Law professor’s report highlights paramilitarism links to domestic violence
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Research by a law professor at University College Dublin has highlighted significant links between intimate partner violence and paramilitary coercive control in Northern Ireland.
Professor Aisling Swaine, professor of peace, security and international law at UCD Sutherland School of Law, collaborated with Marie Brown, CEO of Foyle Women’s Aid and Foyle Family Justice Centre, on a new report.
The research was funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund and launched at an event in Derry last week.
In the report’s introduction, the authors state: “This research aims to deepen understanding of women’s experiences of contemporary paramilitarism in Northern Ireland.
“It evidences the coercive net in which some women live their lives — how coercion colours their intimate, familial and community relationships, as well as their ability to seek help and their experience of services when they do.
“It focuses on women who are experiencing IPV in their intimate relationships with men, who in variant ways, draw paramilitarism into their relationship.”
Professor Swaine leads a European Research Council (ERC) research project on this subject area in UCD Sutherland School of Law.
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