NATIONAL CURRICULUM GUIDELINES FOR LAW COURSES: THE INSERTION OF CONSENSUS CONFLICT RESOLUTION METHODS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DIALOGUE CULTURE

Abstract

Objectives: The present work aims to promote a reflection on the inclusion of Consensual Methods of Conflict Resolution in the National Curriculum Guidelines (DCNs) of Undergraduate Law Courses – Resolution CNE/CES nº 5/2018, with the changes introduced by Resolution CNE/ CES nº 2/2021 –, as mandatory content and practice, aiming at building a Culture of Dialogue.

Methodology: The research was documental and bibliographical, qualitative in nature, exploratory in nature, working with deductive reasoning. The question that sought to be answered concerns the degree of insertion of Consensual Methods of Conflict Resolution in the current DCNs of Law Courses and the possible impact that such a measure may have on the construction of the Culture of Dialogue.

Result: It is concluded that, with the implementation of the current DCNs, there is a legal requirement that Law students start to study, with greater theoretical and practical emphasis, the Consensual Methods of Conflict Resolution, giving rise to the modifyng the culture of managing of legal conflicts from a judicial sentence perspective to a consensus perspective.

Contributions: The research showed that the topic is of great academic and professional relevance. And that, from the publication of the new DCNs, the Consensual Methods of Conflict Resolution, which were already characterized as a public policy of the Brazilian state, now become a mandatory part of the training of all future professionals in the field of Law.