Sinclair Dinnen
Bio
Dr Sinclair Dinnen is a lawyer and sociologist and is currently a Senior Fellow with the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.
He formerly taught law at the University of Papua New Guinea and was Head of the Crime Studies Department at the PNG National Research Institute. He has undertaken extensive research and policy work in the Melanesian countries particularly in the areas of conflict, law and justice reform and peacemaking. His research interests include conflict studies; cultural criminology; legal pluralism; restorative justice; as well as the challenges of building state and nation in socially fragmented post-conflict societies. He is currently a co-chief investigator on a 3-year Australian Research Council Linkage Project - "Policing the Neighbourhood" - which examines the peacekeeping and policebuilding roles of Australian police in three international missions - Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.
Publications
- Law and Order in a Weak State - Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea / (University of Hawai'i Press, 2001).
- Reflections on Violence in Melanesia (edited with Allison Ley, Hawkins Press and Asia Pacific Press, 2000).
- A Kind of Mending - Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands (edited with Anita Jowett and Tess Newton, Pandanus Books, 2003).
- Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands (edited with Stewart Firth, ANU E Press and
Asia Pacific Press, 2008).
- 'State-Building in a Post-Colonial Society: The Case of Solomon Islands'. Chicago - Journal of International Law, Vol.9, No. 1, Summer 2008. 51-78.
- (with Andrew Goldsmith) 'Transnational Police Building: critical lessons from Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands'. Third World Quarterly, Vol.28, No.6, 2007, 1091-1109.
Contact
Dr. Sinclair Dinnen
Senior Fellow
State Society and Governance in Melanesia
College of Asia and the Pacific
Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 2612