The UN task force engages with government forces and rebel groups to develop action plans to end and prevent these violations from taking place.
A central part of being a rebel is to develop views that go against popular, traditional views.
Carol Bellamy, the executive director of Unicef, said after a three-day visit that the rebel group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, had not made any concrete progress on a plan to stop recruiting children, which the rebels had agreed to develop after December peace talks.
Prof. Andre Thomashausen, the director of foreign and comparative law at the University of South Africa and an expert on rebel movements in the region, said the rebels must be allowed to develop their political potential.
When state officials unveiled a plan in 1997 to expand the expressway's entry ramps, easing truck traffic to the city's commercial food markets, the community rebelled, and Pratt began to develop a counterplan that would dismantle the expressway altogether and free up 28 acres of land.
The danger, they said, is that this could accelerate a trend in which outside powers arm and fund preferred militants in Syria, creating client militias beholden to their patrons and undercutting efforts to develop a unified rebel front.
He was one of a number of academic lawyers who rebelled against their initial legal education and sought to develop alternatives.
A fascination with Marlowe's "viscerally arresting" verse rather than his rebel-without-a-cause persona motivated Mr. Herskovits to develop Target Margin's current program, he said.
Mr Pinzon said he would seek to develop new strategies to confront the rebel groups, making greater use of technology.
There have also been revelations about the CIA's failure to develop a reliable proxy force among the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad.
