This book describes seven cases in which third-party intervention was employed to settle complex social and economic disputes. The authors provide detailed accounts of how mediation came about in each case, how it was conducted, the settlements that resulted, and the follow-up that was required.

Robert B. Goldmann is a program officer, Division of National Affairs, with the Ford Foundation. He has also served as deputy director of the Governor's Commission on Civil Disorders in New Jersey and as director of public affairs for the New York City Human Resources Ad' ministration.

Preface -- Introduction -- "This Is Our Land": The Mohawk Indians v. the State of New York -- Dispute Resolution in Prison: The California Experience -- The Snoqualmie River Conflict: Bringing Mediation into Environmental Disputes -- New Faces in the Neighborhood: Mediating the Forest Hills Housing Dispute -- Not Without Honor- A Prophet Even in His Own Country: The St. Louis Tenant Strike of 1969 -- The Real Against the Ideal- Making the Solution Fit the Problem: The Atlanta Public School Agreement of 1973 -- Desegregating the Schools in Dayton