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How do we prevent war? How do we prevent crime? Or prevent domination by big business, governments and other actors? These questions are interconnected in the scholarship of John Braithwaite.
War and crime are among the most severe forms of domination that exist. They are both phenomena that cascade from hot spot to hot spot, and […]
Some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different process of shaming wrongdoing. When it is stigmatising, shaming can be counterproductive, making crime problems worse. But when shaming is done within a cultural context of respect for the offender, it can be an extraordinarily powerful, efficient and just form of social control. […]
The network idea is that war and crime can only be controlled — and peace with justice achieved — by a fabric of prevention made up of many threads in civil society, state and global action. Even weak networks can control strong tyrannies. Yet, the very nodes of networks of freedom can themselves become nodes […]
Civic republican political theory, since the time of the ancient Roman Republic, has been about the idea that good governance should reduce the amount of domination in the world. John Braithwaite’s scholarship is in that tradition of seeking to design peacebuilding, crime prevention and regulation to reduce the amount of domination in the world. […]
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 […]
Responsive regulation is about ‘tripartism’ in regulation. It highlights the limits of regulation as a transaction between the state and business. It argues that unless there is some third party (or a number of them) in the regulatory game, regulation will be captured and corrupted by money power. Responsive regulation involves listening […]
United Nations, African Union and other peacekeeping has grown. What are the kinds of interventions that create wars and make things worse for people? How can peacebuilding contribute to justice and development? How do war and peace cascade from one hot spot to another? How can peacebuilding be locally responsive and restorative as it transforms […]