Peacebuilding Consultancy | Uniform November

Uniform November is a consultancy that aims to communicate, collaborate, and create responses to challenges within the humanitarian sector. For over 7 years, Uniform November has helped position Frazer and like-minded colleagues as specialists that use the built environment, education, modes of memorialisation, peacebuilding theory and practice to guide humanitarian actors, stakeholders and support communities suffering from the effects of conflict and climate change upheaval.

UNIFORM NOVEMBER is a professional practice and weblog based in Scotland and developed to offer place and peacebuilding expertise, working to improve social cohesion, address memorialization after violence, develop climate change risk mitigation and explore creative solutions to building re-use and social adaptation to vulnerable conditions.

The practice has developed a large client network, and readership that is a source of knowledge development in the peacebuilding sector.

UNIFORM NOVEMBER has worked with The Halo Trust, Universities and UN agencies such as the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), UNMAS and UNHABITAT

We have developed an educational programme and Bespoke training that offers workshops, seminars and consultation on subjects such as:

•Working with Memory

•The Re-use of Buildings

•The Power of Place in Peacebuilding

•The Potential of Crossdisciplinarity

•Modes of Memorialization

•Understanding the Importance of the Everyday

•The Fundamentals of Peacebuilding

•Working with Communities

•Displacement and HLP

•Trust Building

•Everyday Memories of Violence

•Heritage and conservation within the Built Environment

•Approaches to Education

•Understanding the Brief

•The Creative processes of designing

The UNIFORM NOVEMBER blog is a knowledge transfer feed aimed at developing collaboration, dialogue and awareness...

Articles

Introducing Project: Beyond Concrete

Uniform November is proud to introduce the project Beyond Concrete: Everyday Space in Gaza by our Editorial Board Member, Architect...

A Place for The Mundane to Reach the Monumental.

Building a beacon to mental wellbeing and escape on a remote Scottish Island - Enjoy the fact that the beacon is made using reclaimed...

Concrete in Urban Warfare & Peacebuilding

After reading a fascinating paper titled, Concretising conflict by Deen Sharp I have been reflecting on my work in Iraq and other...

Displaced People Reusing Buildings

Erbil Urban Site During the last 10 years, there has been an increased interest in testing, shaping and re-shaping the built environment...

People in Places Between Humanity, State, Law & Politics

Image by Frazer Macdonald Hay It is hard to appreciate the scale and realities of the global refugee situation, most are unaware of the...

An Uncomfortable Framing of The Most Heinous

Image Society has to wrestle back the meaning of genocide, restore its status and rescue it from triviality and commodification in the...

Befriending our Existing Concrete

Shall we not squander the embodied energy*, social meaning and memories of concrete or post-industrial buildings through aesthetic biases...

An Introduction to ReStart Ukraine

Allow me to introduce you to ReStart Ukraine - A immerging collective of 9 clusters (Ref Image above) that propose that the , "New...

"I wore my anti-sniper shoes every time I was in Sarajevo"

Surely violence would inhibit creativity - Being creative is the last thing one might think about in an environment where conflict,...

The Everyday Benefit of Reflexivity

Reflexivity is the process of becoming self-aware. Humanitarian actors and those they seek to support are often encouraged to make...

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““whatever is true for space and time, this much is true for place: we are immersed in it and could not do without it. To be at all - to exist in any way – is to be somewhere, and to be somewhere is to be in some kind of place”.

"No one therefor can conceive anything, but they must conceive it in some place”.

Owner:

F.M.H..... MLitt Peace & Conflict, Msc Architectural Conservation BA (Hons) Int. Architecture; MCSD, PgC TLHE

F.M.H is a Post-conflict, consultant - Specializing in Social Cohesion, DDR, Memorialization, Architectural Conservation, Housing Land and Property (HLP) issues.