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Peacebuilding through Heritage, HLP or Modes of Memorialisation

Delivering projects:

In step with the peacebuilding process whilst acknowledging the intricacies of conflict

Recognising heritage and its value to cultural systems, nation-building and social reconstruction.

Advocating the social-economic potential of developing culturally significant sites after catastrophes

Addressing HLP challenges during recovery and stabilization stages after conflict or other forms of violence.

Developing trauma-informed approaches dealing with the memories of disaster, political violence and the entangled emotions of post-conflict reconciliation.

Heritage & Memories of Violence

UNIFORM NOVEMBER was launched by Frazer MacDonald Hay in 2016. Since then the consultancy has worked with the British Council, The Halo Trust, UK and international Universities, UN agencies such as the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), UNSCO, International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), UNMAS and UNHABITAT. It has also looked with Locals NGO's such as The Island Foundation (Indonesia), and Alghad (Iraq)

We are always working to improve, share knowledge and exchange ideas, we have a useful educational programme and bespoke training opportunities. We offer workshops, seminars and online guidance on :

•The Fundamentals of Peacebuilding

•The Intricacies of Conflict

•Co-Creative Solutions

•Defining Community

•The Re-use of Buildings

•The Power of Place Peacebuilding

•The Potential of Crossdisciplinarity problem solving

•Understanding the Importance of the Everyday

•HLP Challenges within the displacement

•Stakeholder management

•Mediation

•Peacebuilding and Protection of Cultural Heritage

•Education

•Working with Memory

•Modes of Memorialization

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

Articles

Understanding Peace & Conflict Helps Protect Cultural Heritage

GAZA's Remains Should Stand

The Destructive Age of Urban Reconstruction after Warfare

A New Year’s Reflection on War and Peace

Preparing for a Positive and Productive New Year

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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...

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...

Non-buildings of Cultural Significance

These beguiling images of the built environment are from an exhibition called, 'Facades', by French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy....

““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.