Abstract: Taylor delivers a sustained critique of the consociational institutions in Northern Ireland's Agreement from an integrationist (social transformationist) perspective. He argues that a stable peace requires the rejection of the top-down approach taken in the Agreement and, instead, the construction from the bottom-up of a common society through integrated schools, residences, and workplaces, and through the organization of groups in civil society that are dedicated to eroding ethno-national divisions. He favours a ‘non-sectarian democratic society in a united ‘New Ireland’.

Keywords: Agreement, civil society, consociation, democracy, institutions, integration, non-sectarianism, Northern Ireland, social transformation,