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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

April 16, 2007 was the day of my community’s worst crisis, its worst collective trauma, ever. But one instance stands out and is very personal for me. I grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia and earned my PhD from Virginia Tech. My father was on the faculty at Virginia Tech for 40 years. On that awful day, a lone gunman shot 48 people, killing 32.

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