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 with a 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 buildings and other sites with cultural/social significance. A sophisticated and sensitive approach which has been a catalyst for socioeconomic recovery, stability and resilience during the precarious aftermath of war and civil strife.

Our interdisciplinary approach improves social cohesion, builds trust, safeguards cultural heritage, and acknowledges the fluid nature of the 'everyday' whilst recognising the vital role memories play before, during and after violence.

The practice has developed a large client network, and a healthy readership and our research contributes to building more knowledge and understanding within the peacebuilding and humanitarian disciplines.

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 happy to share knowledge and exchange ideas, we have a useful educational programme and bespoke training that offer workshops, seminars and online guidance 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 Humanitarian brief

•The Creative processes of designing

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

Articles

Places Supporting People in Ukraine,

Featured, Failure & Frustration

Coastal Rowing as a Catalyst for Social Cohesion

A Place to be Adventurous

Seven Types of Courage

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Re-imagining a Sense of Place

Given the significance a ‘sense of place’ has on a community’s demographic (gender, age, class, religion, ethnicity, etc), individually,...

What We Remember is What We Are

“No One should delude themselves into thinking we all use it the same way. But just as we use words like love and hate without ever...

Fabricating Post-conflict Amnesia

Often, agencies see their responsibility towards historic buildings in anthropomorphic terms as performing surgery, breathing new life...

Everyday Consequences of City Life

Many in the past thought that cities “rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life” (Marx). Nowadays...

Mitigating a Lack of Trust

Watches, thermometers, fuel gauges, barometers, a compass and tape measures are all tools from which to understand, share and commonly...

Inch Garvie : A Scottish Island & UK Statues of Disrepute

Inch Garvie, is Gaelic in origin and means either "rough island" or "island of the rough place" . It the perfect place to relocate the...

The Places Within

A fabulous sculpture called Deconstruction by Tania Font as part of the Vila Casas collection. Tania's creations exploring Deconstruction...

Place-remaking, Place-building and Place-keeping

Post-crisis conditions as a result of conflict, natural disaster, criminal activity or pandemic are extremely tricky to fully comprehend...

Theory and Practice

A quick post to share with you an event that I've been invited to speak at. The Program on Governance and Local Development at the...

Mosul's Old Town Park Update

Due to be completed in a fortnight and on schedule, the Mosul, Old City Park in Iraq is taking shape. Vegetation is being planed and...

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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.