This book is about those people in institutions of civil society in Ireland who work for a new and peaceful future in Northern Ireland. One feature of the book is that it begins with an orientation about the discussions among scholars and activists about "forgiveness, " "history and memory, " and "reconciliation." With that context made, the book delineates and explicates the work of the various organizations that are on the forefront of creating a new future, which will supplant the past that brought "the Troubles" to Northern Ireland.