arbitration
noun
the hearing and determining of a dispute or the settling of differences between parties by a person or persons chosen or agreed to by them.
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But the mere fact that force is their sanction does not ipso facto dispose of diplomatic and arbitrational methods.
From The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade by John Mavrogordato