Peter Salem has been with the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) since 1994, first as the Associate Director and since 2002, as the Executive Director. He has been instrumental in facilitating the discussion of important and sometimes controversial issues in the delivery of legal, therapeutic, mediation and other conflict management modes regarding family and child welfare issues. He is also a co-editor with Jay Folberg and Anne Milne of the Divorce and Family Mediation Handbook: Models Techniques and Applications (2004), and the recipient of the John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). He poignantly observes about his career that:
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