| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the implications of intimate Partner violence (IPV) on marriage relationships in
emergency situation taking a case of the post covid-19 pandemic in Lango sub-region, northern Uganda.
The paper brings forth the emerging evidence of victims of intimate partner violence, opinions of key
stakeholders and analysis of North Kyoga Police records on cases related to intimate partner violence from
the nine districts that make up Lango sub-region in northern Uganda. Qualitative research approach was
employed to generate data from personal experience, interviews and review of Police crime records on
Gender-based and intimate partner violence between 2020-2023. Analysis was guided by the gendercide
and femicide theories. The findings indicate that intimate partner violence existed in the pre and post
covid-19 period. However, regardless of gender, both men and women alike suffered violence in marriage
relationship. Thus, IPV in Lango sub-region seemed a perennial vice among couples which manifested
severely in the forms of physical injuries, emotional, suicide and murder in extreme cases. The significant
causes of the IPV consisted of proximity between couples and family members, economic insecurity,
parental meddling in couple’s affairs, culture, patriarchy, infidelity and loss of trust and suspicion. Intimate
partner violence had negative implications on future marriage partnership especially with the rise in
mariticide that juxtaposed the femicide ideology of female vulnerability in marriage relationships. Intimate
partner violence has dire consequences on couples’ life, health, marriage and social and economic costs.
Thus, this paper contributes a new dimension to the application of gendercide and femicide theories in
emergency situation and informs interventions to protect vulnerable men in marriage partnerships.
Keywords: Emergency, Intimate Partner, Marriage Partnership, Northern Uganda, Violence | en_US |
