Through an empirical study of the state-sponsored community mediation programme in Sri Lanka known as Mediation Boards (MBs), this paper examines this local-level mediation as a hybrid practice. Established as an Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism, the MBs were initiated as a more effective and efficient alternative to the formal courts for local and minor disputes. In the case-study conducted on an MB, it was found that there is extensive replication of formal legal procedures alongside the mediators’ own cultural interpretations of disputes. By locating this hybrid practice theoretically within the framework of legal pluralism and its broad definition of law, an attempt is made to expand the scope of the pluralistic nature of law not only to include alternative forms of law, but also to understand the dynamic interactions between multiple normative orderings.

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社区调解作为一种混合实践：斯里兰卡调解委员会的案例

通过对斯里兰卡国家资助的社区调解项目（称为调解委员会 (MBs)）的实证研究，本文将这种地方层面的调解视为一种混合实践。作为一种替代性争议解决机制，MBs 最初是作为正式法院处理地方和轻微争议的更有效和高效的替代方案而启动的。在对 MB 进行的案例研究中，发现除了调解员自己对争议的文化解释外，正式法律程序的广泛复制。通过在理论上将这种混合实践置于法律多元化及其广泛的法律定义的框架内，试图扩大法律的多元化性质的范围，不仅包括法律的替代形式，