©Shutterstock Rise of  Abuse and Violence Against Women During COVID-19 Lockdown Shulie Madnick November 25, 2022 Summary In a preliminary analysis of 38-articles published in September 2020 in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, just six months after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global pandemic, there was evidence of an escalation in domestic abuse and violence reports against women during the COVID-19 lockdown. My research topic examines the causes of the rise of abuse and violence against women during the COVID-19 lockdown, the emerging studies on the topic throughout the Pandemic, and the reformulated coping and combatting strategies for women who face abuse during this period. A multi-disciplinary synthesis of how a global health crisis, the Pandemic, exacerbated an already existing, destructive sociological pattern of violence against women and the appropriate, time-sensitive conflict resolution strategies to alleviate the physical a