Distinguish arbitration from mediation.

ADR — the court-alternative resolution family: arbitration (the private adjudication), mediation (the facilitated negotiation), conciliation (the mediation's diplomatic cousin), negotiation (the parties' direct settlement); the hybrid-and-annexed forms (the med-arb; the court-annexed mediation; the ODR — Unit 5). The why: the courts' cost-and-delay (the docket mathematics — the backlog's institutional reality); the party-autonomy (Contract-I's freedom, this semester); the expertise (the technical disputes' specialists); the confidentiality (the commercial-and-family privacy); the relations' preservation (the continuing-parties' interest — the traders, the families, the communities).