Sinclair Dinnen

Sinclair Dinnen is a professor in the Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University.

1 March 2024

Stop the see-saw: how to address conflict in the PNG Highlands

by Sinclair Dinnen and Miranda Forsyth

Police in Port Moresby (Commonwealth Secretariat-Flickr)

2 November 2023

Foreign officers are not the answer to PNG’s policing problems

by Sinclair Dinnen and Miranda Forsyth

Ambu community by-laws sign, Solomon Islands (Sinclair Dinnen)

9 October 2023

Order-making in the shadow of the law: community by-laws in Solomon Islands

by Sinclair Dinnen and Lincy Pedeverana

Port Vila vegetable market, Vanuatu (Rob Maccoll/DFAT)

5 September 2023

Crime and safety in the Pacific Islands: the use of victimisation surveys

by Judy Putt and Sinclair Dinnen

Australian Government Department of Home Affairs

9 August 2023

The flickering light: Australia’s governance credentials damaged

by Sinclair Dinnen and Grant Walton

Gerehu markets, Port Moresby, PNG (Ness Kerson-DFAT-Wikimedia Commons)

23 June 2023

Community building as state building in a Port Moresby suburb

by Miranda Forsyth and Sinclair Dinnen

A photograph of Private security personnel in Port Moresby, PNG.

11 October 2021

Private security in PNG – a networked approach

by Grant Walton and Sinclair Dinnen

Photograph of head and shoulders of a man with dark skin, black hair and black beard. He is in front of a blue wall with height markings written on the doorway edge. He is holding a white sign with hand writing in red that says 'Name: Tommy Maeva Baker'.

20 August 2021

Tommy Baker: PNG’s Ned Kelly?

by Sinclair Dinnen and Grant Walton

21 April 2021

Gender-based violence and private security in Papua New Guinea

by Grant Walton and Sinclair Dinnen

Fisticuffs at Jacksons – addressing conflicts between rival security companies

26 March 2021

Fisticuffs at Jacksons – addressing conflicts between rival security companies

by Grant Walton and Sinclair Dinnen

PNG’s private security industry: what role for international regulation?

3 December 2020

PNG’s private security industry: what role for international regulation?

by Sinclair Dinnen and Grant Walton

Family and Sexual Violence Unit, Lae (Judy Putt)

30 October 2020

Sexual violence against children in Papua New Guinea: what the criminal justice data tells us

by Judy Putt and Sinclair Dinnen