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Friendly settlement of international disputes: a new paradigm of international dispute resolution
The last few decades in international dispute resolution have witnessed what may be called the expansion of friendly settlement of disputes in different procedures. A trend of alternativité common for domestic jurisdictions, begins to invade international justice, too, where a rise of non-contentious procedures is observed in a number of international courts and tribunals, primarily - the European Court of Human Rights. Non-contentious procedures involve different kinds of settlement tools used in international bodies, including UN committees, WTO, ICSID, etc. The article focuses mainly on the nature, types, conditions and legal effects of non-contentious and friendly settlement procedures used by the European Court of Human Rights, with a special attention paid to their advantages for the parties and the Court, and the difficulties encountered in the course of the further implementation of such procedures results.