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Pete Desrochers is the president of the Alberta Arbitration and Mediation Society. He is one of Canada’s chartered mediators and a qualified arbitrator, as well as being a registered mediator and arbitrator in the United States. He has now completed over 3,800 mediations covering 13 countries, four continents, and 25 years.
His portfolio of high-profile mediations includes working with the U.S. soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Germany; a firefighters’ labor dispute; a wrongful death suit; several trade agreements between Asian countries; the murder of a celebrity, and the kidnapping of a child to Japan during a custody battle.
He is the founding director of “The Negotiators,” an arbitration and mediation firm operating both in the United States and Canada.
Corporately, he deals with workplace issues such as bullying, wrongful dismissal, contracts, and the alleged failures of parties to provide goods or services at the agreed price, in the agreed time, and of the agreed quality. In the last few years, Pete has been transitioning to conflict communication training programs for corporations, non-profit organizations, various Indigenous groups, and municipal governments.
Pete still does a few family mediations, focusing mainly on divorce or separation, wills and estates, as well as eldercare.
He has, on multiple occasions, been a presiding judge at the annual World University Mediation Championships in Brazil and in Europe. Pete is a certified hostage negotiator, and is currently completing his certification in dealing with sexual deviancy.