This book brings together a number of intersecting themes concerning consociationalism as a means of sharing power and building effective political institutions within deeply divided societies.

Feargal Cochrane is Professor of International Conflict Analysis and the Director of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC), University of Kent, UK. He is author of nine books including Northern Ireland: The Reluctant Peace (2013).

Neophytos Loizides is Professor in International Conflict Analysis, University of Kent, UK, and author of Designing Peace: Cyprus and Institutional Innovations in Divided Societies (2016).

Thibaud Bodson is a PhD candidate in the Human Rights Under Pressure Joint Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Introduction 1. Devolution and Powersharing in Northern Ireland 2. 'Living Consociationalism' in the Brussels Capital Region 3. A Federal Cyprus? 'Integrating Alternative Power-Sharing Models Conclusion