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This research is one of the efforts to rediscover conceptual village sovereignty, which had faded and tended to disappear after the Republic of Indonesia era. The most significant indicator to see the existence of village sovereignty was village authority in dispute resolution, or enforcement of existing norms and developing naturally in those area. This research was conducted using a descriptive-qualitative approach, one of a kind of normative research which using juridical analysis as the basis for forming prescriptive aspects. This study reviews the historical aspects related to village sovereignty and dialectics to this day based on a multidisciplinary perspective and legal studies as the main base to determine its prescriptive aspects. As the results, history proves that since the royalty era until the colonial era the village was authorized to solve the problems of its people independently. Yet, entering the Republic of Indonesia era this authority was gradually amputated. The government finally began to realize the importance of being a village as an autonomous and self-sufficient area as before through Act No. 6 of 2014 concerning Villages. Through these regulations the village head has the authority and obligation to resolve community problems. The village head position becomes an Authoritative Mediator. Through this basis, the village head can actually form an alternative dispute resolution institution that has the authority to call, examine, mediate and resolve problems from the parties. Here later the alternative dispute resolution can be done by a mediation model and the position of the village head can be as an authoritative mediator. Henceforth, as a suggestion, it needs support from the government to prepare implementing regulations and also provide mediation training to the village heads and village officials who get delegations from the village head.