Kerjasama Pemerintah Republik Afrika Tengah dan UNICEF dalam Menangani Kasus Perekrutan Tentara Anak di Republik Afrika Tengah

Abstract

Continous humanitarian crisises in the Central African Republic are instigated by the
armed conflicts involving underage combatants also known as child soldiers. Set
against this phenomenon, the Goverment of Central African Republic is trying to
overcome the issue by initiating collaboration with UNICEF, hoping to put an end to
the use and recruitment of said underage soldier operating and fighting throughout the
territory of the Central African Republic. The objective of this research is to analyze
the existing collaboration between the Republic of Central Africa and UNICEF by
firstly, describing the conflict in the Central African Republic and then followed by
tabling the factors that enable the recruitment of the children of the war, and as well
providing anlayses on the UNICEF’s role in hattling the case of child soldier
recruitment and the obstacles that the organization has to endure from its attempt of
doing so in the region of Central African Republic. This research employs qualitative
method by collecting data from books, NGO’s reports, and mass media. The
explanation about the collaboration between UNICEF and the Central African
Republic is given by utilizing the standpoint of Liberalism together with the
perspectives of the concepts of Cooperation and International Organization,
respectively. This research concludes that the presence of a number of obstacles in the
collaborative work between UNICEF and the Goverment of Central African Republic
has been the primary reason that made the collaboration between the two actors,
arguably, has not been entirely and fully succesful.