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No. 13 (2025)

Connecting domestic violence with terrorism

Submitted
January 8, 2025
Published
2025-02-24

Abstract

Domestic violence and terrorism share structural and foundational characteristics where they are simultaneously intimate and structural, global and local. Domestic and interpersonal violence are very much everyday terrorism as they control through fear (emotional warfare) but get much less attention from the state or researchers as a feminist issue. Everyday terrorism is hidden & excused (although personally and frequently experienced) while global terrorism is highlighted & feared (although rarely experienced). Domestic violence should be considered a top global public health priority and should be treated as terrorism that is inflicted mainly by men against women and children, and hence men should bear the consequences as such.

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