Russell Berrie Alumni Grant Program Winners 2016-2017
The goal of this initiative is to foster outstanding, innovative, creative, high quality interreligious dialogue (IRD) and interfaith action projects, academic research, and other activities by alumni that will have a positive impact on improving interreligious understanding in their own communities, and in the field overall.
The winners of the Rusell Berrie Alumni Grant Program 2016 are:
Paola Bernardini (Cohort II, Italy): " Academic Seminar on Pluralism and
Interfaith Coexistence in North America: Lessons to Learn."
The aim of this seminar is to offer an introduction on the conditions and implications of the North American tradition of pluralism for interfaith coexistence.
Allyson's initiative will bring Jewish, Muslim and Christian youth together to explore significant historical and religious sites in Jerusalem with a view of learning from each other.
Elena Dini and Elena Tadiello (Cohort VII, Italy): "How
to teach about religious and cultural diversity." The project
will offer school teachers of Catholic religion and youth educatorsin Rome tools to teach students and youngsters about religious and cultural diversity.
Lidiia Batig (Cohort VIII, Ukraine): "School of Inter-Religious Journalism." The initiative consists of 12 lectures (a mini-course in training style) offered for religious journalists and young professionals writing on religious themes in Ukraine;
"Multifaith Media Project." Lidiia will record a series of interviews (video + printed version) with religious leaders from different faiths (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism) in Ukraine. The interviews will be about pluralism, leadership, coexistence and interreligious dialogue. They will be published as well as made available online on various religious and interreligious web-resources in Ukraine.
