From: Boris Nikolic To: "Jeffrey Epstein ([email protected])" <[email protected]> Subject: vaccination as a mediator of Peace Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:49:39 +0000 http://www.unicef.org/sowc96/14zones.htrn httpay.paho.org&iglish/dd/pin/Number22 article2d.htm Please see above in the link few of examples in which vaccination was used to cease the fight and (at least ) temporary introduction of peace. UNICEF, too, has since 1946 frequently used its focus on children as a means of working on both sides in civil wars-as it did in the 1960s in Biafra, and later in the 1970s in what was then Kampuchea. However, it was not until the 1980s that the idea emerged of children as a 'conflict-free zone'—that children should be protected from harm and provided with the essential services to ensure their survival and well-being. That concept was first formulated in 1983 by Nils Thedin of Sweden in a proposal to UNICEF. If ever an idea seemed quixotic, this was it. To expect the perpetrators of some of the most sadistic actions to stop and think about children initially made little sense. Until it was tried. Since Nils Thedin's proposal, a half- dozen corridors of peace, days of tranquillity, bubbles of peace—different names for the same phenomenon— have actually been negotiated in the midst of a number of bloody conflicts. The first occasion was in El Salvador in 1985. After much negotiation with the Government and the rebels, there was finally agreement that the carnage should stop for three 'days of tranquillity'. On three days in consecutive months, the Salvadorian conflict gave way to a campaign in which as many as 20,000 health workers immunized 250,000 small children against polio, measles, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. This process was repeated every year until the end of the war six years later. Similar principles have been applied in other disputes. In 1986, in the war between the Ugandan Government and the National Resistance Army