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Crime-war as a cascade phenomenon

Max Weber March Lecture

Add to calendar 2023-03-01 17:00 2023-03-01 18:30 Europe/Rome Crime-war as a cascade phenomenon Refectory Badia Fiesolana YYYY-MM-DD
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When

01 March 2023

17:00 - 18:30 CET

Where

Refectory

Badia Fiesolana

This lecture hosts a presentation by John Braithwaite (Australian National University).

The Peacebuilding Compared project led by John Braithwaite since 2004 has completed preliminary fieldwork and coding on 68 armed conflicts since the end of the Cold War. Causal process tracing reveals that particular kinds of crime are often a spark of war. War also tends to cascade to elevated rates of homicide and suicide in combatant countries and in countries bordering the country at war. Braithwaite’s Macrocriminology and Freedom (2022) argues that crime and war are cascade phenomena and that domination is a cascade phenomenon that cascades to crime and war. The history of slavery looms large in the geopolitical trends that shape cascades among domination, crime and war. After the ban on the slave trade consolidated in the nineteenth century, major powers shifted interest from establishing new African colonies to chipping away at non-European Empires, first China, then the Ottoman Empire, with the 1911 war in Libya a particularly devastating war that was quickly followed by Balkan wars and then World War I to end the Ottoman Empire. The current Libyan wars are traced as part of a trajectory of crime, slavery, post-colonial genocide, and the contemporary cascade of Islamic State across Africa. Crime prevention might have prevented this Libyan cascade of crime, war and terrorism; greater reticence of escalation from a peaceful Arab Spring to a NATO-armed Libyan Liberation War might have prevented it.

About the speaker:

John Braithwaite is an Emeritus Professor and Founder of RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network), now School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.

He has been active in the peace movement, the politics of development, the social movement for restorative justice, the labour movement and the consumer movement, around these and other ideas for 50 years in Australia and internationally.

Since 2004 he has led a 25-year comparative project called Peacebuilding Compared (most recent book: Networked Governance of Freedom and Tyranny (2012, with Hilary Charlesworth and Aderito Soares). He also works on business regulation and the crime problem. His best-known research is on the ideas of responsive regulation (for which the most recent book is Regulatory Capitalism: How it works, ideas for making it work better (2008)) and restorative justice (most useful book, Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation (2002)). Reintegrative shaming has also been an important focus (see Eliza Ahmed, Nathan Harris, John Braithwaite and Valerie Braithwaite (2001) Shame Management through Reintegration).

Scientific Organiser(s):

Prof. Juho Härkönen (EUI)

Speaker(s):

John Braithwaite (Australian National University)

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