Associate Professor Sinclair Dinnen
LLB (Hons) (Strath), MA (Sheff), PhD (ANU)
Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
ANU College of Asia and 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, UK, 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, UK, 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 [IN PRESS]', Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, vol. Online.
- Putt, J & Dinnen, S 2018, Serving in a Multinational Police Mission in Solomon Islands: New Zealand Perspectives’.
- Dinnen, S 2018, Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development.
- Dinnen, S 2018, The RAMSI Legacy for Pacific Policing.
- 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.
- 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)
