Many people were expecting (that) the peace talks would break down.

许多人预料和平谈判会破裂。

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Apart from that, my first break was writing my book about my experience in the Peace Corps.

如果不算这些，我的第一个突破应该是写书，那本关于和平队经历的书。

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This can be done by getting a reasonable number of conflicting parties to sign up to a peace deal or otherwise break with the recent past, as Ghana did in 2003.

人们可以通过令数量适中的冲突参与方在和平协定上签字，或者如加纳在2003年那样卸下近期的历史包袱，从而恢复信心。

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They believe that many unionists have never had any intention of sharing power, and are using decommissioning either to break the peace deal, or to emasculate the republican movement.

ECONOMIST: Down to the wire

All of this may never happen: as ministers have been queuing up to point out, peace may yet break out.

ECONOMIST: Britain sends in the Rats

There they will discuss ways to break the deadlock in the peace process which has stalled since the political institutions were suspended last month over the decommissioning issue.

BBC: Decommissioning 'won't go away'