A young lady arrogantly disregarded the aviation protocols in a Nigerian airport. The aviation authorities, while trying to enforce the law, manhandled the young lady to the point of exposing her unclad body publicly. Both parties are right and right and wrong at the same time, for they have both went against some established laws. The parties came together and settled the dispute without approaching the courts.
Two families had disagreements on the ownership of a piece of land. They eschewed violence and decided to head to court. They later discovered that the financial commitments to pursue the case in court were more than the monetary value of the land in dispute.
A politician felt he was cheated in an election and approached the courts. The case lingered till the one perceived to have been fraudulently declared winner finished a four year tenure in office.
Other examples abound of the increasing ineffective nature of the traditional litigation modes of resolving conflicts.
The diversity that exists in the human society makes for inevitability of conflicts. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) tries to bring in every alternative that is outside the traditional law courts. These alternatives try to be less costly and less time consuming in resolving conflicts.
- Quote paper
- Evarist Okpala (Author), 2025, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). A Veritable Means of Conflict Management, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/1609493
