Introduction : a retrospective on diversity commissions : from set-up and working methods to impacting policy / Katayoun Alidadi and Marie-Claire Foblets -- Pointing to a multicultural future : rethinking race, ethnicity, religion and britishness / Tariq Modood -- National identities and the "Parekh report" / Varun Uberoi -- British multiculturalism : from "Parekh" to "PREVENT", and beyond / Ralph Grillo -- Religion, belief and diversity in transition : the commission on religion and belief in British public life / Maleiha Malik -- Laicité is a most liberal legal frame : reflections on the work on of the Stasi commission / Patrick Weil -- Retrospective on the French Stasi Commission / Jean Baubérot and John R. Bowen -- Theoretical perspectives of cultural and religious diversity in two national reports / Karel J. Leyva -- The bouchard-taylor commission and beyond : cultural and religious diversity in Quebec / Jocelyn Maclure and Sébastien Lacroix -- Cohesive fear : a comment on Maclure and Lacroix / Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens -- The round tables on interculturalism : a successful or unsuccessful experiment in deliberative democracy? / Marie-Claire Foblets -- Religious and cultural diversity in Belgium : finding the common denominator / Patrick Charlier and Nathalie Denies -- "Making a difference" : dialogue and compromise in the Belgian federal round tables of interculturalism / Nadia Fadil -- Religion in the retreat of multiculturalism / Christian Joppke -- Religion, culture and liberal democracy : the issue of majority cultural precedence / Geoffrey Brahm Levey -- The European Court of Human Rights : fundamental assumptions that have a chilling effect on the protection of religious diversity / Eugenia Relaño Pastor -- Charting perspectives, positions and recommendations in four commission reports : reasonable accommodation for religion or belief as barometer / Katayoun Alidadi