Multi-religious societies pushes jurists to analyze the rules of the new religious movements (NMR). The panel explores the self-organizational norms of NMR and their effectiveness in legal systems with an emic approach. The principle of self- normation allows each religious group to express its tradition and identity. The exclusive competence of religious organizations with regard to jurisdiction, legislation and administration is therefore the unfailing precondition for an independent exercise of their activities. These activities include, for example, the ability to resolve disputes before the competent religious bodies. This prerogative is claimed against the public institutions as a manifestation of their freedom. This perspective is reversed when the civil judges have to evaluate the behavior of the faithful and the regularity of the provisions of the religious authority in relation to the general principles of the civil law systems. In such cases, in fact, the evaluation is carried out according to ethical canons. For this reason, the panel intends to identify concrete answers through inter-ordinary dialogue and “negotiated” solutions to combine the two perspectives (emics/ethics) and overcome possible conflicts. These solutions enhance the self-regulatory tools of NMR (for example, secondary legislation) as an expression of the organizational autonomy generally recognized to this type of social formations. Chair: Miriam Abu Salem (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”) Speakers:Miriam Abu Salem (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”), Religions and Conflict. The case of faith-based approaches to dispute resolution Giancarlo Anello (Università di Parma), The sources of emic jurisdictions in Abrahamitic Religions: what room for etic regulations?Ludovica Decimo (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Organization, administration and operation’s rules of the Apostolic Church in ItalyAntonio Fuccillo (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”), Legal-economic Koinè and the Religious NomopoiesisLivia Saporito (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”), The backbone of the church: Women’s access to justice between State and religious law Francesco Sorvillo (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”), The Apostolic Church of God in Romania from the inside: the Italian experience of the Associations "Italian Pentecostal Territorial Community" and "Romanian Pentecostal Church Bethel – ETS”