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).
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.
They can hire a larger professional staff: ICG has 25 in-house executive recruiters, to hire managers for the firms in which it invests.
"Burkina Faso is landlocked and impoverished, so he had an eye to make money… through diamonds and so on," says Richard Moncrieff of the International Crisis Group (ICG), which tries to solve conflicts.
Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, a Caucasus expert at ICG, notes that unlike previous suicide bombings, which were carried out by Chechen women seeking to avenge their killed relatives, the recent attacks are the work of ideologically motivated jihadists—some of them ethnic-Russian men who are harder to identify and detect than women in headscarves.
