This book describes seven cases in which third-party intervention was employed to settle complex social and economic disputes ranging from conflict among developers, farmers, environmentalists, and others over the construction of a dam in Washington State.

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 -- The Contributors -- Introduction / Robert B. Goldmann -- 1. "This Is Our Land": '17te Mohaw~ Indians v. the State of:New York / Richard Kwartler -- 2. Dispute Resolution in Prison: The California Experience / Stephen Gillers -- 3. The Snoqualmie River Conflict: Bringing Mediation into Environmental Disputes / Lee Dembart and Richard Kwartler -- 4. New Faces in the Neighborhood: Mediating the Forest Hills Housing Dispute / Stephen Gillers -- 5. Not Without Honor-A Prophet Even in His Own Country: The St.Louis Tenant Strike of 1969 / Joel L. Fleishman -- 6. The Real Against the Ideal-Malting the Solution Fit the Problem: The Atlanta Public School Agreement of 1973 / Joel L. Fleishman -- 7. Desegregating the Schools in Dayton / Graham S. Finney.