence, including gender inequalities, corruption in the police system, and devastating poverty. Findings suggest that decreasing household violence will depend on the strength of interventions to address all levels, including increasing educational and economic opportunities, increasing accountability of the criminal justice system, minimizing substance abuse, and improving the coping mechanisms of families and individuals exposed to extreme violence.
武装冲突和亲密伴侣暴力造成的身心后果已有大量记载。但较少研究关注这些后果的交叉点，以及家庭暴力、性别歧视与武装冲突中贫困的结构性暴力之间的联系。本文描述了对从乌干达北部上帝抵抗军绑架中返回的年轻女性进行定性访谈中出现的一些主题，这些年轻女性很多都被强迫成为指挥官的“妻子”。她们的访谈揭示了一些女性在战争中经历的多个层面的暴力，包括武装团体中的身体和性暴力、大家庭成员的言语和身体虐待，以及亲密伴侣暴力。引人注目的是，她们在逃离叛乱分子后所描述的暴力行为，当她们回到家人身边时。访谈指出，被绑架加入武装团体可能会使问题恶化，但也突出了允许和维持亲密伴侣暴力的结构性因素，包括性别不平等、警察系统腐败以及毁灭性贫困。调查结果表明，减少家庭内暴力将取决于加强干预所有层面的力度，包括增加教育和经济机会、提高刑事司法系统的问责制、最大限度减少药物滥用以及改善接触到极端暴力的家庭和个人的应对机制。
