Humanitarian agencies have for long been the only provider soft life-sustaining aid to people in conflict situations that even governments prefer to avoid. This unique access to the people in conflict areas allows them the opportunity that governments and other NGOs have not: to conduct field diplomacy by beginning to sow peace in small communities. Though most aid agencies do not have peace-building and field diplomacy as part of their mandate, it is apparent, now, that aid delivery alone is just but a part of what they can do.  This book calls for aid agencies do not have peace-building and field diplomacy as part of their mandate, it is apparent, now, that aid delivery alone is just but a part of what they can do. This book calls for aid agencies to go beyond aid delivery, while expounding on relevant areas of humanitarian work, such as the elements of field diplomacy, psycho-social concerns of aid-workers, and a spirituality of humanitarian work. "Fr Opongo addresses a fundamental gap in the work of most aid agencies. They have more access to the people suffering from these conflict situations than any governments including their own. That they should prepare themselves to act as experienced reconciliation workers would contribute at least as significantly as their aid work itself." Prof. Raymond G. Helmick, S.j., Senior Associate, 2000-2004, Program in Preventive Diplomacy, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.