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

I am enthusiastic about explaining how I came to want to give Dialogue a broad place in schools, about the added value Dialogue offers in that setting and how it benefits students and our society.