Context
Between 2003 and 2016, a group of co-facilitators and I and facilitated dialogue programs in neighbourhoods and vocational schools in Rotterdam.
Aims
These dialogic interventions aimed to de-escalate tensions and create mutual understanding, thus restoring or building relationships. After several neighbourhood interventions the City of Rotterdam asked us to facilitate a dialogue between a group of street youngsters and police officers of Delfshaven, an old, notorious neighbourhood in the city.