ABSTRACT
As Gary Craig, the President of the International Association for Community Development, so aptly pointed out in the Preface, commu nity development is practiced worldwide and in a huge variety of con texts. Most of those practitioners do not come from a strictly social work community development or community organizing background. Those who are employed by state or by local governments are limited in their ability to act as agents of social justice and social change, while
some of those who are employed by non-governmental organizations are poorly trained to effectively intervene in complex social problems. Moreover, the values of community development are not clear to many of them (Korazim-Körösy, 2000).
