War Comes Home: Conflict Exposure and Intimate Partner Violence in Ethiopia

Workineh Ayenew; Andreas Kotsadam; Charlotte Ringdal; Espen Villanger

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Workineh Ayenew, Andreas Kotsadam, Charlotte Ringdal, Espen Villanger (2026). War Comes Home: Conflict Exposure and Intimate Partner Violence in Ethiopia. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2026:3)

Armed conflict can increase risks of violence within households, including intimate partner violence (IPV). Existing evidence links conflict exposure to IPV, but less is known about whether IPV risk is driven by the presence of conflict or by conflict intensity, whether conflict exacerbates pre-existing IPV or contributes to new IPV, and which household-level pathways accompany these associations. We examine these questions in Ethiopia, a country affected by recent large-scale conflict.

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