Yet as the International Crisis Group (ICG) shows in a recent briefing, the situation is much more fluid and unpredictable than that tag might suggest.Skirmishes between the two sides are frequent, with hundreds, even thousands of ceasefire violations reported every month.
Bangkok's streets become less clogged as city dwellers head for the beaches.It might seem an odd moment, then, for the International Crisis Group (ICG) to release a sobering report on Thailand's polarised politics.
A report on North Korea's missile programmes by the International Crisis Group (ICG) suggests the country has developed the means to shrink a bomb sufficiently to stick onto the tip of the Rodong missile, North Korea's version of the Scud.
If Khartoum co-operates with the UN, a settlement for the whole country could be secured by the end the year, the ICG predicted.
More recently, Mr Ivanishvili said that Georgia is ready to help Russia to ensure that the games take place peacefully.Improved ties between Tbilisi and Moscow open up the possibility of progress on Abkhazia, according to a recent report by the International Crisis Group (ICG).
There are now a handful of publicly traded venturing businesses, including Softbank, CMGI, Safeguard Scientific and Internet Capital Group (ICG).
Indeed, having a head office in the heartland of the European Union has not so far been all that much of an asset to the ICG at all.
In another sign of Indonesia's openness, the authorities gave an independent think-tank, the International Crisis Group (ICG), enough access to make a broad evaluation of their scheme.The ICG's report, in late November, was fairly positive, though it expressed some serious worries.
"The country needs a better future than a stunted economy and dead-end conflicts with its neighbours", the ICG concludes.That is putting it mildly.
Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, a Caucasus expert at International Crisis Group (ICG), a think-tank, says the latest attacks illustrate a new trend in the way the terrorists operate.
Senior army commanders deny they will stage a coup and dismiss the idea that they want the king to appoint a prime minister.Assuming elections do happen, ICG recommends that political parties sign up to an electoral code of conduct.
