Associate Professor Sinclair Dinnen
LLB (Hons) (Strath), MA (Sheff), PhD (ANU)
Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
College of Asia & the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Comparative Government And Politics 160603
- Law And Society 180119
- Police Administration, Procedures And Practice 160205
- Legal Institutions (Incl. Courts And Justice Systems) 180120
- Public Policy 160510
- International Relations 160607
- Private Policing And Security Services 160206
- Other Law And Legal Studies 1899
- Criminology 1602
Research interests
Post-colonial state formation; plural policing; regulatory pluralism; law & justice reform; political ordering; development discourse and practice; crime; conflict; peacebuilding; nationbuilding.
Biography
Biographical Statement
Sinclair Dinnen has a background in socio-legal studies and completed his PhD at ANU in 1996. His doctoral research was undertaken in Papua New Guinea while he was a research fellow at the National Research Institute (1992-1995). This research was published as Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea (University of Hawai’i Press, 2001).
He has longstanding research interests in regulatory pluralism, comparative criminology, justice and policing, conflict and peacebuilding, post-colonial state formation and development studies. Sinclair has published in leading journals including Oceania, Contemporary Pacific, Third World Quarterly, Policing & Society, Conflict, Security & Development, International Peacekeeping, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Development and Change, and Third World Thematics, as well as book chapters , and has also co-edited seven books including, most recently, Hybridity on the Ground In Peacebuilding and Development (ANU Press, 2018).
Publications
- Dinnen, S 2020, 'Insecurity, policing and marketization: Papua New Guinea's changing security landscape', in Sara N Admin, Daniella Watson & Christian Girard (ed.), Mapping Security in the Pacific: A Focus on Context, Gender and Organisational Culture, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, Oxon, pp. 186-198.
- Forsyth, M, Dinnen, S & Hukula, F 2020, 'A Case for a Public Pacific Criminology?', in Kathryn Henne & Rita Shah (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies, Routledge, New York, pp. 163-178.
- Watson, D & Dinnen, S 2020, 'Contextualising policing in Melanesia: History, adaptation and adoption problematised', in Sara N Admin, Daniella Watson & Christian Girard (ed.), Mapping Security in the Pacific: A Focus on Context, Gender and Organisational Culture, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, Oxon, pp. 161-173.
- Walton, G & Dinnen, S 2019, 'The Pacific Islands: politics, organised crime and corruption', in Felia Allum and Stan Gilmour (ed.), Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, UK, pp. 418-435.
- Dinnen, S 2019, 'Security Governance in Melanesia: Police, prisons and crime', in Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason (ed.), The Melanesian World, Routledge, New York, pp. 269-284.
- Dinnen, S, Chevalier, C, Sloan, T et al 2019, 'Perceptions of Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands Post-RAMSI ', Department of Pacific Affairs, vol. 2019, no. 6.
- Dinnen, S & Watson, D 2019, 'Police Reform in a Post-Conflict Context: The Case of Solomon Islands', Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, vol. Online.
- Putt, J & Dinnen, S 2018, 'IB 2018/1: Serving in a Multinational Police Mission in Solomon Islands: New Zealand Perspectives'.
- Dinnen, S 2018, Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development, pp. online.
- Dinnen, S 2018, The RAMSI Legacy for Pacific Policing, pp. online.
- Dinnen, S & Allen, M 2018, 'Reflections on Hybridity as an Analytical Lens on State Formation: The Case of Solomon Islands', in Joanne Wallis, Lia Kent, Miranda Forsyth, Sinclair Dinnen and Srinjoy Bose (ed.), Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 129-144.
- Putt, J, Dinnen, S, Keen, M et al 2018, The RAMSI Legacy for Policing in the Pacific Region. Australian National University, Canberra.
- Wallis, J, Kent, L, Forsyth, M, Dinnen, S and Bose, S, eds, 2018, Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Kent, L, Bose, S, Wallis, J et al 2018, 'Introduction', in J Wallis, L Kent, M Forsyth, S Dinnen and S Bose (eds.), Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 1-20.
