Conflict is curvilinear, too much closeness brings enmeshment and too much separation brings isolation. Conflict resolution is both de-enmeshment and connection. The dynamism of these poles mean that 'connection' and 'separateness' are continually, presently, renegotiated.

Conflict, the tension between un-differentiated and differentiated union. Growth, the movement from one to the other.

"there is no bridgeable gap between power and legitimacy" - Chantal Mouffe

Readings on deliberative democracy and polarization in divided societies. On "agonistic pluralism": "every consensus exists as a temporary result of a provisional hegemony, as a stabilization of power that always entails some form of exclusion" (Mouffe, 2007).

Did you know there is a legal design summit in Helsinki, Finland? This will be the third year it is held. I'm going - are you?
legaldesignsummit.com

First of its kind academic journal that is specific to the discipline of legal design:

In mediating dangerously, Ken Cloke (2001) reconceptualizes mediation with a radically new purpose: " to create a controlled 'chain reaction,' in which the conflict is allowed to explode and implode without damaging the parties"

A visual of subjective justice indicators from Hester et al. (2023). The study clusters 642 mentions of justice with 251 participants into the following themes. How can law be "responsive" to subjective justice indicators?

The concerns raised in this article show how the housing crisis and general unaffordability exacerbates issues of IPV. It also means that different models of intervention may be needed, across the whole spectrum of risk, that consider the reality of separation whilst living together.

Trying this out. In your view, is justice design a discrete discipline, a professional activity, or something else?