Additional panel will round out experience for students

A third panel added to the schedule for the “Common Ground for Peace” event will showcase previously overshadowed voices.

This panel, “The Past is Not the Past: The Continuing Quest for Racial Justice and Peace,” was not announced or promoted well, which may hinder attendance. Tickets are not necessary for this panel and there is no information on the One World website as to whether the panel will be live streamed or not like the first two. It implies this panel was an afterthought or pulled together quickly.

The Dalai Lama will also not sit in on this panel, which may mean many students will not go, since the Dalai Lama is the highlight of the two-day event. Instead, the panel will include human rights activist Martin Luther King III, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and three Syracuse University professors.

Since the two Monday panels featured and focused heavily on the Dalai Lama, this panel gives King and Young more time to share their thoughts and ideas in a more intimate setting with a smaller group of students. All of the “Common Ground for Peace” panelists are very high-profile, well-rounded individuals, so allowing more time for them to share their thoughts and expertise will enhance the experience for students.

The panel is being held in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III, a venue five times smaller than Goldstein Auditorium, where Monday’s panels were held. The smaller venue will provide a much more intimate setting for those who ultimately chose to go.