The problem‐solving workshop is an approach to international conflict resolution based on intervention at the intergroup level and designed to provide inputs into policy processes. The pilot workshop described there included Israeli and Palestinian participants, meeting with a team of social scientists who served as a third party. Some of the features of the workshop included use of separate preworkshop sessions with each party to focus on internal group processes; induction of communication marked by an analytic, problem approach to the conflict to replace the legalistic, conflict‐expressive approach that generally characterizes communication among conflicting parties; process observations from an intergroup (rather than interpersonal) perspective, linking ongoing interactions to the dynamics of the intergroup conflict; and emphasis on symbolic issues and questions of national identity. Among the issues discussed are definition of the parties to the conflict, characteristics of participants, the context for communication, relationships between intragroup and intergroup processes, nature of the third party and types of interventions, and the relationship of changes manifested in the workshop to changes transferred outside of that sett