Professor Jennifer Todd:

The shared island unit, if I understand it correctly, started off really quite small. It still is, although it has expanded a bit. It does not really do informal, grassroots discussion and the question is whether it can, perhaps in the future, be expanded more as an all-island body to look at research from the bottom up as well as set piece discussions and so on. I do not know if that is politically possible or not. It strikes me as one way forward, but it is only one. Other colleagues have suggested other ways forward. South Korea has a ministry for reunification. I am not sure that is necessarily the best way forward. An expanded shared island unit that is opened up to allow it to deal with constitutional as well as socioeconomic issues could be one vehicle that already exists and that could be expanded.