Jurgita Bukauskaitė, PhD (Irish Research Council Scholar), is a lecturer and researcher in the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law at the University of Galway. Jurgita’s research interests and expertise focus on gender equality, the concept of gender in international law, gender and democracy, gender-based violence (with particular emphasis on violence against women, including domestic violence) as a human rights violation and applied research on gender-based violence. Her academic experience has been merged with a lengthy practical engagement in domestic violence advocacy non-governmental organisation at the governance level.

• 1. Introduction 2. From revolution to evolution of domestic violence 3. Theoretical conceptualisation of domestic violence 4. Conceptualising Domestic Violence in the Istanbul Convention 5. The Politics of Domestic Violence at the Crossroads of Western and Eastern Europe 6. Conceptualising Domestic Violence in Transitional Societies: The case of Lithuania 7. Conceptualising domestic violence in Ireland 8. Lessons Learned from the Case Studies 9. Concluding Remarks

Jurgita Bukauskaitė, PhD (Irish Research Council Scholar), is a lecturer and researcher in the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law at the University of Galway. Jurgita’s research interests and expertise focus on gender equality, the concept of gender in international law, gender and democracy, gender-based violence (with particular emphasis on violence against women, including domestic violence) as a human rights violation and applied research on gender-based violence. Her academic experience has been merged with a lengthy practical engagement in domestic violence advocacy non-governmental organisation at the governance level.

• 1. Introduction 2. From revolution to evolution of domestic violence 3. Theoretical conceptualisation of domestic violence 4. Conceptualising Domestic Violence in the Istanbul Convention 5. The Politics of Domestic Violence at the Crossroads of Western and Eastern Europe 6. Conceptualising Domestic Violence in Transitional Societies: The case of Lithuania 7. Conceptualising domestic violence in Ireland 8. Lessons Learned from the Case Studies 9. Concluding Remarks

Jurgita Bukauskaitė, PhD (Irish Research Council Scholar), is a lecturer and researcher in the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law at the University of Galway. Jurgita’s research interests and expertise focus on gender equality, the concept of gender in international law, gender and democracy, gender-based violence (with particular emphasis on violence against women, including domestic violence) as a human rights violation and applied research on gender-based violence. Her academic experience has been merged with a lengthy practical engagement in domestic violence advocacy non-governmental organisation at the governance level.

• 1. Introduction 2. From revolution to evolution of domestic violence 3. Theoretical conceptualisation of domestic violence 4. Conceptualising Domestic Violence in the Istanbul Convention 5. The Politics of Domestic Violence at the Crossroads of Western and Eastern Europe 6. Conceptualising Domestic Violence in Transitional Societies: The case of Lithuania 7. Conceptualising domestic violence in Ireland 8. Lessons Learned from the Case Studies 9. Concluding Remarks