This book examines the possibilities and realities of promoting citizenship, peace, and reconciliation through schooling in divided and post-conflict societies.

Elizabeth Anderson Worden is Associate Professor of Education at American University in Washington, DC, and a visiting professor at Ulster University, Northern Ireland. She is the author of National Identity and Education Reform: Contested Classrooms.

1. Introduction 2. Teaching Citizenship: A Meta-Conversation 3. Northern Ireland Histories 4. "Tinkering around the Edges": Northern Ireland's Education System and Peacebuilding during the Troubles 5. Creating Educational Change in the Post-Good Friday Era 6. Citizenship in the Classroom: The Elusive Implementation of the Post-Good Friday Reforms 7. Lessons for Northern Ireland and Other Divided Societies