James P. Grant

As UNICEF's executive director, Grant helped turn childhood vaccination into a reason for opposing sides in El Salvador to stop fighting temporarily. Discussions with President José Napoleón Duarte helped lead to the 1985 'days of tranquillity'. Church intermediaries, health workers and local organisers made the pauses usable. The lesson is the narrow, practical bargain: an immunisation window could be secured without first settling the civil war.