- Forsyth, M, Kent, L, Dinnen, S, Wallis J and Bose, S, 2017, 'Hybridity in peacebuilding and development: a critical approach', Third World Thematics, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 407-421.
- Dinnen, S 2017, 'Legal Pluralism', in Sharon Morley, Jo Turner, Karen Corteen, Paul Taylor (ed.), A Companion to State Power, Liberties & Rights, The Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 169-171pp.
- Allen, M, Dinnen, S, Keen, M et al 2017, New Pathways Across Old Terrain? SSGM Research on Resources, Conflict and Justice.
- Allen, M & Dinnen, S, eds, 2017, State-building and State Formation in the Western Pacific, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom.
- Putt, J, Dinnen, S, Keen, M et al 2017, IB2017/20 The RAMSI Legacy for Pacific Policing, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 1-2pp.
- Dinnen, S 2017, 'The inexorable rise of private security in Papua New Guinea', Development Bulletin (Canberra), vol. 78, pp. 63-66pp..
- Allen, M & Dinnen, S 2017, 'Is the 'hybrid turn' a 'spatial turn'? A geographical perspective on hybridity and state-formation in the Western Pacific', Third World Thematics, pp. 1-18.
- Dinnen, S 2017, Internal Security in Papua New Guinea: Trends and Prospects. Papua New Guinea: 7 Snapshots of a Nation. Sydney: Lowy Institute.
- Walton, G & Dinnen, S 2016, The dark side of economic globalisation: politics, organised crime and corruption in the Pacific. Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper 48.
- Dinnen, S & Walton, G 2016, IB2016/24 Politics, Organised Crime and Corruption in the Pacific, pp. 1-2pp.
- Dinnen, S 2016, 'Conference presentation - Changing Patterns of Security Governance - 13-15 Sept 2016', unknown, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- Dinnen, S 2016, 'Concept note - Scoping the Private Security Industry in the Pacific Islands Region - APR 2016'.
- Dinnen, S 2016, 'Concept note - Solomon Islands Police Capacity Building Activity - 31 MAR 2016'.
- Dinnen, S 2016, 'RAMSI Ten Years On: from Post-Conflict Stabilisation to Development in Solomon Islands?', in Brendan Howe and Boris Koch (ed.), Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific, Koninklijke Brill, The Netherlands, pp. 95-113pp..
- Corbett, J & Dinnen, S 2016, 'Examining recent shifts in Australia's foreign aid policy: new paradigm or more incremental change?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 87-103.
- Dinnen, S 2016, 'The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands - Achievements, Transitions and Prospects', in Andreas Holtz, Matthias Kowasch, Oliver Hasenkamp (ed.), A Region In Transition Politics and Power in the Pacific Islands Countries, universaar, Saarbrucken, pp. 551-572.
- Allen, M & Dinnen, S 2016, 'Beyond Life Support? Reflections on Solomon Islands after the Regional Assistance Mission', Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 3-12.
- Dinnen, S & Allen, M 2015, 'State Absence and State Formation in Solomon Islands: Reflections on Agency, Scale and Hybridity', Development and Change, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. -.
- Dinnen, S 2015, 'PRESENTATION - Innovations in Security at local levels: lessons from Melanesia'.
- Corbett, J & Dinnen, S 2015, Abolishing National Aid Agencies Offers No New Paradigm But Means Loss of Autonomy, Professional Skill, pp. Online.
- Dinnen, S & Peake, G 2015, 'Experimentation and innovation in police reform: Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Bougainville', Political Science, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 21-37.
- Smith, G & Dinnen, S 2015, IB2015/48 And Then There Were Three: A New Chinese Miner in Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-2pp.
- Dinnen, S 2015, IB2015/46 Justice Delivered Locally in Rural Solomon Islands, pp. 1-2pp.
- Dinnen, S & Kent, L 2015, IB2015/50 Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development: A Critical Interrogation, pp. 1-2pp.
- Dinnen, S, Forsyth, M & Brown, A 2015, 'SEMINAR - Introduction to the Concept of Hyridity: Why is it a Concept Worth Interrogating?'.
