Our latest Fellowship Programme session was hosted by FinTrU on February 22. We are grateful to deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn MP, and the US Consul General James Applegate for contributing to the...
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Centre for Democracy and Peace Building Annual Report 2022 – 2023
CHAIR’S REMARKS This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in N Ireland/Ireland, which was been celebrated by the visitations and addresses by current and former Presidents of the United States of America, current and former Prime...
Hiroshima: City of Peace Study Visit
CDPB collaborates with the UME Oleander Initiative to deliver the Art, Memory and Peace Programme in Hiroshima, Japan. On the 26 February, four delegates from Northern Ireland, Oxford and New York gathered in Hiroshima, Japan, to embark on a six day exploration of the...
Political, business and civic leaders graduate from prestigious Fellowship Programme as Northern Ireland gears up to celebrate Good Friday Agreement Anniversary
Fellows attended sessions in Belfast, Dublin, and Oxford as part of the programme backed by prominent Northern Irish business leaders, the Department for Foreign Affairs and the Irish American Partnership. Leaders in politics, business, and civic society in Northern...
TEDxStormont set to return to Parliament Buildings
TEDxStormont is set to return to Parliament Buildings on Saturday 25 March with a stellar line up including globally renowned cellist Patrick Dexter, Sky News Senior Ireland Correspondent David Blevins, Principal of Hertford College, University of Oxford Tom Fletcher,...
How Leadership can overcome complexity
The Centre for Democracy and Peace Building Fellowship (CDPB) is full steam ahead for another year and Fujitsu NI is delighted to be a part of this fantastic initiative once more as it moves into its third year of nurturing local leaders. The Fellowship Programme is...
Lord John Alderdice receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Lord John Alderdice has been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists during their annual awards ceremony. The awards mark the highest levels of excellence and achievement within the field of psychiatry. Lord Alderdice...
Twenty-five leaders from politics, business and civic society in Northern Ireland unveiled for prestigious Fellowship
Twenty-five leaders from politics, the business community and civic society here, have been selected for the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building’s 2022 Fellowship programme. The Fellows, unveiled today at an event at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, will engage...
Fellowship for Northern Ireland’s political, business, and civic leaders opens for applications
Launching amid another Stormont impasse, the programme equips aspiring leaders here with the skills to lead Northern Ireland forward Applications are now open for the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building Fellowship, a prestigious programme which seeks to produce...
Centre for Democracy and Peace Building Annual Report 2021 – 2022
CHAIR’S REMARKS At this juncture in global political affairs and international relations there has never been a greater need across the world for people to work for democracy, reconciliation and peacebuilding. We have seen such efforts blossom over the last 25 years...