3.2 Literature Review

The map before the journey: the primary sources' survey (the statutes-and-rules; the cases — the mediated-settlement-and-arbitration-award jurisprudence); the secondary's survey (the books, the articles, the reports — the ADR literature's Nepali-and-comparative body); the gap's identification (the unanswered question — the review's purpose: showing what is known-and-unknown); the review's writing (the organised synthesis — the themes' arrangement, not the list-of-abstracts).