- Dinnen, S 2015, 'PRESENTATION - Security Governance and Extractive Industries: The Restoring Justice Initiative at Porgera, PNG'.
- Dinnen, S & Evans, D 2015, 'PRESENTATION - The Community Officer in Solomon Islands'.
- Dinnen, S 2015, 'PRESENTATION - Legal Innovation in Solomon Islands: The Community Officer Pilot Project'.
- Dinnen, S & Allen, M 2015, 'PRESENTATION - History, power and scale in Solomon Islands: reflections on hybridity as an analytical lens on state formation'.
- Allen, M & Dinnen, S 2015, 'Solomon Islands in Transition?', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 381-397.
- Dinnen, S & Allen, M 2015, Sustaining the Gains in Post-RAMSI Solomon Islands. State, Society and Governance in Melanesia In Brief 2015/36.
- Dinnen, S 2014, 'Transforming the Neighbours? Australian Interventionism in the South Pacific', in Charles Hawksley and Nichole Georgeou (ed.), The Globalization of World Politics: Case Studies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific (3rd ed), Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Australia, pp. 19-22.
- Dressel, B & Dinnen, S 2014, Four reservations about political settlements, pp. Online.
- Dinnen, S 2014, 'PRESENTATION - Development Thinking and Justice Reform'.
- Peake, G & Dinnen, S 2014, IB2014/16 Transnational Crime in the Pacific - A Conversation Starter, pp. 1-2pp.
- Dressel, B & Dinnen, S 2014, Political settlements: old wine in new bottles?.
- Peake, G & Dinnen, S 2014, 'Police Development in Papua New Guinea: The Need for Innovation', Security Challenges, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 33-51.
- Peake, G & Dinnen, S 2014, IB2014/45 Police Development in Papua New Guinea: The Need for More Innovation, pp. 1-2pp.
- Dinnen, S 2014, 'RAMSI Ten Years On - From Post-Conflict Stabilisation to Development in Solomon Islands?', Journal of International Peacekeeping, vol. 18, pp. 195-213.
- McKenna, K & Dinnen, S 2014, IB2014/56 Operationalising the United Nations' 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework at the Porgera Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-2pp.
- Dinnen, S & Allen, M 2014, 'PRESENTATION - Justice Delivered Locally as a lens on state formation in Solomon Islands: reflections on agency, scale and hybridity'.
- Allen, M & Dinnen, S 2013, RAMSI: Solomon Islands in transition, pp. Online.
- Allen, M & Dinnen, S 2013, 'Solomon Islands: From uprising to intervention', in Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony J Regan (ed.), Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why some subside and others don't, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 69-84.
- Dinnen, S & Peake, G 2013, 'More Than Just Policing: Police Reform in Post-conflict Bougainville', International Peacekeeping, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 570-584.
- Corbett, J & Dinnen, S 2013, Back to the future? The split personality of Australian aid, pp. Online.
- Allen, M & Dinnen, S 2013, Solomon Islands in Transition: Workshop Report.
- Allen, M & Dinnen, S 2013, Trouble in paradise lingers. The Canberra Times.
- Allen, M, Dinnen, S, Evans, D et al 2013, Justice Delivered Locally Systems, Challenges and Innovations in Solomon Islands. Washington DC: World Bank, Justice Delivered Locally, Research Report, August 2013, pp 1-92.
- Dinnen, S & Allen, M 2012, 'Paradoxes of postcolonial police-building: Solomon Islands', Policing and Society: an international journal of research & policy, pp. 1-21.
- Dinnen, S 2012, 'The Solomon Islands-RAMSI, Transition and Future Prospects', Security Challenges, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 61-71.
- Dinnen, S & Haley, N 2012, Evaluation of the Community Officer Project in Solomon Islands. The World Bank, Washington.
- Dinnen, S & Allen, M 2012, 'Conference Presentation - States of Imagination - Statebuilding in post-conflict Solomon Islands - 5-8 DEC 2012', European Society for Oceanists, 9th Conference, European Society for Oceanists, Bergen, Norway..
- Dinnen, S & Allen, M 2011, 'PRESENTATION - Unbounded intervention? Thinking Beyond Exit in the case of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands'.
