ICRIDEV exists as a professional Centre to foster social transformation through knowledge building, interreligious strengthening, and development interventions.
ICRIDEV is a brain child of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Kumba, operating within the mission of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon. Created in 2018 and renamed in 2022, it works as an autonomous unit on the principle of empowering people to live in harmony for holistic development.
The Centre holds that no one religion can claim all of the truth — each has a responsibility to share its truth for the interdependence of truth among all religions, while maintaining its own identity.
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The Research Unit runs academic programmes on contemporary issues and builds ICRIDEV into a repository of knowledge for Africa.
Learn more →The Centre works to improve relations between religions, to encourage dialogue between people in conflict, and to counteract discrimination and prevent further conflict — including through proposals for religious reconciliation.
Learn more →In line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union Agenda 2063, the Development Unit maintains a constant and sustainable engagement with society through training and humanitarian intervention.
Learn more →ICRIDEV, as a global reference institution, empowers citizens to live in harmony for holistic and sustainable development through excellent research, inter-religious dialogue, building of capacities and professionalism.
Promotes religious pluralism, religious co-existence and multi-pluralism in an increasingly fragmented world, in the spirit of ecumenism.
Expands knowledge through research and publishing, and by offering certification courses in professional studies — peace studies, humanitarian studies, domestic violence, community development, development studies, leadership, diaconal studies, inter-religious and inter-cultural studies, and human, women and child rights issues in development.
Promotes sustainable community development through its social action.