Preface : the benefit of analysing national public commissions on diversity for research and policy making / Solange Lefebvre and Patrice Brodeur -- Introduction : national commissions on diversity : when reflective processes happen in parallel within several nation-states / Solange Lefebvre -- National commissions on collective identity and diversity : Britain, France, Quebec, and Belgium / Solange Lefebvre -- "Stories are the secret reservoirs of values" : personal recollections of two commissions in the United Kingdom / Robin Richardson -- Assumptions of power subverted : media and emotions in the wake of the Parekh report / Sarah Neal and Eugene McLaughlin -- From the Stasi (2003) to the Machelon Commission (2006) : the use of commissions in religious regulation in France / Pierre-Henri Prélot -- The outcome of the Stasi report in France : much ado about nothing? / Anne Fornerod -- The Bouchard-Taylor Commission in Quebec and reasonable accommodations : collective creation and multilevel reception / Solange Lefebvre -- Debating intercultural integration in Belgium : from the Commission for Intercultural Dialogue to the round tables on interculturalism / Karel J. Leyva and Léopold Vanbellingen -- The commissions : caught between media simplifications and political interests / Solange Lefebvre, Giomny H. Ruiz, Karel J. Leyva, Mathilde Vanasse-Pelletier -- Control, instrumentalization and co-operation : the relation between law and religion in four national contexts / Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens and Bertrand Lavoie -- Glocalizations of a common discourse : the United Kingdom and Quebec compared in the context of four national commissions on diversity / Peter Beyer and Marie-Ève Larivière -- The altar of victory and the crucifix : a tale of two controversial symbols / Lori G. Beaman and Marie-Claude l'Archer -- A coherent public policy on religion in Norway? : an analysis of the 2013 report "A society open to religious and worldview diversity" / Ingunn Folkestad Breistein and Inger Furseth -- A national enquiry into freedom of religion and belief in Australia / Gary D. Bouma -- Public-policy discourses on selected significant issues of cultural and religious diversity in Singapore / Lai Ah-Eng -- The religious diversity "conundrum" in Morocco : the case of the National Commission for Dialogue on Civil Society and New Constitutional Prerogatives (2012) / Mohamed Fadil -- General conclusion / Patrice Brodeur