- Dinnen, S, Cartwright, J, Jenneker, M et al 2010, 'Community-building and Security: Case Studies', in Vicki Luker and Sinclair Dinnen (ed.), Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 237-264.
- Dinnen, S 2010, 'From Ideals to Reality in International Rule of Law Work - the Case of Papua New Guinea', International Peacekeeping, vol. 14, no. 3-4, pp. 301-329.
- Braithwaite, J, Dinnen, S, Allen, M et al 2010, Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
- Law, G & Dinnen, S 2010, 'Prisons and HIV in Papua New Guinea', in Vicki Luker and Sinclair Dinnen (ed.), Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 179-189.
- Allen, M & Dinnen, S 2010, 'The North down under: antinomies of conflict and intervention in Solomon Islands', Conflict, Security and Development, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 299-327.
- Luker, V & Dinnen, S 2010, 'Entwined Endemics: HIV and 'Law and Order'', in Vicki Luker and Sinclair Dinnen (ed.), Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 15-44.
- Luker, V & Dinnen, S, eds, 2010, Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Dinnen, S 2009, 'Thirty Years of Law and Order Policy and Practice: Trying To Do "Too Much, Too Badly, With Too Little'?', in R J May (ed.), Policy Making and Implementation: Studies from Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 233-260.
- Dinnen, S & McLeod, A 2009, 'Policing Melanesia - international expectations and local realities', Policing and Society: an international journal of research & policy, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 333-353.
- Dinnen, S & Braithwaite, J 2009, 'Reinventing policing through the prism of the colonial kiap', Policing and Society: an international journal of research & policy, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 1-12.
- Dinnen, S 2009, 'The Crisis of State in Solomon Islands', Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 70-78.
- Dinnen, S & Thompson, E 2009, 'State, society and the gender of gun culture in Papua New Guinea', in Vanessa Far, Henri Myrttinen, Albrecht Schnabel (ed.), Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons, United Nations University Press, Tokyo and New York, pp. 143-176.
- Dinnen, S & Braithwaite, J 2009, 'Reinventing Policing Through the Prism of the Colonial Kiap', in Peter Grabosky, assistance of Christine Nam (ed.), Community Policing and Peacekeeping, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York, pp. 325-340.
- Dinnen, S & Firth, S, eds, 2008, Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Dinnen, S 2008, 'Dilemmas of intervention and the building of state and nation', in Sinclair Dinnen and Stewart Firth (ed.), Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 1-38.
- McLeod, A & Dinnen, S 2008, 'The Quest for Integration: Australian Approaches to Security and Development in the Pacific Islands', Security Challenges, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 23-43.
- Dinnen, S 2008, 'Solomon Islands', in Clinton Fernandes (ed.), Hot Spot: Asia and Oceania, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport USA, pp. 201-227.
- Dinnen, S 2008, 'Beyond state-centrism: external solutions and the governance of security in Melanesia', in Greg Fry and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka (ed.), Intervention and state-building in the Pacific - the legitimacy of 'cooperative intervention', Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 102-118.
- Dinnen, S, McLeod, A & Peake, G 2008, 'Police-building in Weak States: Australian Approaches in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands', in Gordon Peake, Eric Scheye and Alice Hills (ed.), Managing Insecurity: Field Experiences of Security Sector Reform, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 1-22.
- Dinnen, S 2008, 'State-Building in a Post-Colonial Society: The Case of Solomon Islands', Chicago Journal of International Law, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 51-78.
- Dinnen, S 2008, 'The Solomon Islands intervention and the instabilities of the post-colonial state', Global Change, Peace and Security (electronic), vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 339-335.
- Goldsmith, A & Dinnen, S 2007, 'Transnational Police Building: critical lessons from Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands', Third World Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 1091-1109.
- Dinnen, S 2007, 'A comment on State-building in Solomon Islands', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 255-263.
- McLeod, A & Dinnen, S 2007, 'Police Building in the Southwest Pacific - New Directions in Australian Regional Policing.', in Andrew Goldsmith and James SHEPTYCKI (ed.), Crafting Transnational Policing: Police Capacity-Building and Global Policing Reform, Hart Publishing, Oford and Portland, OREGON, pp. 295-328.
