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 | | All 37 current armed conflicts must thus be regarded as intrastate or civil wars (the fighting is internal to a single state, although often with significant international and regional implications). |
 | | Additional categories of international war would include border disputes, foreign invasion and other cross-border attacks, but currently, as noted in our 1997 report, due in significant measure to a robust array of institutions and conventions for responding to international tensions and disputes, there are no such international wars to categorize. |
 | | An armed conflict is added to the annual list of current armed conflicts in the year in which the death toll reaches the threshold of 1,000, but the starting date of the armed conflict is shown as the year in which the first combat deaths included in the count of 1,000 or more occurred. |
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