改革开放以来,人民法院的民事纠纷案件逐年递增,积案的压力迫使法官们常年处于超负荷运转的困境之中。与此相反,曾经在历史上发挥了重大作用的、独具中国特色的人民调解制度却倍受冷落,人民调解员几乎无案可办。其成因是很复杂的。笔者认为,有条件地实行人民调解制度前置,才能充分地发挥人民调解组织的作 Since the introduction of the reform and opening up, the number of civil disputes in people’s courts has been increasing year by year, and the pressure of accumulated cases has forced the judges to be in a predicament of overloading. On the contrary, the people’s mediation system that once played a significant role in history and has unique Chinese characteristics has been neglected and the mediators of the people can hardly do anything. The reason is very complicated. The author believes that people’s mediation organizations can fully play the role of people’s mediation organizations