The history of alternative dispute resolutions in the united states

The aim of this study is to present the birth, the improvements and the promotion of Alternative Dispute Resolutions (ADR) in the United States. In the research stage of this study, Emory University School of Law Library and its online law database were the guidelines. In this pa-per, the forms of common ADR procedures, which are negotiation, medi-ation, and arbitration, are introduced in brief and compared in order to get acquainted with them. Then premature ADR examples are explained in traditional societies and religions in order to notice the differences and improvements between before and now. After that, how America met ADR will be expressed in a chronological order between 1700 to 2000s with emphasizing and reasoning the most important steps, which are im-portant for the development of ADR in the US. As a human being the best means to understand each other is communication. ADR techniques are the guidelines to cooperate with the opposite side and the US has ear-ly discovered how these techniques are beneficial.

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