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Self-determination conflicts remain an important source of violence in the new century. As a consequence of the conflict in Darfur, approximately 2.4 million people have fled across the borders into neighboring states or have been displaced internally, while hundreds of thousands have been wounded or killed in the fighting. Groups seeking to invoke their right to self-determination may vary in their grievances, but they share a few common properties that distinguish them from other mobilized ethnic groups. Groups seeking self-determination are more likely to have support from external states than are groups having other goals. A common thread among self-determination movements is the desire to have control over territory. Prior to the 1990s, most civil wars ended by military victory. Between 1940 and 1990, two-thirds to all of the civil wars in those decades ended in victory for one side.