* Андрей Андреевич Бадмаев, канд. ист. наук, старший научный сотрудник, Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН, РФ, 630090, Новосибирск, пр. <...> Лаврентьева, 17 e-mail: badmaevaa@ngs.ru Статья посвящена традициям разрешения конфликтов у бурят XVIII–XIX вв. <...> Показано, что в условиях традиционного общества было два пути для примирения: внесудебное, когда агрессор, осознавая порочность своего поступка, приносил извинения жертве, и та прощала его; судебное, осуществляемое судом инородческих начальников. <...> Данный институт был освящен традиционным мировоззрением, которое, поддерживая среди народа авторитет судей и инородческих начальников, признавало верховенство мифического суда небожителей и духов над их судом. <...> Lavrentyeva str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia, e-mail: badmaevaa@ngs.ru Issues related to the study of methods of social confl icts resolution remain understudied in the Buryat ethnographical literature. <...> The purpose of the present research is to reveal traditions of handling the confl icts among the Buryats in the XVIII-XIX centuries. <...> There were various types of social collisions: some of them were intergroup and even interethnic confl icts, while others were intragroup (including family confl icts). <...> In a traditional society there were two possible ways of reconciliation: extrajudicial (when the aggressor admitted depravity of his or her action, apologized to his or her victim and received forgiveness) and judicial (held by the Court of the non-Buryat chiefs). <...> Aggressors and their victims belonged to the local groups interested in the prompt resolution of confl icts. <...> The Buryat courts had the estate character and were totally controlled by the “indigenous chiefs”, therefore all levels of this judicial system were aimed at achieving reconciliation. <...> Investigation, judgment and execution were held by the “indigenous chiefs”. <...> This social institute <...>