- Dinnen, S 2006, 'Restorative justice and the governance of security in the Southwest Pacific', in Dannis Sullivan, Larry Tifft (ed.), Handbook of Restorative Justice: A Global Perspective, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon, UK, pp. 401-421.
- Dinnen, S, McLeod, A & Peake, G 2006, 'Police-Building in Weak States: Australian Approaches in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands', Civil Wars, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 87-108.
- Dinnen, S 2004, 'The Trouble with Melanesia', in Ivan Molloy (ed.), The Eye of the Cyclone: Issues in Pacific Security, PIPSA & University of the Sunshine Coast Press, Sippy Downs Queensland, pp. 67-75.
- Dinnen, S 2004, 'Aid effectiveness and Australia's new interventionism in the Southwest Pacific', Development Bulletin (Canberra), vol. 65, pp. 76-80.
- Dinnen, S 2004, 'Papua New Guinea', in Maureen P Duffy and Scott Edward Gillig (ed.), Teen Gangs: A Global View, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 149-166.
- Dinnen, S 2004, 'Australia Lends a Fist', Foreign Policy (Washington), vol. Nil, no. Nil, pp. 90-91.
- Dinnen, S 2004, 'Papua New Guinea and Australia's Enhanced Cooperation Program - a new regional model?', What's Next?, vol. NIL, no. NIL, p. 9.
- Dinnen, S 2004, 'Australia's new interventionism in the southwest Pacific', in Nancy Sullivan (ed.), Governance challenges for PNG and the Pacific Islands, Divine Word University Press, PNG, pp. 59-72.
- Dinnen, S 2004, Lending a Fist: Australia's New Interventionism in the Southwest Pacific, ANU.
- Dinnen, S, Regan, A & Hegarty, D 2004, Rebuilding State and Nation in Solomon Islands: Policy Options for the Regional Assistance Mission, ANU.
- Dinnen, S 2003, 'Building bridges - law and justice reform in Papua New Guinea', in Anita Jowitt and Dr Tess Newton Cain (ed.), Passage of change: law, society and governance in the Pacific, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 277-303.
- Dinnen, S 2003, 'Guns, money and politics: disorder in the Solomon Islands', in R.J. May (ed.), Arc of Instability? Melanesia in the Early 2000s, University of Canterbury and ANU, New Zealand and Australia, pp. 27-40.
- Dinnen, S 2003, 'Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands: an introduction', in Sinclair Dinnen, with Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain (ed.), A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 1-14.
- Dinnen, S 2002, 'Winners and losers: politics and disorder in the Solomon Islands 2000-2002', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 285-298.
- Dinnen, S 2001, 'Restorative Justice and Civil Society in Melanesia: The Case of Papua New Guinea', in Heather Strang and John Braithwaite (ed.), Restorative Justice and Civil Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 99-113.
- Dinnen, S 2001, Law and Order in a Weak State. Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea, University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii.
- Dinnen, S 2000, 'Violence and Governance in Melanesia - an Introduction', in Dinnen, S.; Ley, A. (ed.), Reflections on Violence in Melanesia, Hawkins Press and Asia Pacific Press, Leichhardt, NSW and Canberra, pp. 1-16.
- Dinnen, S 1999, 'Violence and governance in Melanesia', Pacific Economic Bulletin, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 63-73.
- Dinnen, S 1999, 'Militaristic Solutions in a Weak State: Internal Security, Private Contractors and Political Leadership in Papua New Guinea', The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 279-303.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Reporting, Investigating and Prosecuting Family and Sexual Violence Offences in PNG (Secondary Investigator)
- Pacific Literacy Course (Secondary Investigator)
- Improving the impact of state and non-state interventions in overcoming sorcery accusation related violence in PNG - Orders 1 (Secondary Investigator)
- The RAMSI Legacy for Pacific Policing (Secondary Investigator)
- Development of the 'Legais' Country Factbook (Primary Investigator)
