John Braithwaite

Professor John Braithwaite

Distinguished Professor, Chief Investigator of 'Peacebuilding Compared'

Centre for International Governance and Justice (CIGJ), Centre for Restorative Justice (CRJ), Centre for Tax System Integrity (CTSI), Crime, Policing, Security and Justice Group, RegHealth

Qualifications

B.A. (University of Queensland), Ph.D (University of Queensland)

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P: +61 2 6125 2332

E: john.braithwaite@anu.edu.au

Room: 3.41

Building: Coombs Extension, #8

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John Braithwaite is a Professor and Founder of RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network), now School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.

John Braithwaite has been active in social movement politics around these and other ideas for 40 years in Australia and internationally. In the past he has worked on a variety of areas of business regulation and on the crime problem. His best known work is on the ideas of responsive regulation and restorative justice. His most recent book is the co-authored volume, Pharmaceuticals, Corporate Crime and Public Health (2014), with Graham Dukes and J.P Moloney.

He is now undertaking a 20-year comparative project called ‘Peacebuilding Compared’, with Hilary Charlesworth and Valerie Braithwaite. Publications from this project include the co-authored Networked Governance of Freedom and Tyranny: Peace in East Timor (ANU Press: 2012); Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands (ANU E Press: 2010); Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment: Sequencing peace in Bougainville (ANU E Press: 2010); and Anomie and Violence: Non-truth and reconciliation in Indonesian peacebuilding (ANU E Press: 2010).

Research interests

Responsive peacebuilding; peacekeeping; regulatory theory; responsive regulation; restorative justice; business regulation

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ANU & EPA Awarded Research Grant on Restorative Justice for Environment

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has recently awarded the Australian National University (ANU) and Victorian Environmental Protection Author

Abstract representation of cascading violence

Cascades of violence: War, crime and peacebuilding across South Asia

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Consumers vulnerable to false medical claims

Leading experts in regulation and public health, civil society and professional groups are opposing parts of the Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill because they raise significant concerns about consumer rights and consumer safety in Australia.

Image: Buka, Bougainville by Rita Willaert (flickr)

Honour the Bougainville Peace Agreement

This article first appeared in 'War. Crime. Regulation' on 28 September 2017.

Control, threat and deterrence

John Braithwaite gives a superb introduction to the concepts of control, threat and deterrence in the management of people and nations.

RegNet Founder wins international award for significant academic contribution

Congratulations to John Braithwaite for picking up the

Ending residual paramilitary domination in Northern Ireland

This week’s blog on War•Crime•Regulation gives a brief summary of John Braithwaite’s recent paper co-written with Kirsty Campbell and Derick Wilson on ending residual paramilitary domination in Northern Ireland.

Understanding terrorism through restorative justice

In this new blog on War•Crime•Regulation, John and Val Braithwaite visit Milan to attend a dialogue between convicted Italian terrorists of the 1970s from organisations such as the Red Brigades, and the families of victims.

China and the challenges of consumer product safety

New blog post on War•Crime•Regulation by John Braithwaite looks at why China’s rate of product safety alerts is comparatively so high.

Restorative justice and healing the environment

New blog post on War•Crime•Regulation by John Braithwaite looks at what restorative justice looks like in terms of healing the environment.

Ethical compliance management

A new blog post on War•Crime•Regulation by John Braithwaite and Bill Dee looks at ethical compliance and management.

The frustrations of Royal Commissions

Australians were rightly ashamed last week to see the Four Corners program on brutality against children at the Don Dale Detention Centre in the Northern Territory. Yes, it is to our credit as a people that we can feel national disgust at this and establish a Royal Commission to report on what we need to do about it.

David Levi-Faur and “Regulation & Governance"

No one has made a larger contribution than David Levi-Faur to networked building of the strength of the regulatory studies community of scholars, especially in Europe and in political science, but much more widely as well.