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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Prospecting for Those Valuable Ideas

It goes without saying that in these testing times where idea generation and problem-solving skills are critical, it is important to stay...

DID WE DO THIS?

As uncomfortable as it may be, the message scrolled on that wall in Beirut might as well read, ‘WE DID THIS’, we all should take some...

Medical Care for Sick & Disabled Buildings

There are 3 reasons to care for ageing, sick or disabled buildings. Firstly, they are packed with embodied energy, secondly, they are...

Trust Shared Responsibilities

Three months ago thousands responded to a post I wrote: “I Don’t Want to Go Back to How it Was Before Covid19”. There were hundreds of...

Trust in Networks of People

We can build better resilience to the devastation brought about by the likes of COVID 19, conflict or natural disasters. By developing a...

Contentious Statues: Skeletons in Cupboards

‘Having a skeleton in the cupboard,’, implies having an embarrassing or unpleasant secret about something that happened in the past. It...

Limitations of Community

In testing times like these, it is a liberating necessity to undo the constraints of tired terms such as ‘community’. Perhaps by...

A Response to Upheaval & Place

Image By Artist: Mathieu Bernard-Reymond from his amazing Disparitions Series Place is a critical element within society and business...

A Valuable Mediation Resource

“Sometimes people need a mediator with the relevant experience to get the most out of a project and those involved” FMH I offer a...

Patii: New Team Member

Very Please to welcome Patrycja Perkiewicz (Patii) to the UNIFORM NOVEMBER team. Patii has researched for year the relation between...

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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.