just human relationships are therefore one of the keys to development,and dialogue needs to be at the heart of the development relationship to encourage exchange, agreement, and partnership. For NGO and other development organisations in particular, this question of forming just relations is crucial.
As charles abrams has observed, effective co-operation between development professionals and the communities with which they work depends on recognising a place for the 'expert' from outside the community alongside the 'inpert' from inside it, and achieving the right balance between the two (abrams, 1964).