«It didn’t happen, most commanders say, when confronted with sexual violence during the civil war», says Susan Risal. She is a peace practitioner based in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the Chief Executive Officer of Nagarik Aawaz, a peace-building organization which works with conflict-affected youth and women. In her work, she brought together women from both sides of the Nepalese conflict, the Maoist rebels and the Nepalese army. And she insists on the fact, that denying the facts of sexual violence in the patriarchal Nepalese society is an obstacle to really deal with the underlying causes for the civil unrest in her country.