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John Braithwaite
Professor John Braithwaite
Qualifications
B.A. (University of Queensland), Ph.D (University of Queensland)
John Braithwaite is an Emeritus Professor and Founder of RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network), now School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.
John is best known for his work on restorative justice, responsive regulation and the globalization of regulation. He has been active in social movement politics for 50 years in Australia and internationally. In the past he has worked on a variety of areas of business regulation and on the crime problem. He now leads a 25-year comparative project called ‘Peacebuilding Compared’. Publications from this project include the co-authored Cascades of Violence: War, Crime and Peacebuilding Across South Asia (ANU Press 2018); Networked Governance of Freedom and Tyranny: Peace in East Timor (ANU Press: 2012); P_illars 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
- Peacebuilding
- Peacekeeping
- Regulatory theory
- Responsive regulation
- Restorative justice
- Business regulation
Read more on John’s research and publications on his personal website on War|Crime|Regulation available at johnbraithwaite.com
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Tempering Power
On Saturday, November 10, join us for “Tempering Power”, The Baldy Center’s 40th Anniversary Conference held in conjunction with the Mitchell Lecture.

ANU & EPA Awarded Research Grant on Restorative Justice for Environment
The Australian Research Council (ARC) recently awarded the Australian National University (ANU) and Victorian Environmental Protection Authority

Cascades of violence: War, crime and peacebuilding across South Asia
War and crime are cascade phenomena. War cascades across space and time to more war; crime to more crime; crime cascades to war; and war to crime.

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.

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 receives Law and Society Association International Prize
RegNet is proud to announce that Professor John Braithwaite was awarded 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.

John Braithwaite launces "War|Crime|Regulation" website
A new website and blog has been launched hosting John Braithwaite’s research on war, crime and regulation.

RegNet scholars quoted in Victorian Law Reform Commission report
RegNet scholars Julie Ayling and John Braithwaite have been quoted in a new Victorian Law Reform Commission report, Use of Regulatory Regimes in Preventing the Infiltration of Organised Crime i

John Braithwaite key speaker at restorative practice conference
What would Canberra look like as a restorative city?
Current

The peacebuilding compared project
What are the kinds of interventions that create wars and make things worse for people? How can peacebuilding contribute to justice and development?
Completed

Competition and consumer laws in a global market
This project contained five interrelated projects which explored the impact of globalisation from a competition and consumer policy perspective for the relatively small and isolated Australian market.

Evaluating the effectiveness of ACCC compliance and enforcement activity
The project provided performance information on the effectiveness of the ACCC's compliance and enforcement activities.

Regulatory strategies for improving health sector performance
This theme applied concepts from the ‘responsive regulation’ model in examining ways to govern the performance of health care.

Resolving patients complaints about hospitals: responsive regulation by health ombudsmen
The voice of patients can be hard to hear above those of the many vested interests in the health sector.

Strengthening the international human rights system: Rights, regulation and ritualism
This project focuses on a problem endemic to the international human rights system: why are international human rights standards widely accepted in theory but so hard to implement in practice?

The Canberra bullying and life at school project (1996-1999)
This project tracked children who bullied others, and were the victims of bullying, and provides insight into their thoughts and actions over a three-year period.

The shame and pride management project: Family, school and workplace conflict in Bangladesh
The Bengali version of the modified ‘Life at School Survey’ (Ahmed, 1996) was administered in nine schools in Bangladesh to children in grades seven to ten.

Transparency and governance working group
In 1998, 'transparency' was dubbed the 'word of the moment' in the New York Times Magazine.

Author(s): John Braithwaite, Aleksandar Marsavelski
Date of publications: 2018
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Date of publications: 2018
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Author(s): John Braithwaite, Bina D'Costa
Date of publications: 2018
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Author(s): John Bratihwaite; Ken Harvey
Date of publications: 2017
Publication type: Government and community sector reports

Author(s): John Braithwaite, Bina D'Costa
Date of publications: 2015
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Author(s): Braithwaite, John, Charlesworth, Hilary, Soares, Aderito
Date of publications: 2012
Publication type: Book

Author(s): Braithwaite, John, Charlesworth, Hilary, Reddy, Peter, Dunn, Leah
Date of publications: 2010
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Author(s): Braithwaite, John, Dinnen, Sinclair, Allen, Matthew, Braithwaite, Valerie, Charlesworth, Hilary
Date of publications: 2010
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Author(s): Braithwaite, John, Braithwaite, Valerie, Cookson, Michael
Date of publications: 2010
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Date of publications: 2008
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Date of publications: 2006
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Date of publications: 2004
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Author(s): Braithwaite, John, Parker, Christine, Scott, Colin, Lacey, Nicola
Date of publications: 2004
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Author(s): Braithwaite, Jphn, Drahos, Peter
Date of publications: 2004
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Author(s): Braithwaite, John
Date of publications: 2004
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Date of publications: 2003
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Date of publications: 2003
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Author(s): Braithwaite, John, Pittelkow, Yvonne, Williams, Rub
Date of publications: 2003
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Author(s): Braithwaite, John
Date of publications: 2000
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Author(s): Braithwaite, John
Date of publications: 2000
Publication type: Conference Paper