Mediation Key To Social Harmony

Following the introduction of federal polity as provided in the Constitution of Nepal, 2015, alternative dispute resolution process and mechanism has received a new impetus with judicial committee functioning to resolve community-based disputes at local level. Training manuals, resource materials and handbooks have been produced to build capacity of the judicial committees to enable them to deliver resolution of disputes. The COVID-19 pandemic made it a need to pursue the virtual platforms for dispute resolution as a consequence of which online dispute resolution (ODR) became increasingly popular in the developed and developing world. Though we, in Nepal, have not been able to use virtual space in dispute resolution, studies and knowledge resources on dispute resolution are accessed from web sources and widely referred to in Nepal.