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.

 

During a solemn ceremony the "Sala Mana Saeed Al-Otaiba" of the Museum of Peace - MAMT was inaugurated and dedicated to Poetry and to the Dialogue between Civilizations as an instrument for peace.
Present at the ceremony - besides S.E. Mana Saeed Al-Otaiba (accompanied by his family and close associates), the president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso and the director of the Pia Molinari Museum - ministers, ambassadors and representatives of international institutions.
Between these:

  • H.E. Saqer Nasser Alraisi (Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Rome).
  • H.E. Ibrahim Al Balaoui (Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to UNESCO).
  • H.E. Cheikha Wafae Al Khalifa (Ambassador of Bahrain to UNESCO).
  • H.E. Hassan Abouyoub (Ambassador of Morocco to Rome).
  • H.E. Dr. Cheikh Khaled bin Khalifa Al Khalifa (Bahrain).
  • H.E. Dr. Mustapha Bakkoury (President of the Region of Casablanca, Morocco).
  • H.E. Dr. Mohamed Kabbaj (Morocco).
  • Prof. Adelhak Azzouzi (Morocco).
  • Prof. Asma Alaoui (Morocco).
  • Prof. Massimo Pica Ciamarra (Italy).
  • Prof. Domenico De Masi (Italy).
  • Ing. Roberto Reggi (Italy).
  • French Consul in Naples M. Jean Paul Seytre.
  • Consul of Spain in Naples M. José Luis Solano Gadea.
  • Consul of Tunisia in Naples Mss. Beya Ben Abdelbaki.
  • Dr.ssa Alessandra Sardu, Councilor of the City of Naples.
  • Dr. Salvatore Calleri (President of Caponnetto Foundation, Italy).

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The Fondazione Mediterraneo hosted the "Focus Youth Workers" organized by the Youth Policy Department of the Campania Region, the Regional Observatory of Youth Policies and other institutions.
After the greeting addresses of President Michele Capasso and Councilor Serena Angioli, the participants discussed various topics, including the recognition of the "youth worker" skills certification.

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The Consul of the Republic of Tunisia in Naples, Beya Ben Abdelbaki Fraoua, visited the Mediterranean Foundation and the Museum of PeaceMAMT welcomed by President Michele Capasso.
On this occasion, as already announced to the Tunisian ambassador in Rome, Moez Sinaoui, the President Capasso communicated the decision of the international juries to assign the "Mediterranean Award Special Edition 2018" to the President of the Republic of Tunisia Beji Caid Essebsi.
To this end, an ambassador's visit was hoped shortly to define the details of the ceremony and the eventual organization of an exhibition dedicated to Tunisia to be hosted at the Museum of Peace - MAMT.
The President Capasso accompanied the Consul among the various museum itineraries and showed videos of the ceremonies of some of the Heads of State awarded the Mediterranean Award in the previous editions.

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