Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador: An International Research Partnership

The Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador collaborative research initiative is an international partnership of survivors, scholars, artists, lawyers, museums, architects, community organisers, engineers, municipal governments, civil society organisations, and mental health professionals who are committed to documenting the history of the Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992) and preventing future violence. Using decolonial and participatory methodologies, our goal is to engage in high-impact, community-driven research projects, oral histories, and accessible knowledge sharing activities that approach historical memory work holistically through the intersections of justice, art, music and theatre, intergenerational education, documentation and testimonies, mental health and healing, commemoration, environmental reparation and local economic reconstruction.