Problem-solving workshops represent a social-psychological approach to conflict resulution, in which members of conflicting national groups engage in unofficial, direct communication under the guidance of social scientists. Setting, agenda, ground rules, procedures, and interventions are designed to promote an analytical orientation. After describing a hypothetical workshop, the paper focuses on the theoretical assumptions of the approach, the change strategies it employs, and its relationship to political processes. Among issues considered are the potentially conflicting requirements for producing changes and for transferring such changes to the policy process; the criteria for selecting participants; the advantages of focusing on specific functional problems; the use of academic auspices and norms in creating a novel context to counteract conflict norms; the role of third party interventions in the form of theoretical inputs, content observations, and process observations; and the possible contributions of workshop products to pre-negotiation, negotiation, and post-negotiation processes.