Noah Salameh was born in 1952 in the Al-Aroub refugee camp in Palestine. He received his primary school education at UNRWA, and then enrolled in the UNRWA affiliated Vocational Training Center in Qalandia. After two years he was jailed for fifteen years and was released in 1985. Mr. Salameh studied at Bethlehem University where he earned a Bachelor degree in English Literature (with honors). Then he left for the United State and earned a Masters degree in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 1994. Upon his return to Palestine he was appointed the Director of Public Relations at the Palestinian Ministry of Labor and remained there until 1998. Then he joined the Ph.D. program in Conflict Resolution Studies at George Mason University in the United States and returned home in 2000. In the same year he founded the “Center of Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation” (CCRR), where he occupies the position of Executive Director and is in charge of programs of education for peace as well as skills of conflict resolution and dialogue for peace.