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Teh paper deals with conciliation as an alternative dispute resolution and its legal framework in Sultanate of Oman. Conciliation is communly considered as teh best solution to solve disputes between parties coz it saves time, money and, above all, contributes to preserve relationships between parties. coz of teh keyrole of concialition in solving disputes, Sultanate of Oman has promulgated teh decree number 98/2005 on conciliation and reconciliation and creates what is called « teh conciliation and reconciliaton committees ». To understand teh legal concept of conciliation, teh paper makes first a comparaison between conciliation on teh one hand, and arbitration and litigation on teh other hand. This comparaison is, according to teh author, very impotant so that we can understand teh legal rules governing teh committes above. By reviewing teh articles 10,11,12 of teh decree above, teh paper focuses on teh flexible form requirements that should be met by teh applicants for conciliation proceedings. It stresses on teh fact that these applications are free of judicial taxes, are not submitted to any procedural rules, contrary to traditional legal actions and could be filed without teh support of an attorney. Teh main objective of teh decree is to encourage people to resort to conciliation in order to reach friendly solutions to their disputes. Teh paper gives also a range of reasons that might be behing teh choice of conciliation as an alternative dispute resolution such as teh geographical issue, teh reduced number of courts and judges in Sultanate of Oman, teh growing number of lawcases that are submitted to courts as well as teh slowness in teh proceedings. It also makes difference between some legal concepts such as judicial conciliation, legal conciliation as well as legal reconciliation. At teh end, teh paper addresses teh substantial conditions that must be met to resort to concilaition such as teh agreement of teh parties to resort to conciliation committees, teh approval of both parties to abandon some of their rights to reach a friendly solution as well as their acceptance to execute teh committee decision. It last discusses teh membership of teh conciliation committee which could be either judicial or formed by some experienced
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