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Personal profile
Qualifications
LLB (Hons) (Strath), MA (Sheff), PhD (ANU)
Research interests
Post-colonial state formation; plural policing; regulatory pluralism; law & justice reform; political ordering; development discourse and practice; crime; conflict; peacebuilding; nationbuilding.
Biography
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, justice and policing, conflict and peacebuilding, state formation and nation-making in the Melanesian Pacific. Sinclair's most recent book (co-authored with Danielle Watson, Loene Howes, Melissa Bull and Sara Amin) is Policing in the Pacific Islands (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Building peace from the ground up: a call for a peace strategy in PNG
Forsyth, M. & Dinnen, S., 15 Apr 2025, Devpolicy Blog.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article
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Community Order-Making in Melanesia Part 1 –Empirical Findings
Forsyth, M., Dinnen, S., Tuhanuku, A. & Roberts, A., 2025, 2 p. Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs (ANU).Research output: Other contribution
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Slow peacebuilding to prevent the outbreak of fighting following peace
Kipongi, W., Forsyth, M. & Dinnen, S., 19 Sept 2025, Devpolicy Blog 7 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article
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Where Are Our By-Laws? Community Innovation and Lost Opportunities in Urban Fiji
Dinnen, S. & Forsyth, M., 2 Dec 2025, 34 ed., Department of Pacific Affairs, 2 p.Research output: Working and Policy papers › Policy Paper
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Why Some Community By-Laws Stick and Others Slip Part 2 — An Adaptive Cycle Explanation
Forsyth, M., Dinnen, S., Tuhanuku, A. & Roberts, A., 2025, 2 p. Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs (ANU).Research output: Other contribution
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Community Rule-Making in the Pacific Islands as Regulatory Innovation
Forsyth, M. (PI), Boodoosingh, R. (CoI), Dinnen, S. (CoI), Hukula, F. (CoI), Kipongi, W. (CoI) & Roberts, A. (CoI)
31/01/22 → 31/01/28
Project: Research
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Improving responses to sexual violence against children in Papua New Guinea
Putt, J. (PI), Dinnen, S. (CoI) & Essacu, F. (CoI)
27/12/21 → 27/12/27
Project: Research
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VAPJP Policing and Justice Services Study
Putt, J. (PI), Barbara, J. (CoI) & Dinnen, S. (CoI)
26/07/21 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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The Role of the Private Sector in Enhancing Security in Papua New Guinea
Dinnen, S. (PI) & Walton, G. (CoI)
1/02/20 → 30/12/20
Project: Research
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Reporting, Investigating and Prosecuting Family and Sexual Violence Offences in PNG
Putt, J. (PI) & Dinnen, S. (CoI)
15/05/19 → 15/12/19
Project: Research