legal pluralism

...Accumulation of research and studies has revealed that in so-called primitive societies, confrontation, combat, revenge, etc., are in fact accompanied by certain rules, including dispute resolution methods, and that these are also the social constitutive principles that bind various groups; that is, the means of conflict resolution are well developed, and there are various systems such as banishment, isolation, punishment, negotiation between the parties, and the intervention of third parties such as mediation, arbitration, and adjudication, and this has had a major impact on peace and conflict research in modern society. This theme has often been considered specifically as the relationship between lower-level national courts and indigenous law courts or practices, but an expanded view of this is the theme of legal pluralism. This awareness of the issue is also beginning to be directed at Western societies, and various dispute resolution methods that function in place of courts are being studied as alternatives to courts. ...

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…調査･研究の蓄積により，いわゆる未開社会では対決，戦闘，復讐などが，実は紛争処理手段を含む一定のルールを伴っていて，それらが諸集団を結びつける社会構成原理ともなっていること，すなわち紛争を処理する手段が発達していて，当事者の追放，離隔，処罰，当事者間の交渉，それに対する仲介，調停，裁定など第三者の介入等々の諸制度のあることが明らかとなり，現代社会の平和研究，紛争研究にも大きな影響を与えている。このテーマは具体的には下級の国家裁判所と固有法上の裁判所ないし慣行との関係として考察されることが多かったが，この視点を拡大させたものが法体制多元論legal pluralismのテーマである。この問題意識は西欧社会にも向けられはじめ，裁判所にかわって機能している諸紛争処理手段が裁判代替手段として研究されつつある。…

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