Transformation of Legal Awareness Through the Development and Use of Alternative Methods of Conflict Resolution

Abstract

To date, the state and society are interested in transformation of legal awareness towards a positive perception of alternative methods of legal conflict resolution. For the judiciary, popularization of the alternative methods indicates a decrease in the number of cases considered, and for the society, it provides the opportunity to find a non-standard, non-typical option for settlement of a legal dispute. An attempt to develop the category of 'transformation of legal awareness' and to determine its features is a fundamentally new phenomenon in Russian science. Approaches to understanding a legal conflict are generalized. In Russian legal practice, the alternative methods of legal conflict resolution include negotiations, claim procedures (pre-trial), mediation (extrajudicial procedures), and arbitration procedures. In foreign practice, the methods include mixed forms, for example, a judge mediator. The experience of China, the Republic of Lithuania, the Netherlands, Russia, the USA, France, Croatia, Switzerland, etc. was analyzed. Legal awareness can be transformed in the educational process in schools, universities, and as part of corporate training and legal education of citizens.