MARE NOSTRUM AWARD CEREMONY 2015

Roma | 15 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The award ceremony of the VIII Edition of “Mare Nostrum Award 2015” took place in Rome.
The Mare Nostrum Awards was created by “Grimaldi Magazine” and it’s dedicated to the promotion of the “Sea Highways”.  The aim is to promote this exceptional opportunity of exchanges, connections and sustainable development for all the countries of the Mediterranean area. The amount of the Mare Nostrum Awards, as every year, is of 50.000 euros to be divided between the first five classified.
The International Jury of the Prize is composed of important exponents of the journalistic and the cultural world. The President Folco Quilici is placed side by side of, among the others,  Vassiliki Armogeni, Greek journalist of the Efoplistis magazine, Michele Capasso, President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Diana De Feo, RAI journalist, Mimmo Jodice, photographer, Paul Kyprianou, European Shipping President of the RoRo Association.  The Secretary of the Prize is Luciano Bosso, journalist and director of Mare Nostrum, magazine edited by Grimaldi Lines.
The international jury headed by Folco Quilici, writer and director, has assigned the prizes to the written ones on the sea of Piero Ottone, to the vision of Cesar Urrutia who forecasts the transfer of  all the transport on rubber to alternative ways by 2030, to the sustainables proposals of Carlo Alessandro Argenzio and Giuseppe Speranza, to Rossend Domenech and to Alessandro Sansoni that conducted an analysis on the geopolitical role of Italy in Mare Nostrum, recognizing the urgency of a planning of investments above all in the harbour field.

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THE BOOK LA GRANDE MÉDITERRANÉE TO MARRAKECH

Marrakech | 12 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

During  a meeting between the president Michele Capasso, the president of the UCAM Abdellatif Miraoui and the vice president Bougadir Blaïd the decision of print a special edition of the book "La Grande Méditerranée" has been taken. The new edition will include the lectio magistralis of president Capasso and the relative notes and will be dedicated to students and professors of the University of Cadi Ayyad.

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THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO IS IN GRIEF FOR FOUAD ALLAM, ONE OF THE FIRST FOUNDERS OF THE INSTITUTION

Roma | 10 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On Wednesday 10 June Khaled Fouad Allam tragically left us in a hotel in Rome, after have been affected by a sudden illness.
He was an Algerian sociologist who worked in the University of the Studies of Trieste, and was also deputy for the Ulivo political party in 2006, during the XIV legislature.
I still remember the first time that I saw him. It was 1994 and along with Predrag Matvejevic', Claudio Magris, Vittorio Nisticò, Igor Man, Nedim Gursel, Gerardo Marotta and other friends we prepared the programs of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the initiatives in favour of the populations of Ex-Yugoslavia, affected by one of the greatest tragedies after the second world war.
Fouas was immediately one of us: with his great knowledge that was also method and was accompanied by intellectual honesty, first of all, it was impossible to induce the people to compare with superiority in confronts of the others.
He was an extremely cordial person and his strong French accent was a characteristic of his speeches.
Khaled Fouad Allam has been an example of dialogue, peace, intellectual and moral integrity. In spite of his tragical death, the lessons he gave to use are still valid, and these lessons were spreaded not only through  his job – the University, the conferences, the political activity, the conventions – but also through his behaviour, always calm, respectful, competent, opened towards the highest manifestations of the humanity and critic regarding every form of discrimination or violence.
We will keep the heritage which he has left to us.

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ONE MINUTE FOR PEACE

Napoli | 08 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

AZIONE CATTOLICA ITALIANA - AZIONE CATTOLICA ARGENTINA
FIAC International Forum Azione Cattolica
UMOFC World Union of Catholic Women Organization

Francis Pope, after the pilgrimage in Holy Land, invited in His “house” the President of Israel and the Palestinian Authority for a prayer meeting for peace on the 8 june of 2014 in Vatican in Rome.
The Pope asked to the church to pray for this unprecedent meeting which got the world attention. On June 6 of 2014 the initiative “ONE MINUTE  POR LA PAZ-  ONE MINUTE FOR PEACE” was launched, in preparation of the meeting sponsored by the Pope. We gathered in a simple, short and accessible to all prayer.

The applications to the event has been significant in several countries, in particular, through Facebook were collected almost 10.000 applications in a short time.
All over this year we remembered what Francis Pope said on the 8 June of 2014:

“Our meeting for the claim of peace in Holy Land, in Middle East and in the whole world has been accompanied by the prayer of people of different religions: people who prayed for this meeting and now are bond to us in the same invocation. It is a meeting which is a response to the warm desire to people who is struggling for peace and dream about where men and women could live together as friends and not as enemies”.

“Questo nostro incontro di invocazione della pace in Terra Santa, in Medio Oriente e in tutto il mondo è accompagnato dalla preghiera di tantissime persone, appartenenti a diverse culture, patrie, lingue e religioni: persone che hanno pregato per questo incontro e che ora sono unite a noi nella stessa invocazione. È un incontro che risponde all’ardente desiderio di quanti anelano alla pace e sognano un mondo dove gli uomini e le donne possano vivere da fratelli e non da avversari o da nemici.”

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