The Centre for Millennial Studies is obviously not only interested in doomsdaying, but even more so in positive visions of the future. Not that picturers of doom are only talking about gloom. They are ususually not forecasters of an End pure and simple: that would more teleology than millennialism.They are looking to an ultimate redemption and perfection.
Admittedly, however, a special kind of negativity hangs around most active millenarists - that of hoping for the elimination of the enemies of the divine, and who the enemies are identified to be can reflect a real pettiness of mind and meanness of spirit! (which an outside observer will have to discern and evaluate for what it is, yet understand how it might come about - sometimes quite logically).
On the other side, the years 2000-1 provide the opportunity to rethink what we are doing in purely or more terrestrial terms. The years may retain a residium of sacredness (because they bear the shadow of the Jesus event), but it might seem meer superstition to dwell on the calendrical years as such, as if they automatically signify happenings beyond our control - which we should just "wait out." It makes more sense to refer to the Occasion of the calendrical Millennium to do some rethinking about the betterment of the world. Hence, for example, the Catholic Church's proclamation of a special Jubilee Year, which among other things encourages rich nations to cancel debts to the Third World/Two-Thirds World.
Hence also some interest by the Australian government and people to celebrate Federation, but in ways that solve rather than exacerbate national rifts.
Grassroots radicals, as we know from the press, have been currently very strong and vocal about the problems of the world system, and it is no coincidence that they are making so much noise on a millennial cusp. Their activities are symptomatic of an underlying longing across the world to break the chains of insidious forces that bind whole nations into an unnecessary servitude and prop up governments that are irresponsible towards their citizens, environments, and wider parts of the earth.
The Centre for Millennial Studies is interested in visions for the future of any and every kind, and has an even greater interest in posting those of a political realist kind or of an inspirational (even utopic) type than those peddling despair.