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Sustainability of the Project
The organizers believe that further discussion on the topic is warranted.
- A faculty panel will address the critical issues in the evaluation of religious tolerance/pluralism in America. Additionally, faculty will provide information on the changing demographics in the United States and the challenges posed by Post 9-11 laws and climate with respect to democratic traditions and way of life.
- A student panel will address religious pluralism from the stand point of individuals who are attempting to negotiate their faiths with other faith communities.
- The organizers will sponsor a viewing and discussion of the film, “Acting on Faith: Women’s New Religious Activism in America”, during Women’s History Month.
- The Globalization Forum should become part of Longwood University’s activities and should lead to the creation of an institute on globalization in two to five years’ time.
- Initially, the forum should lead to the proposal for some concrete “action” that would involve education, economic development, and political activism.
This initially modest effort could then generate the kind of enthusiasm that will involve the whole university, and maybe even the Farmville/Prince Edward Communities. As the Columbia University globalization manifesto says, “It is not an exaggeration to say that we are entering an era that will be defined by a significant increase in the degree to which collectively we take the events and concerns of the world as the subject matter of our intellectual focus and the world populations as the pool from which we create our academic community.”
