Rioting has been rocking the northern half of Mitrovica, the Republic of Kosovo’s most divided town. The River Ibar is the demarcation line over which an architecturally charming bridge cloaked in barbed wire acts as the rather poor symbol of relations between the two communities. In fact it is a fitting symbol, the beautiful facade nothing more than a showpiece since the bridge is rarely used by the majority of locals who keep to their own river bank and the barbed wire reminding everyone of both the security presence which is necessary as well as the potential for conflict were these outsiders not there.