Blog

2 December 2025

We are inviting organisations to play a central role in this landmark celebration by sponsoring a table or becoming a corporate partner for the event. A range of sponsorship opportunities is available, including table sponsorship and corporate partnership packages.

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.
Christina Bates, CFO at Allstate NI, Trustee of CDP, and advisory board member of the Fellowship Programme.
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.
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.