The death of Anne Deveson in December 2016 was a great loss to Australia. She was a member of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships in the 1970s that ushered in the legalisation of homosexuality, women’s refuges, the decriminalisation of abortion, among other reforms. She Chaired and launched many other great Australian institutions and civil [...] The post Anne Deveson and ‘Paper Trails’ appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
(This post is co-authored with John by Associate Professor Miranda Forsyth of RegNet) Instability and the potential of conflict recurrence could be brewing in Bougainville. Yesterday John Momis, the President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government, expressed extreme concern about statements by PNG Prime Minister O’Neil that cast doubt on whether the referendum on independence [...] The post Honour the Bougainville Peace Agreement appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
We are blessed in Canberra’s universities with the leadership of a new generation of restorative justice leaders who are richly experienced health and welfare professionals. Mary Ivec, who has a professional background as a social worker, was last month elected by the Canberra Restorative Community Network to be its first Convenor. This was [...] The post Mary Ivec, Holly Northam, Restorative Health and Indigenous Yarning Circles appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
There is a growing problem of ‘rape culture’ on the campus of the Australian National University. There have been new dimensions of this problem in recent years such as a Facebook group titled ‘ANU Stalkerspace’ which has been the particularly public host of some unpleasant public discussion about women and minorities. The Rape Crisis Centre [...] The post Codie Bell’s quest to transform universities appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
Lorenn Walker Hawai’i Friends of Restorative Justice, (HFRJ) was incorporated in 1980 to provide juvenile diversion. Since 1995 it has promoted public health solutions to build community in response to injustice and crime by developing, testing, and training others on pilot restorative interventions in a variety of areas. It has an inspiring [...] The post Our Hawai’i Friends of Restorative Justice appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
In a recent article[1] I argued that civil aviation regulation responded much more effectively to prevent hijacking following 9/11 compared to other regulators with responsibility for terrorism prevention. And they responded much more effectively than banking regulators have done in learning from past financial crises to prevent future ones. Some countries and airports were [...] The post Why is Civil Aviation Regulation More Effective than Financial Regulation? appeared first on John Braithw...| John Braithwaite
Cary Coglianese and the Networked Governance of Regulatory Studies (I wrote this piece for RegBlog, where it was published on 27 Feb, 2017) An important new Brookings book edited by Cary Coglianese has landed: Achieving Regulatory Excellence. The book asks the question ‘What defines an excellent regulator?' I read the book as showing how smarter governance [...] The post Regulatory Excellence appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
Kerry Clamp’s final chapter of her new volume, Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings , is about a transformative vision for restorative justice as a response to mass victimisation. One way I have argued for transitional justice to become more transformative is for it to become less transitional. In her recent writing, Kerry Clamp has also [...] The post Learning to Scale Up Restorative Justice appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
Asia and the Pacific embrace the regions of greatest cultural and linguistic diversity in the world. Asia’s most important contribution to global criminology is therefore in opening its eyes to completely new ways of seeing, as opposed to adjusting, testing, or revising western theories in light of eastern experience. Restorative justice innovation provides good examples [...] The post Diversity in Asian and Pacific Relational Justice appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite
My co-author and former PhD student, Ray Nickson, who is now Criminal Justice Program Director in the Peace and Conflict Studies Centre of Fresno Pacific University sent me this inspiring news story: Well done 17 year old Sam, well done Bullard High School and Fresno Pacific for such a great innovation in restorative justice healing through [...] The post LGBT bullying and restorative empowerment appeared first on John Braithwaite.| John Braithwaite