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El Salvador research project receives major grant
Western News, June 16, 2021
By Debora Van Brenk
Felipe Tobar survived three massacres in the 12 years that civil war wracked El Salvador – a memory he has carried for four decades and has kept alive with help from a collaborative research initiative.
Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador is one of five Western partnership and partnership development research grant recipients announced this week by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
The other four SSHRC grants to Western professors, part of a $635-million envelope of funding support across disciplines, go to Peter Howe and Angela Schneider for research on Special Olympics and the Olympics, respectively; professor Joseph Orange on mitigating dementia effects; and Abe Oudshoorn on long-term affordable housing (continue reading).
