Blog

17 November 2025

The Fellowship Programme’s November session brought together our Fellows to explore what it truly means to guide organisations through complexity, disruption and rapid change.
Leadership is changing, and we must too evolve the ways we nurture it. In Northern Ireland, where collaboration and dialogue remain the cornerstones of progress, the Centre for Democracy and Peace Fellowship Programme shines as a model for how business, politics, and civic society can come together to shape a better future.
Christina Bates, CFO at Allstate NI, Trustee of CDP, and advisory board member of the Fellowship Programme.
It is just over one week since our Fellows embarked on the first of their two residentials of the 2025/26 Fellowship Programme. We want to take this moment to showcase what our Fellows got up to and to thank every facilitator who contributed to a fantastic week in Oxford.
An influential group of business leaders from across Northern Ireland have come together to launch the fifth year of the acclaimed Centre for Democracy and Peace Fellowship Programme.
Twenty-eight leaders from across Northern Ireland have been named as the newest cohort in the Centre for Democracy and Peace’s Fellowship Programme.
The Centre for Democracy and Peace has opened applications for its Fellowship Programme 2025-26 to address real-world challenges and equip Fellows with practical skills in complex decision-making, design thinking, and collaboration, which are essential for navigating today’s economic, political, and social landscape.