The other virus: Covid-19 and violence against civilians

Peacekeeping & Violence against Civilians

Domestic Violence and the COVID-19 Crisis

This letter intends to discuss how CoVID-19 pandemic and its related preventive measures such as maintaining social distance and reducing social and intimate relationships can affect the formation of domestic violence. It also points to the need for families to provide psychological support in dealing with this epidemic.

The Effect of Anxiety Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence Against Pregnant Women

In December 2019, cases of pneumonia were reported in China due to a new coronavirus. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced this disease as a pandemic, provoked global anxiety.

Cain's Choice: Causes of One-sided Violence against Civilians

Conflict researchers are divided on what explains the massive victimisation and murdering of civilians and unarmed combatants, but largely agree that many of these acts are intentional and that the main perpetrators rely on them for economic or political gain. The terror strategies against civilians, which the scholarly literature has recently dubbed one-sided violence, take for instance the fo...

Covid-19 as a Facilitator for increasing domestic violence against women: A systematic review study

due to restrictive conditions (Quarantine) have exposed family relations to some critical issues and have increased domestic violence against women. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the reasons for the increasing domestic violence related to coronavirus (COVID 19) by systematic review study. Methods: At the first stage, we gathered original articles from 2019 to 2020 i...