Edited sentence: Amnesty International.As a matter of fact, defining the concept is not as easy as it might appear.As a result, all the organisations involved in war/peace matters give different lists of ongoing conflicts.BBC News.BIPPI - B's Independent Pro-Peace Initiative.For example, the word terrorism is used indifferently by many governments to delegitimate every kind of armed revolt and, at the same time, by many rebel groups to delegitimate the armed repression of sovereign governments.GEES - Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos.Global Security.HIIK - Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research.HRW - Human Rights Watch.Here is a fundamental list of NGOs and groups in whose websites we can find deep information on ongoing armed conflicts.ICG - International Crisis Group.ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross.IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Networks.Le Monde Diplomatique.Many NGOs and independent groups attempt to monitor the situation of ongoing conflicts.Moreover, the increasing frequency of asymmetric warfare or guerrilla makes no one, single characteristic useful to distinguish official war from official peace.Project Ploughshares.UNPO - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization.USIP - United States Institute of Peace.Unfortunately, the definitions of war, conflict, armed struggle, revolution and all these words which describe violent opposition between States or armed organised groups, are not precise enough to distinguish one from another.Until WWII society simply defined "war" as a state when an official declaration of war exists, but countries have existed in states of declared war against each other without any actual conflict occurring and, conversely, such wars like Vietnam or Korea never were officially declared