当前,调解作为我国民间和司法程序上解决纠纷的一种最重要的手段,具有成本低、程序操作简单、建立和谐稳定的人际关系以及加强社会适应性和纠纷处理策略正当性等方面的优势。它在现行的解决纠纷的各种体制中起到最基础的作用。但目前随着人们法治意识的不断增强和改革的不断深入,社会矛盾也是各种各样,层出不穷,人民调解的工作也较之过去而言也面临着大量新的情况和问题。所以这就使得人们在调解和诉讼制度之间的衔接问题上面临着新的思考和探索。 At present, mediation, as one of the most important means of settling disputes in civil and judicial proceedings, has the advantages of low cost, simple procedure operation, establishment of harmonious and stable interpersonal relationship and strengthening of social adaptability and legitimacy of handling disputes. It plays the most fundamental role in the current system of dispute resolution. However, with the constant enhancement of people’s awareness of the rule of law and deepening of reforms, social conflicts are manifold and emerge in an endless stream. People’s mediation work also faces a large number of new situations and problems compared with the past. Therefore, people are facing new thinking and exploration on the interface between mediation and litigation.