Honour the Bougainville Peace Agreement
(This post is co-authored with John by Associate Professor Miranda Forsyth of RegNet)
28
09 2017
5
12 2016
Ending residual paramilitary domination in Northern Ireland
John recently co-wrote a paper with Kirsty Campbell (St Andrews University) and Derick Wilson (Ulster University) called Ending residual paramilitary domination in Northern Ireland? Restorative economic and social inclusion strategies.
The paper considers options for dismantling residual pockets of paramilitary domination and draws insights from restorative justice and complexity theory. It places Northern Ireland as […]
27
09 2016
Intimate Histories of War
This is a week of Braithwaite family remembrance of the suffering of war
Dr Brendan Nelson, at the Australian War Memorial on 28 September, will launch my brother Dick’s splendid book on the Sandakan Death March that took the life of our mother’s first husband, Wal Blatch. Our father Dick Braithwaite was one of six Death […]
18
07 2016
Compassion as a value in security sector reform and counterterrorism
The images in this news story and towards the end of this video reveal in an inspiring way that compassion is a critical virtue for the security sector in times of crisis.
There were also reports of a Turkish soldier beheaded by a mob. But many more of unarmed citizens peacefully, firmly […]
6
07 2016
Northern Ireland: duty of hope
Over nine days in late May-June 2016, Derick Wilson, Kirsty Campbell and John Braithwaite had thirty meetings with diverse public, political, civic and community organisations in Belfast, Dublin, Derry and Ballycastle. These meetings were hosted by two reconciliation charities, the Understanding Conflict Trust and the Corrymeela Community on the theme of ‘The Politics of Hope and […]