he did more to shape Australian foreign policy towards Asia and the Pacific than any other person before or since." Burton's theoretical work on conflict resolution has been highly influential in setting up conflict resolution as an academic discipline in its own right, which is very much needed in the modern globalised world because of the greater potential for disputes between different ethnic and religious communities. In Australia, Burton's work greatly influenced the pioneering course in conflict resolution at Macquarie University, Sydney. Scholarships, fellowships and grants Scholarship - London School of Economics (1941) Fellowship - Australian National University (1960) Grant - Rockefeller Foundation (1962) Fellowship - University of South Carolina (1982) Fellowship - University of Maryland (1983) Fellowship - George Mason University (1982) Publications "The Alternative" (1954) "Labour in transition" (1957) "International relations: a general theory" (1965) "Controlled communication" (1969) "World society" (1972) "Internationale politiek" (1974) "Deviance, terrorism & war: the process of solving unsolved social and political problems" (1979) "Resolving deep-rooted conflict: a handbook" (1987) "Conflict resolution as a political system" (1988) "On the need for conflict prevention" (1989) "Conflict: resolution & provention [The Conflict Series vol 1]" (1990) "Conflict: human needs theory [The Conflict Series vol 2]" (1993) "Conflict: readings in management and resolution [The Conflict Series vol 3]" (1990) "Conflict: practices in management, settlement and resolution [The Conflict Series vol 4]" (1990) "Conflict resolution: its language and processes" (1996) References Chapple, Angus (30 April 2011). "AUSTRALIA'S COLD WAR: Australia's Kim Philby? The case of Dr John Burton". News Weekly. Sources 1915 births 2010 deaths Alumni of the London School of Economics People educated at Newington College Australian public servants Public servants from Melbourne Australian diplomats Australian non-fiction writers High Commissioners of Australia to Sri Lanka 20th-century Australian public servants