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Record W4407799884 · doi:10.1163/17087384-bja10109

Resolution of Marital Disputes and Domestic Violence in Nigeria: The Role of Alternative and Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms

2025· article· en· W4407799884 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueAfrican Journal of Legal Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMarriage and Family Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDispute resolutionInternational lawResolution (logic)Political scienceConflict resolutionAlternative dispute resolutionCriminologyLawPsychologyComputer science

Abstract

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Abstract Marital unions that are normally expected to be blissful and ever-lasting are sometimes riddled with all manner of disputes often resulting in domestic violence. This is because of the inevitability of disputes in human interactions including marital unions. Sometimes, for cultural and religious reasons, victims of domestic violence in marital disputes are warned against reporting the violence to ensure marriage sustainability, marital privacy as well as to protect the welfare of the children of the marriage among other reasons. This approach seems to be ineffective as endurance of domestic violence over time often results in physical injuries, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and even death in some extreme cases. On the other hand, couples drag one another to different courts to seek legal redress and resolve marital disputes. Again, this approach does not seem to solve the problem. The court-based justice system has not proven to be a better forum of resolving connubial disputes that require confidential, swift, non-combative and effective dispute resolution mechanism. Hence, this article explores the possibility of using alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to solve marital disputes in Nigeria. It adopts the doctrinal research methodology to examine the role that alternative and traditional dispute resolution mechanisms could play in the amicable resolution of marital disputes and domestic violence cases. The article argues that alternative and traditional dispute resolution mechanisms could be more veritable and effective means of resolving matrimonial discords and domestic violence in Nigeria.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.307
Threshold uncertainty score0.193

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.265 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it