The Missing Link in Combating Human Trafficking by Dr. David Rubens

What the battle against human trafficking needs is more input from academia. That's the highly informed view of Dr. David Rubens, executive director of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM) in London, whose vision for solving complex world problems such as human trafficking involves bridging the gap between the academic world and the political world.

 

KEY POINTS:

  • Sex trafficking is a highly lucrative crime—one girl can bring a trafficker a quarter of a million dollars a year.
  • Politicians may want to combat human trafficking but often don’t know how.
  • Academics have wide-ranging knowledge on how to combat trafficking, but aren’t in a position to implement what they know.

 

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