Center on Religion, Culture and Conflict
Drew University’s Center on Religion, Culture & Conflict (CRCC) focuses critical attention on the complex ways in which people from different cultural, ethnic and religion traditions interact, and how both difference and similarity can serve as a resource for building peace. Our mission is to educate a next generation of leaders in interfaith and intercultural understanding and peace. Learn more about us.
Drew University Jewish-Black Inter-Action Initiative
This pilot initiative, generously supported by the Russell Berrie Foundation, aims to facilitate interfaith and interracial relations among Jewish and Black youth in northern New Jersey, with the goal of building a core team of youth leaders who can expand this work into the greater community.
This year, Arts of Respect (AOR) is once again hosting an arts festival and competition in the visual, literary, and performing arts for New Jersey high…
Drew Action Scholars is a two-year program with a four-year scholarship, guided by a distinctive, results- and action-oriented approach to real-world problem-solving.
Develop international and intercultural perspectives and skills needed to succeed in our global cultures and economies, and to change the world for the better.
Promoting greater understanding and respect using the arts since 2009.
Credit: Diana Candelejo
Unspoken Words, Unheard Voices (detail)
The Drew University Center on Religion, Culture and Conflict was pleased to host the fall 2021 NJ Interfaith Campus-Community Initiatives (virtual), engaging students from institutions of higher education across New Jersey.Keynote Speaker Elise Boddie. Rutgers Univeristy Professor of Law, Henry Rutgers Professor, Robert L. Carter Scholar. Learn more about Professor Boddie here.
Our goal with our upcoming October gathering was to bring students together online to discuss priorities for change they would like to see on their New Jersey campuses and in their communities.
In workshops and breakout-sessions, students learned from experienced educators, leaders, and organizers about ways to put these priorities into action. The NJ Interfaith Campus-Community Initiatives connected students and academics with activists and practitioners from institutions around our state. Read more about the event.
Co-sponsored by the Drew Religious Life Council and Office of the University Chaplain.
Friday, October 29, 2021.
Religious Activism for Peace and Justice
Tuesday, November 9th from 1:15 – 2:45 pm
Join Jonathan Golden in conversation with authors Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby.
CRCC New Neighbor School Success Service Project Continues Relationship with the International Rescue Committee.Drew students deliver online tutoring for refugees with the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Drew’s Community Based Learning (CBL) course is designed to allow students to apply academic learning with off-campus community work. Read a recent interview with undergraduate student tutors here.
Help CRCC fill their backpacks! Your $36 donation purchases a backpack filled with school supplies for one child.
Donate here, and specify “CRCC New Neighbors.”
“It is with great sadness that I am writing to share the news that Dr. Shirley Sugerman Rosenberg G’70, passed away on Monday, November 23. She was 101.
“Shirley was a graduate of the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, trustee emerita, and founder of the Shirley Sugerman Interfaith Forum, which brought speakers such as Nicholas Kristof (see photo below), Eboo Patel, Susannah Heschel, and many more to Drew.
“In 2016, the Drew Center on Religion, Culture and Conflict honored Sugerman with the Honorary Peacebuilder Award for her dedication to peacebuilding and for her work to end conflict and build bridges between peoples. It is truly remarkable that Shirley had the vision to create such a forum 30 years ago.” – Jonathan Golden, CRCC Director.
Read additional tributes to Dr. Sugerman in Drew Today.
Religion, Culture and COVID-19
In this edition of Reflections, Jonathan Golden, Director of Drew University’s Center on Religion, Culture and Conflict, addresses the implications of alarming trends to “point fingers” and assign blame for our current pandemic. His latest book project, Turning Point, is based on interviews with victims/survivors and ex-combatants of ethno-religious conflict.
