ed 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 pr

ution, it did so in tepid terms compared to its treatment of Israel. The General Assembly simply noted “with great concern that the armed conflict in Kampuchea [Cambodia] and is seriously threatening the peace and stability of South-East Asia.” In contrast, a resolution passed that same year “deplores the co