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In our increasingly complex world, how does one engage in international dispute resolution? In their latest book, Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Andrea Kupfer Schneider explore all the modern processes used to handle and resolve international conflicts and disputes, combining analysis of formal public and private international law (e.g. formal adjudicative tribunals and arbitration) with less formal processes (diplomatic negotiations, mediation and newer hybrid fora for dispute resolution and peace seeking e.g. restorative and transitional justice). Adopting a socio-legal perspective of "process pluralism," the book uses case studies and examples of wicked problems (e.g. environmental issues, hybrid warfare and looted art) as well as international investment and ongoing intractable conflicts to focus on how international law and conflict resolution is actually conducted in our highly conflictual world. As they show one size will not fit all- modern dispute resolution requires a repertoire of "appropriate to the context" (ADR) processes. 

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