UNIFORM NOVEMBER

Peacebuilding through Heritage Reuse, HLP or Modes of Memorialisation

UNIFORM NOVEMBER is a humanitarian consultancy working to build peace through our expertise in post-conflict reconstruction. We use architecture, place and space as tools for resilience, transition and recovery.

Uniform November is a Scottish-based consultancy that develops projects that support sustainable livelihoods whilst increasing human capital, improving access to cultural heritage, promoting good governance, enhancing safety, reducing the risk of further violence and encouraging a renewed sense of place in communities reeling from conflict.

UNIFORM NOVEMBER is a humanitarian consultancy working to build peace through our expertise in post-conflict reconstruction. We use architecture, place and space as tools for resilience, transition and recovery.

Uniform November is a Scottish-based consultancy that develops projects that support sustainable livelihoods whilst increasing human capital, improving access to cultural heritage, promoting good governance, enhancing safety, reducing the risk of further violence and encouraging a renewed sense of place in communities reeling from conflict.

The consultancy is proud to deliver humanitarian projects whilst building a dynamic client network and maintaining a healthy blog readership which is a useful conduit for employment and collaboration in the peacebuilding sector. The consultancy has worked with The British Council, The HALO Trust, UN agencies such as the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), UNESCO, UNMAS and UN-HABITAT. The practice has also worked with many stakeholder groups, community groups, military groups, tribal chiefs and local NGOs such as The Island Foundation (Indonesia) and Al Gahd (Mosul, Iraq).

Over the years Uniform November has designed and built initiatives such an urban park for the youth in Mosul (Iraq), by reusing a site used by ISIS, the project was funded by The HALO Trust and UNMAS. We have mapped sites of violence in Mosul and TAL AFAR, Northern Iraq (a field recognisance mission for IOM), Uniform November has worked with Internally displaced people (IDP) in official and unofficial IDP Camps in Iraq and Kurdistan assessing what Housing, Land and Property (HLP) challenges they face as part of IOM's resettlement initiative. We have supported UNESCO and ICCROM in their large scale project to "Revive the Spirit of Mosul" giving expertise to Iraqi Architects and Engineers on re-using cultural significant buildings damaged through war, understanding international peacebuilding fundamentals and the importance of memorialization as a trauma-informed practice. We have given training to IOM local and international staff on the effects of post-conflict memory, place and persecution. The consultancy is contracted by the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund (CPF) to provide assessment and guidance on Large Grant applications of up to £ 2 million, we have an R&D project assessing the impact of ‘everyday buildings’ with cultural significance and provide education on the adaptive reuse of buildings, international peacebuilding and cultural heritage, project brief development and modes of memorialisation.  

The consultancy is proud to deliver humanitarian projects whilst building a dynamic client network and maintaining a healthy blog readership which is a useful conduit for employment and collaboration in the peacebuilding sector. The consultancy has worked with The British Council, The HALO Trust, UN agencies such as the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), UNESCO, UNMAS and UN-HABITAT. The practice has also worked with many stakeholder groups, community groups, military groups, tribal chiefs and local NGOs such as The Island Foundation (Indonesia) and Al Gahd (Mosul, Iraq).

Over the years Uniform November has designed and built initiatives such an urban park for the youth in Mosul (Iraq), by reusing a site used by ISIS, the project was funded by The HALO Trust and UNMAS. We have mapped sites of violence in Mosul and TAL AFAR, Northern Iraq (a field recognisance mission for IOM), Uniform November has worked with Internally displaced people (IDP) in official and unofficial IDP Camps in Iraq and Kurdistan assessing what Housing, Land and Property (HLP) challenges they face as part of IOM's resettlement initiative. We have supported UNESCO and ICCROM in their large scale project to "Revive the Spirit of Mosul" giving expertise to Iraqi Architects and Engineers on re-using culturally significant buildings damaged through war, understanding international peacebuilding fundamentals and the importance of memorialization as a trauma-informed practice. We have given training to IOM local and international staff on the effects of post-conflict memory, place and persecution. The consultancy is contracted by the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund (CPF) to provide assessment and guidance on Large Grant applications of up to £ 2 million, we have an R&D project assessing the impact of ‘everyday buildings’ with civic significance and provide education on the adaptive reuse of buildings, international peacebuilding and cultural heritage, project brief development and modes of memorialisation.