 I'm Summer Lindsay, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, studying sexual violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Sexual violence is described as a weapon of war that tears apart the social fabric of society. My joint research with Carlo Cous shows that survivors of sexual violence do experience more stigma relative to other forms of violence. But the mapping from rape to stigma is not uniform across communities. A rape victim is much more likely to be stigmatized in villages where people tend to blame women for rape than in villages where people do not tend to blame women for rape. This reminds us that communities are responsible for some of the secondary trauma that rape victims experience. One way to improve the lives of victims and combat the effects of conflict-related sexual violence is to support international programs designed to change community attitudes about rape victims through social interventions.