Applying a Peacebuilding Framework to Gendered Partner Violence in Rural Canada
Nancy M. Ross, Dalhousie University
This article describes a case study into the perceptions of cultural and structural causes of gendered partner violence identified by research participants living rurally in one region of Eastern Canada. The research portrayed in this article is informed by a critical peacebuilding framework and feminist theory within a critical realist ontology. It explores the ways in which a peacebuilding framework may contribute to the study of genderbased violence by deepening and broadening an analysis of the causes of interpersonal violence.