Intimate partner violence and global public health

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) remains a misunderstood and underutilized concept to explain why violence occurs in intimate relationships. Current understandings of IPV continue to be conflated with other forms of violence such as sexual violence. This chapter interrogates the shortcomings of how the World Health Organization continues to undermine the legitimacy of robust and inclusive discourse surrounding who the victims and offenders are and who is excluded from their representation. Through the lens of intersectionality in terms of identity and institutional intersections, this chapter unpacks groups of marginalized individuals who remain hidden and invisible in contemporary conversations concerning IPV. While the chapter discusses these in traditional silos, readers are encouraged to consider what multiple forms of diversity look like in IPV outcomes and when the nexus of these identities coalesce how individuals are treated when multiple forces continue to render them invisible or pretend to include them in an illusionary attempt of being inclusive.