The Association Between Political Violence and Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Open Access

Abstract

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women in both conflict and non-conflict settings. This analysis examines the impact of political violence on intimate partner violence against women in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).

Methods: A secondary analysis was conducted using data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics’ 2019 Violence Survey. Data from this nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 12,942 households in the oPt was collected between March and May 2019. A final analytic sample was restricted to 4261 currently married women aged 15-64. Separate negative binomial regressions were used to examine the association between exposure to political violence and physical, sexual, and psychological intimate partner violence against women, adjusting for covariates of IPV.

Results: Political violence was found to significantly increase the incidence rate of psychological IPV against women, after controlling for covariates (β = 0.25, 95% CI 0.11-1.25). For women that experienced political violence, the incidence rate of psychological IPV increased by 28 percent compared to the incidence rate of those that did not experience political violence. Political violence was not significantly associated with physical or sexual IPV.

Conclusion: This research adds to current literature highlighting the need to consider political violence and conflict settings as drivers for the perpetration and experience of IPV against women.

Table of Contents

Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... 4

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................... 5

Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.............................................................................................. 7

Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 7

A Framework of Intimate Partner Violence ........................................................................... 8

Individual Factors.................................................................................................................. 8

Relationship Factors ............................................................................................................ 10

Community Factors ............................................................................................................. 10

Political Violence and IPV ...................................................................................................... 12

Pathways Between Political Violence and Intimate Partner Violence ............................... 14

Conclusion ................................................................................................................................ 16

Chapter III: METHODS ............................................................................................................... 17

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) Violence Survey ..................................... 17

Population and Sample ........................................................................................................... 18

Variables .................................................................................................................................. 18

Outcome Variable ............................................................................................................... 18

Independent Variables ........................................................................................................ 19

Statistical Analysis................................................................................................................... 21

Limitations and Delimitations ................................................................................................ 21

Chapter IV: RESULTS ................................................................................................................. 22

Chapter V: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION ........................................................................ 28

References ..................................................................................................................................... 35

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School	Rollins School of Public Health
Department	Hubert Department of Global Health
Degree	M.P.H.
Submission	Master's Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Health Sciences, Public Health
Keyword	occupied Palestinian territory Political violence Intimate partner violence
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Dr. Cari Jo Clark, Emory University

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