Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Ending Slavery: Strategies for Contemporary Global Abolition
This course explored strategies for ending contemporary global slavery at the international, national and local levels.
4 weeks, 5 hours per week
Professor Zoe Trodd
Co-director of the Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice
The University of Nottingham
Kevin Bales
Professor of Contemporary Slavery
The University of Nottingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Investigate slavery throughout history and in today’s world
- Assess the strategies of past antislavery movements
- Explore ideas for ending contemporary slavery at the international, national and local levels
- Engage with new antislavery solutions to help design a new blueprint for ending slavery
Syllabus
- Key facts, figures, definitions, causes and predictors for contemporary slavery
- The similarities and differences between historical and contemporary slavery
- Potential strategies that contemporary antislavery might adapt from historical antislavery
- The strategies of past antislavery movements at the international, national and local levels
- Ideas for how businesses and industry-wide initiatives can combat slavery
- Ideas for how we can use technology like satellites to combat slavery
- The connection between ending slavery and combating environmental destruction
- The role of legislation and country-level plans in combatting slavery today
- The strategy of community-based liberation and individual action
- The antislavery ideas of enslaved people themselves via their narratives
Issued on 11th November 2016
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