1st Edition

Roundtable Justice: Case Studies In Conflict Resolution

By Robert B. Goldman Copyright 1981

    For close to a decade, the Ford Foundation has supported a variety of efforts to advance both knowledge about and the use of alternatives to the adversary process for the settlement of disputes. The Center for Dispute Settlement of the American Arbitration Association; the In· stitute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution in New York City; the Center for Community Justice in Washington, D.C.; the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington; and the Office of Environmental Mediation at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin have played a major role in advancing the state of the art in the disposition of major disputes as well as in introducing mechanisms for grievance management and conflict resolution.

    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.

    Biography

    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.