For those who’ve covered developments in Northern Ireland over the past few years, the prospect of 
hardline Protestant cleric Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness sitting side by side and even cracking jokes together must once have seemed about as likely as Elvis being found alive or - as a UK tabloid newspaper once claimed - a Second World War bomber being discovered on the moon.
Does the sight of these two one-time arch-foes making political progress together, as former enemies have also done in South Africa, give any hope for similar developments in other world trouble spots? Who are the other former sworn enemies most likely to follow suit?
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