ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the few analytical principles of human security and how they apply to human trafficking. The traditional security paradigm refers to a realist construct of security that grew out of the Cold-War era. While realism reigns in security studies, non-traditional security frameworks, specifically human security, has gained traction among many international affairs programs, scholars, and practitioners. In 1992 UN Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Ghali and expert practitioners called for the development and use of a "bottom up" type security framework that would better address severe, pervasive, and chronic threats from armed conflict to socio-economic issues through a multi-dimensional and collaborative approach. When the US government enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) in 2000, many human rights activists and human security practitioners viewed it as indicative that the government turned towards and possibly even embraced a human security approach to human trafficking.
