Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking
What Are We Doing over on Substack?
Substack is where I’ve been publishing my Field Notes as we’ve been designing a pro bono scheme for veterans’ mediation over the past few weeks.
Field Notes are my way of sharing how the idea has been taking shape. Here’s a list of publications so far:
Designing with Care: A Veterans’ Mediation Program (April 1st, 2025)
Mediation Program Design within a Care Framework: Drawing the Circle of Practice (April 8th, 2025)
Hope Is a Risk We Take Together: Mediation program Design within a Care Framework (April 15th, 2025)
Towards a Theory & Practice of Relational Justice in Veterans’ Mediation: Mediation Program Design within an Ethic of Care Framework (April 22nd, 2025)
Finding Room for Courage: Discretion and Relational Justice in Veterans’ Disputes: Mediating with Moral Presence in Institutional Disputes (April 29th, 2025)
“It’s Not Fair!”: A Supplementary Field Note on the Jurisprudential Foundations of WorkAccord’s Veteran’ ADR Program (May 1st, 2025)
Holding Space where the Quality of Mercy Is Most Definitely Strained: Mediating Discretion in the Shadow of Administrative Power. (May 7th, 2025)
Practising “Mercy” in the Mediation of Veteran - Institution Disputes: Mediating Discretion in the Shadow of Administrative Power Part 2 (May 8th, 2025)
“Mediation Is More than an Event”
This last Field Note (May 13th) brought to an end Phase 1 of our design work.
When we tested our Veterans' mediation model, we discovered that mediation is more than an event - it is a form of presence, of accompaniment.
That’s an idea we’ll be working with in Phase 2 as we explore the space in which veterans’ disputes and conflicts develop before they ever find their way into a mediation program or even crystalize as a claim.
An Invitation
If you’d like to follow or support the work, your warmly invited subscribe to Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking over in Substack. It’s free, and nothing is tucked away behind a paywall.
Andrew C. Wood