This book analyses the role power sharing, social movements, economic regeneration, urban space, memorialisation and symbols play in transforming divided societies into shared peaceful ones. It explains why some projects are counterproductive while others assist peace-building.

JOHN NAGLE is Visiting Research Fellow at EXCEPS at the University of Exeter, UK. He has previously held research positions at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, UK, and at INCORE, the University of Ulster, UK. His previous publications includeMulticulturalism's Double Bind.

MARY ALICE C. CLANCY is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Her 2007 article examining the Bush administration's role in Northern Ireland has been featured in several newspapers and on the BBC.

List of Abbreviations Introduction: Shared Society or Benign Apartheid? Nostrums and Palliatives: Exploring a Shared Society Consociational Power Sharing Our City Also': Sharing Civic Space Unity Through Diversity: A Shared Civil Society Shared Rituals and Symbols Between Trauma and Melancholia: Shared Forms of Commemoration Neoliberalism and Shared Consumers Conclusion: The Narcissism of Minor Differences?