Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict [SEP] inception
Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict
The Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) was introduced in July 2005 to recommend methods of protecting children impacted by armed conflicts.
Formation.
The CAAC came out of the 2005 Millennium Summit as a voice denouncing the use of children in armed conflicts. Children in many parts of the world are being forced to bear arms and wage war alongside adults. To address and counter this heinous practice, the Security Council decided to establish a working group to address
Children and Armed Conflict, which provides substantive inputs to the work of the Working Group and follows up on the agreed outcome of the Working Group. The Working Group produces conclusions and recommendations that have been developed among the fifteen members of the Working Group. Since its inception, there has been progress in this field that is of particular importance to the international community.
Programmes Negotiations.
Negotiation in the context of the United Nations Security Council tends to be intensive and time-consuming and may be trying for those who have little