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.

 

EUROMESCO ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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Barcelona | 18 June 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The EuroMeSCo Annual Conference was held in Barcelona which brought together over 160 researchers, decision-makers, academics and representatives of civil society from 25 countries in the Euro-Mediterranean area to analyze the main issues that are at the basis of Euro-Mediterranean relations.
This conference also examined the policies and strategies developed by the southern Mediterranean countries towards the EU and other partners.
The conference was organized by the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed)
The Fondazione Mediterraneo, co-founder of the network, and the Anna Lindh Italia Federation participated in the work.

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POPE FRANCIS RECEIVES THE VOLUME "NOSTRO MARE NOSTRO" BY MICHELE CAPASSO WITH THE PREFACE OF CARDINAL PAROLIN

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Rome | 18 June 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Pope Francis received the volume Nostro Mare Nostro donated by president Michele Capasso.
The Pope wanted to share the gift received with the section "Migrants and Refugees" directed by the Under-Secretary P. Fabio Baggio C.S. which underlined how "the foreword of the Eminent Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, wisely highlights the commitment - first of all of life and then of narration - of the author Michele Capasso, which is inscribed in the rejection of the logic of waste and globalization of indifference, in the hope that the Mediterranean Sea can become a frontier of peace".
President Capasso thanked the Pope and said he was flattered that this appreciation took place on the eve of the Pope's trip to Naples, in which themes coherent with the thirty-year-old action that Capasso himself leads unstoppably - at the head of the Fondazione Mediterraneo - will be addressed. for the promotion of dialogue, hybridisation and peace in the Mediterranean.

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PRESIDENT SILAJDZIC CELEBRATES THE 30th ANNUAL OF FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO

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Hague | 14 June 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The emeritus president of Bosnia and Herzegovina Haris Silajdžić during a meeting with the president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso recalled the fundamental moments of the war in former Yugoslavia and the personal commitment of President Capasso and the Fondazione Mediterraneo in helping innocent victims of the greatest tragedy after the Second World War.

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MICHELE CAPASSO: A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY

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Hague - Malta | 14 June 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

"Today was really a ‘special’ birthday for me!
MANY COINCIDENCES: the 30th anniversary of the birth of the FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO and the Kuwait ALBABTAIN FOUNDATION; the anniversary of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in War Zones, signed just 65 years ago, the same day I was born.
An opportunity to remember him in The Hague, in the International Court of Justice, with many friends who have accompanied me in 30 years of commitment to dialogue and peace: from the PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MALTA GEORGE VELLA to the former PREDIDENT OF THE BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA HARIS SILAJDZIZ; from the PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF TURKEY ABDULLAH GUL to AMR MUSA, historical SECRETARY OF THE LEAGUE OF THE ARAB STATES; from PRINCIPE SAUDITA TURKI TO FAISAL ALSAUD to president ABDULAZIZ SAUD ALBABTAIN; from the President of the National Assembly of Kuwait MARZOUQ AL-GHANIM to the president of the reform and reconstruction of Iran AMMAR AL-HAKIM; from the president of the Central African Republic FAUSTIN-ARCHANGE TOUADERA to the European parliamentarian TOKIA SAIFI and off to a long list of personalities present in L’Aja.
I wish to thank the PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE ABDULQAWI AHMED YUSUF for his fine words and consideration.
A day to remember! "
Michele Capasso

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6th SUMMIT OF THE SOUTH EUROPE COUNTRIES

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Malta | 14 June 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Fondazione Mediterraneo intervened at the 6th Summit of the EU Mediterranean countries.
On the summit table a common strategy against migrant trafficking.
At the conclusion of the work, the adoption of a Declaration that "aims at a minimum common denominator of the 'southern flank' of the European Union on European priorities", as it is written in the summit presentation note. 

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