Peacebuilding Consultancy | Uniform November

Uniform November is a consultancy that aims to communicate, collaborate, and create responses to challenges within the humanitarian sector. We use our expertise and experience to guide humanitarian actors as they endeavour to support communities suffering from the upheavals created by conflict and climate change.

UNIFORM NOVEMBER is a professional practice and weblog based in Scotland. The practice is developed to offer, place and peacebuilding expertise.

We have 30 years of experience and have created a strategic approach to peacebuilding which frequently involves the adaptation and re-use of sites imbued with cultural/social significance. We offer a sophisticated and sensitive approach which acts as a catalyst for socioeconomic recovery, stability and resilience during the precarious aftermath of war and civil strife.

Our interdisciplinary approach encourages, social cohesion, builds trust, safeguards cultural heritage, and acknowledges the fluid nature of the 'everyday'. An approach that recognises the vital role that place, culture and memory play before, during and after conflict.

The practice has developed, a large client and partner network, our blog has a healthy and friendly readership, our research contributes to the knowledge base that helps inform professionals in the international peacebuilding and humanitarian sectors.

UNIFORM NOVEMBER has worked with the British Council, 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 are always working to improve and happy to share knowledge and exchange ideas, we have a useful educational programme and bespoke training opportunities. We offer workshops, seminars and online guidance on subjects such as:

•Team Building

•Project Management

•Creative Solutions

•Working with Communities

•The Re-use of Buildings

•The Power of Place in Business, Displacement and Peacebuilding

•The Potential of Crossdisciplinarity problem solving

•Understanding the Importance of the Everyday in humanity

•The Fundamentals of Peacebuilding

•Displacement and HLP

•Stakeholder Trust Building

•Mediation

•Protection of Heritage and Culture

•Approaches to Education (Learning Teaching and Assessment)

•Brief Development

•The Creative Process

•Working with Memory

•Modes of Memorialization

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

Articles

Cultural Heritage Protection & Embodied Energy

To Protect Cultural Heritage After Conflict You Have to Understand The Thought Behind Peacebuilding

You Don't Know What You Have ..Until You.. Lose It

Funding to Protect Cultural Heritage at Risk from Conflict

Where is Your Favourite Space?

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Violence & Place: Emotional Entanglements and Healing Spaces.

Architectural intervention and adaptive reuse explore the notion of topophilia and topophobia in other words, the desires and fears which...

Rizgari: A Bubble of Unsafe safety within a 'Peaceful' Post-Saddam landscape

In contexts where conflict and armed violence have abated, but structural violence endures, where do we draw the finish line? Rizgari, an...

Post-Conflict Recovery: We Need to Talk About The Adaptive Re-use of Place

Adaptively reusing socially significant buildings is an effective peacebuilding and recovery practice, it develops places as valuable...

Places Supporting People in Ukraine,

Where are the Hubs, Invincibility Stations & collective sites? With more than 400 aid agencies and actors active in Ukraine it can get a...

Featured, Failure & Frustration

The Feature It is always wonderful to feature in a publication, especially when the paper is written by someone you greatly respect. Dr...

Coastal Rowing as a Catalyst for Social Cohesion

For years now, I have been promoting my view that the practice and context of coastal rowing is a valued and cost-efficient method of...

A Place to be Adventurous

One day, I aim to create a place for mindful adventure to happen … The last few months have been inspiring and thought-provoking. I have...

Seven Types of Courage

Today, I was sent 'The Six Types of Courage' by a colleague. Their email made me think of the idea of courage and all the courageous...

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...

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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.