Is Foreign Military Intervention Disadvantageous? : Assessing the Relationship between Peacekeeping Forces and Sex Trafficking in Conflict Zones in West Africa

This is an excerpt from a dissertation titled ‘Is Foreign Military Intervention Disadvantageous? : Assessing the Relationship between Peacekeeping Forces and Sex Trafficking in Conflict Zones in West Africa’. It explores and establishes, through secondary research, the connection of the introduction of peace keeping forces in a conflict zone to the phenomenon of sex trafficking. It comprehensively investigates and illustrates the common dimensions used in the study of trafficking of persons by looking at the economic dimension of sex trafficking in conflict zones, the gender based approach to sex trafficking and exploitation during armed conflict and the lack or inability to effectively police the crime in a region like West Africa.