Maison de la Paix || Casa Universale delle Culture (EN)

 

 CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development.

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace.

The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts.

Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the “Maison des Alliances” – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace.

The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace".

The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples.

The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013).

The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée.

 

MeYouMe 2011 – Mediterranean Youth Meeting

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Cosenza | 31 October 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The 2011 edition of MeYouMe took place in Cosenza bringing together 200 youths from 18 different Countries. On this occasion, the MANY Network was launched – “Mediterranean Autonomous Network for Youth”.
The Fondazione Mediterraneo has supported this initiative through its programme of activities at the Mediterranean  youth centre.
It was a good example of synergy between the Italian Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation and its “Youth Network Minister of Labour”, who contributed to the success of the initiative.
President Capasso participated in the work reiterating the values and activities carried out by the Anna Lindh Foundation and the Italian Network (Rete Italiana). The Ministry of Labour promoted this initiative through an advertising campaign on major TV channels.

MeYouMe is all about meeting – an adventure on a return voyage – between  an I and a YOU, between ME and YOU! 
It is where the green of the earth meets the blue of the sea.
The sea is the Mediterranean: a crossroads for people, travel, economic exchange and cultural interaction. The earth is made of peoples, faces and the stories narrating the history of this sea, a sea they traverse and inhabit.

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Mediterranean Parliaments award a prize to the Fondazione Mediterraneo

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Palermo | 29 October 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

At the Plenary Session of the  Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM), convening  at the seat of the Regional Assembly of Sicily in the historical Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo, the outgoing PAM President, Abdelwahed Radi, awarded the PAM Prize to the Fondazione Mediterraneo. President Radi was recently elected as the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the international organization  that unites parliaments from all over the world.

The inscription reads, “On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, for its commitment to promoting intercultural dialogue throughout the Mediterranean and for its support towards the establishment and activities of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean”.

President Radi made the following remarks: “This [prize] is made in recognition of Michele Capasso’s having dedicated his life to building prosperity and democracy in the Mediterranean basis. He is a true soldier working relentlessly to achieve the goal of bringing peoples, civilizations and cultures closer together. This prize is only a small token compared to the enormous contribution made by Michele and he deserves much greater recognition for the quality and quantity of his action. It is therefore our wish that such recognition will soon be forthcoming”.

Congratulations were also received from delegations of various countries, including  from Michel Vauzelle, President of the PACA Region and the Jordanian President of PAM, Fayez Tarawneh.

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President Vauzelle celebrates 20 years of Fondazione Mediterraneo

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Palermo | 29 October 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

President of Region PACA – Provence, Alpes Marittimes et Cote d’Azur – Michel Vauzelle expressed his appreciation for the twenty years anniversary of Fondazione Mediterraneo.

“I’ve been knowing Michele Capasso for 20 years and together have been shared the same efforts for dialogue and peace in Mediterranean. First as Foreign Affairs Ministry and later as parliamentar, and as last, as President of a region deeply Mediterranean, I hope that the amazing work done by Michele Capasso and by Fondazione Mediterraneo can found the owed award.  In this crucial moment for the Mediterranean, person as Michele Capasso, are worthy for the establishment of peace and shared development.”

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Morocco celebrates 20 years of Fondazione Mediterraneo

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Palermo | 29 October 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Morocco Parliament president Abdelwahed Radi, Ambassador in Italy Hassan Abouyoub and the Moroccan parliamentars whom joined to the Mediterranean Parliamentar Assembly payed homage to Fondazione Mediterraneo and its president Michele Capasso in occasion of the twenty years anniversary from the institution’s establishment.

The APM General Secretary Sergio Piazzi declared:

“ Fondazione is a useful tool of dialogue between cultures and Mediterranean Parliamentar Assembly is proud to have as first observer  Fondazione which started to play an important role in the region.”.

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From left:
The Secretary General of the APM Sergio Piazzi, the President of the Moroccan Parliament and the Interparliamentary Union Abdelwahed Radi, President Michele Capasso and the Ambassador of Morocco in Italy Hassan Abouyoub.

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6th Plenary Meeting of Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly

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Palermo | 29 October 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

It took place in Palermo the 6th Plenary Meeting of Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly headed by Abdelwahed Radi.
Parliamentars of several Mediterranean Countries decided to celebrate the  21 March as “Mediterranean Day”, giving particular attention to migrants who are losing their life in the sea. In several countries, on March 21th events will took place.
The president of Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso – observer member -joined plenary meeting highlighting the historical importance of this period, characterized by “Arab Spring” and responsibilities of parliamentary “democratically” elected.
In this occasion President Capasso proposed to gather, in a special meeting ad “hoc”, the Assembly in occasion of year 2013, when the city of Naples will host the “Universal Forum of Cultures”.
APM thanked  to the Fondazione Mediterraneo’s whom hosted the assembly on june 2005.

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