Sinclair Dinnen is a Senior Fellow of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project within the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. He has a PhD in law from The Australian National University and is the author of Law and Order in a Weak State Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea published by the University of Hawaii Press. As well as holding a position at the National Research Institute in Port Moresby and teaching law at the University of Papua New Guinea, he has worked as a law and justice adviser to the government of Papua New Guinea and also as an adviser on the Solomon Islands Peace Process.