ADR

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The term “alternative dispute resolution” or “ADR” is often used to describe a wide dispute resolution mechanism. These mechanisms are often short of, or alternative to a full scale court process. In other word, the alternative dispute resolution includes processes and techniques that facilitate disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. The commission of defines ADR “a broad spectrum of structured processes, including mediation and conciliation, which does not include litigation though it may be linked to or integrated with litigation, and which a involves the assistance of a neutral third party, and which empowers parties to resolve their own disputes.” The term can refer to everything from facilitated settlement negotiations in which disputants are encouraged to negotiate directly with each other prior to some other legal process, to any kind of arbitration systems or negotiation, conciliation or “mini-trials” that looks and feel very much like a courtroom process. Any process or form of solving disputes or reducing tension between communities and will foster...

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