Question

What are the consequences of attaching the Trafficking Protocol to the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime? What are the consequences of the traditional security approach’s overemphasis on targeting organized crime?

Answer 1

Trafficking of people still holds to be a prominent aspect of the crimes prevalent in different parts of the world. This includes Africa to a great extent. Although the issue has been on rise and the platform it has received has led to a greater degree of importance that it now receives, its true implementation has been questionable due to many variables influencing it. Many of the governments have effectively failed to address the other rampant issues that impact the implementation of this protocol. To put this into perspective, some examples are issues such as poverty, unemployment, corruption, gender discrimination and lack of global cooperation on different levels.

Consequences of the traditional security approach’s emphasis on targeting organized crime have been such that people involved in conducting crime scenes have been benefitted for various reasons. Prohibition from ownership of private weapons has made their game stronger. Organized crime therefore challenges the state’s monopoly on the use of force.Therefore to sum it up it can be concluded that enhancing human security – especially during times of fiscal austerity and budget cuts – will require a new degree of co-operation and understanding both between the branches of government and between governments.