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.

 

THE KILLING OF SANTO ROMANO IN FRONT OF THE TOTEM OF PEACE IN SAN SEBASTIANO AL VESUVIO

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San Sebastiano al Vesuvio | 01 November 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

"Never would I have imagined that the name of my father Raffaele - mayor of the reconstruction of the town - and the "Totem for Peace", located in front of the town hall, would be known in Italy and other countries for the murder for trivial reasons of the young Santo Romano, which took place right at the foot of the work symbolising the United States of the World".
These were the words of President Michele Capasso upon hearing the news of the young man's tragic murder.
Hence the proposal to dedicate the monumental work to the "Young Victims of Petty Crime".
The Prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari, convened a Committee for Order and Security, which was held in the City Hall of San Sebastiano and dedicated to Raffaele Capasso.
There was great general mobilisation with torchlight processions, youth marches and prayers in front of the Totem for Peace.

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PRESS CONFERENCE FOR THE PRESENTATION OF "DILEXIT NOS - ENCYCLICAL LETTER ON THE HUMAN AND DIVINE LOVE OF THE HEART OF JESUS CHRIST".

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Vatican City | 24 October 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Press Conference for the presentation of "Dilexit nos - Encyclical Letter on the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ" took place at the Holy See Press Office in Via della Conciliazione 54.
Speakers included: H.E. Monsignor Bruno Forte, Theologian, Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto (Italy); Sister Antonella Fraccaro, General Head of the Disciples of the Gospel.

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A DELEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD PARTICIPATES IN BRICS

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Kazan (Russia) | 22 October 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

A delegation of the "United States of the World" and the "Fondazione Mediterraneo", exclusively as ‘observers’, attended the BRICS held in Moscow, Kazan, on the banks of the Volga.
Secretary General Michele Capasso commented:
"Instead of uniting in a single ‘whole’ - such as that of the United States of the World - they continue to create rifts by feeding rampant egoism when there is a gigantic ‘love gap’ in the world to be filled. Exploiting a certain anti-Western resentment fosters the paralysis of that global cooperation that is already in crisis: climate change, debt crisis, food security are just some of the topics that resonate with insistence in the meetings taking place around the world and are issues that also weigh heavily on the geopolitical dynamics of a world torn apart by conflicts and rivalries. The slowness with which the global financial system has reacted to the new challenges, the need for partnerships with the global South and a more bottom-up driven development, the objective of accelerating the fight against poverty in the face of growing inequalities: there is also this in the terms of the dialectic with the Brics that does not appear in any of the working tables".

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COP 16 - WORLD CONFERENCE ON BIODIVERSITY

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Cali (Colombia) | 21 October 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

A delegation from the "United States of the World" and the ‘Fondazione Mediterraneo’ participated in the event, which brought together delegates from 200 governments and around ten thousand representatives of various organisations in southwest Colombia.
This year's COP16 takes place in Cali, capital of the department of Valle del Cauca (Colombia), between 21 October and 1 November 2024.
The slogan ‘Peace with Nature’ is a call for reflection to improve the relationship we have with the environment, to rethink an economic model that does not prioritise extraction, overexploitation and pollution of nature.
"This World Conference on Biodiversity - said Secretary General Michele Capasso - is one of the last opportunities to preserve the inestimable cultural heritage of the planet, and it is being held in a country and a city where the contradictions in terms of respect for Creation are most evident. Colombia is, in fact, an unparalleled treasure chest of biodiversity. According to the most up-to-date data, it is the second largest country in the world. The only one on the continent where practically all the natural environments of South America exist: the Andes and the Amazon, the Atlantic and the Pacific, the desert, the savannah and the great plains, the Caribbean islands and the long rivers".
But Colombia is also, and by far, the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders: 73 murders in 2023, 40 per cent of all those on the planet. They are those who fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking, monocultures, deforestation. For the first time, South America is hosting a world intervention on the environment, in anticipation of next year's climate conference in Belém, Brazil, and this is taking place in a city that symbolises Colombian violence. For this very reason, in Colombia, ‘COP16’ is seen as a great opportunity. It raises hopes, of which both the Church and, more generally, civil society and popular movements are spokesmen. The Colombian Church has a massive presence at the conference. The programme includes conferences, forums, congresses, exhibitions and documentary screenings, organised in particular by the Archdiocese of Cali, the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, the Episcopal Council of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAM) and the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Repam). Also present in Cali is a representation of the Vatican Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development, as well as the Apostolic Nuncio, Msgr. Paolo Rudelli.

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MEETING WITH POPE FRANCIS

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Vatican City | 16 October 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Secretary General Professor Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari had an affectionate meeting with Pope Francis.
On this occasion, the Holy Father was shown the path of the "United States of the World" and the importance of the "Constitution" based precisely on the encyclicals "Laudato sì" and "Fratelli tutti" promulgated by the Pontiff.
Secretary General Michele Capasso stressed "how an immense famine of love and joy is invading humanity, in the face of rampant selfishness that is destroying the fundamental values of life".
On this occasion, an original copy of the text of the "Constitution of the United States of the World" containing the rights and duties of the planet's inhabitants was dedicated to the Pope.
Pia Molinari offered the Pontiff a Spanish language copy of the magazine of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians ‘DMA’ and two copies of the magazine ‘OSUM’: the first, from March 2015, reports the visit of Pope Francis to the "Totem for Peace" containing the urn with the relics of the "Unknown Migrant" in the port of Naples; the second reports the appointment of "Ambassador to the memory" of Blessed Carlo Acutis and the appointment of many young "Standard Bearers", for the Earth and for Peace.
At the end of the meeting, the first copy of Michele Capasso's book "United States of the World. Una storia davvero di Dio" and a canvas bag made by the mothers of Gaza whose children were slaughtered in the ongoing conflict.

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