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.
One dozen NJ campus communities gathered on Friday, April 9 2021 to discuss priorities for change we would like to see in our communities and on our New Jersey campuses.
Open to undergraduate and graduate students attending New Jersey colleges and universities – staff, faculty, and clergy – attendees at the 2021 Interfaith Student Summit learned from experienced leaders about ways to put these priorities into action while interacting with peers from institutions around our state.
Methods and materials developed by our partner, the Interfaith Youth Core.
In Conversation
The Civil Rights Era is remembered as a time when Jewish and Black leaders worked together for social justice and equality. These partnerships have continued all along, and in fact have taken on new urgency in our current environment. Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz and Imam Wahy-ud Deen Shareef are exemplars of this alliance, working together as partners in the fight for justice and equality today. The Rabbi and Imam shared their stories of friendship and hope.
Learn more about our Panelists here.
Sponsored by The Center on Religion, Culture and Conflict, BSU, Hillel, Diversity and Inclusion, Russell Berrie Foundation, and Student Activities.
“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.
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)
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What are some of the risks involved in how we talk about and react to the pandemic, and how can we ensure that we don’t let the search for answers and explanations lead us to bigotry and xenophobia?
Conflict is endemic to classrooms and campuses across America. This workshop-style webinar addressed the range of challenges encountered in schools 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.
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.”
Five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Izzeldin Abuelaish leads the Sugerman Forum 2020. An internationally recognized human rights and inspirational peace activist, Palestinian medical doctor Dr. Abuelaish is currently Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He advances educational opportunities for women and girls with his organization, the Daughters for Life Foundation.
Learn more here.
Event Co-Sponsors
The Shirley Sugerman Interfaith Forum, Center on Religion, Culture and Conflict
The Marjorie M. and Irwin Nat Pincus Fund Lecture Series, Drew University Hillel
