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Universal human values, hereafter referred to as UHVs, have become a new Phenomenon. In Higher Education of India under the provision of National Education Policy 2020. Higher education has a set of new approaches in pedagogical techniques and the content delivery stem. All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) is now working in tandem with the University Grant Commission (UGC) to reach the college and university teachers so that the content can easily percolate to the students of higher education in India. Pedagogical dynamics are visible in the planning, procedure, and method of content design and the content delivery design as well as the follow-up process design. The present article is a critical analysis of all the related aspects using value-based pioneering research in conflict management and for sustaining economic development in modern times. The learned readers are requested to use the Endnotes for connotative and denotative meanings of a few technical terms (Gaur et al., 2009) used hackneyed words in phrasal meanings based on the parlance of UHV contents for a better understanding of this chapter.

According to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., justice delayed is justice denied. Recently, delayed justice has become one of the biggest threats to mankind since it restricts access to justice. COVID-19’s technological issues left Indian and international judicial systems in chaos and unable to address the problem. This allowed online dispute resolution (ODR) platforms to grow, which cured slow justice. As the disease spreads, many individuals have lost their employment. Private sector workers face volatility and uncertainty, and the financial market is poor. This darkness will take time to settle. But what about the resulting disagreements?

The COVID-19 epidemic prompted a new legal protocol. A virtual courthouse allows real-time case hearings and rulings. Conflicts that arise soon after COVID-19 may be resolved via ADR. ADR is only operating at a fraction of its ability due to isolation and confinement. Innovating the conflict resolution ecosystem with technology is the future of justice. ODR or electronic alternative dispute resolution (e-ADR) leads to this global trend. After seeing its potential, government agencies have adopted the ODR programme in recent years. Niti Ayog’s ODR manual details the roadmap and specifics of this conflict resolution approach.

ODR is still in its infancy, hence this study focuses on its legal foundation. The chapter also highlights ODR-coordinated projects. The report also evaluates ODR framework shortcomings and suggests measures to bridge them to establish a strong, effective, and fast justice system for one of the world’s largest democracies.

Disaster management often faces missing data replaced by biased approximations. For example, a lack of randomised testing over the general population during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic created biased data regarding its incidence. This chapter describes the problem and its solution from the Econometrics literature, unbeknownst to epidemiologists and public health professionals. Our model has a choice equation and an outcome equation to overcome the bias measured by the ‘inverse Mill’s ratio’ (IMR). We illustrate using state-level sampling to create a large sample of data and report forecasts of COVID-19 deaths. Since using the IMR reduces bias and improves out-of-sample forecasts, it has broader applicability in disaster management. Disasters like droughts, floods, and earthquakes have socio-economic consequences involving choice probabilities by human agents.