In the year, 2008, a tragedy took place in Cologne: a young man with Moroccan background was stabbed and killed at the age of 17. The offender, a German native, was acquitted. He acted in self-defence and the case was closed, but not for the young people of the district. A youth revolt broke out, justice was demanded and everyone realised that this incident marks a turning point. With the hope, that such an incident should not occur again a working group consisting of representative of the city, the police and social actors was formed to seek solutions to the alarming development of crime and extremism. One of them was Mimoun Berrisoun who provided the idea of building a peer to peer network of multipliers. Shortly afterwards a pilot project started that aims to train committed young people to resolve conflicts non-violently and to act with civil courage. Mathias Ferring a contact officer of Cologne and Manfred Kahl of the youth welfare office saw the potential and supported the idea since its inception.

 Through various incidents, issues like radicalisation, crime and discrimination were part of the daily agenda and the project actors realised that the schooling of young people was not sufficient and additional measures were needed. With the gained experience and knowledge, the motivated founder team kick-started an innovative project: