Brčko is likely to remain a one-off, but its postwar history can teach us about the viability of "shared" cities in countries riven by ethnic conflict.
The strongest criticisms by inspectors were aimed at Oldknow, where they found evidence that the primary school was riven with "split loyalties and allegiances" among staff.
The Alan Parsons Project's Pyramid (1978) was fronted by portrait of a solitary figure in a hotel bedroom, riven with a huge abstract, blue blob of interference, as near to an approximation of a migraine as any visual artist has probably ever managed.
Transporting heavy building materials across dirt streets riven with gullies and piled high with detritus is not easy, and theft of building materials is commonplace in Kibera.
The UKIP has been riven with dissent since last October's annual conference when its entire national executive committee was urged to resign, but refused.
The 50 best restaurants are chosen by a panel of 1,000 chefs, food writers and gastronomes, but Reyners says the voting process is riven with "conflicts of interest" and "cronyism" – "fishy" is the word she inevitably uses to sum it up.
The author of Ukip's general election manifesto has said the party should concentrate on "compassionate, centre-ground" policies, denying the party was riven with bitter infighting.
Georgia has had a turbulent post-Soviet experience, to put it mildly, beset by separatist conflicts in two territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and riven by a civil war that left the centre of the capital, Tbilisi, in ruins.
"Yet the Labour party in its present form, infiltrated by extremists, riven with factions, still stands upon the stage as the [principal] alternative to the Conservative party in governing Britain.
You'd think that for a such a lachrymose man, riven by longstanding doubts, his adopted home would be an ideal refuge.
The coalition is riven by ideological splits and statehouse squabbles and Mr Anwar's legal troubles have unsettled it further.
