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.

 

On the occasion of the World Peace Forum that will take place in Naples in 2019, the Mediterranean Foundation announces at the same time the development of the XIIth Edition of the "Concert for Peace". Artists from various countries will participate, as happened in 2010 for the San Carlo Theater Concert.

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The president of Turkey Recep Tayyp Erdoğan is visiting Rome for a single day: with his wife, daughter and some ministers.He met Pope Francis, President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and some entrepreneurs operating in Turkey. Contrasting evaluations between protests, hopes and exceptional security measures. On the carpet the usual problems: human rights, war with the Kurds contrast to the secularity state and a long list. "A long series of missed opportunities - comments the president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, who has had numerous meetings with President Erdoğan since 2005 - that could have affected the process of our history. When President Erdoğan came to Naples at the headquarters of our Foundation in September 2005 (accompanied by many ministers and in the presence of the highest representatives of the European institutions) he asked the Foundation for a quick acceptance of Turkey to the European Union.On that occasion we listed a series of priorities and detailed the things to do: starting from human rights, from women, from the respect of different cultures and others, for a list of 20 points contained in our program "Great Mediterranean" that the same Erdoğan, then, appreciate (watch to the interview at “IL MATTINO”). None of those recommendations was then implemented. At the conclusion of that meeting and in others held in the following years until 2015, we warned President Erdoğan to the risk of an authoritarian drift that could overturn the democratic process and Turkey's accession to the EU. The facts of the last few years have proved us right ".

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The Fondazione Mediterraneo has collaborated and hosted the perfection course "Nutrition, Beauty and Wellness" at the Museum of Peace - MAMT. Presided by the proff. B. Guida and L. Scaramuzzino the course was held under the scientific direction of Dr. Adriana Carotenuto and saw interventions by multidisciplinary specialists who enriched the contents with precise presentations visible in the links below.

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During the international meeting "The Culture of Peace for the Security of the Future Generations", the Fondazione Mediterraneo reaffirmed the necessity of resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict according to the scheme of "Two Peoples in Two States" and Jerusalem, a shared capital.
On this occasion, President Capasso recalled the thirty-year activity of the Fondazione Mediterraneo for conflict resolution, stressing the importance of the appeals made and the results of the meetings and visits to the Naples headquarters of the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the Presidents Arafat, Abu Mazen and Peres.

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Marrakech hosted a high-level conference organized by the IMF on 29 and 30 January on the theme: "Opportunity for All: Promoting Growth, Employment and Inclusion in the MENA Region". In the presence of more than 100 participants from around 20 countries, the speakers discussed issues related to growth, employability of young people and women, and support for SMEs. Christine Lagarde, much sought after by the media, with Mohamed Boussaid intervened in the various work sessions.
President Michele Capasso participated in sessions on the role of culture as a fundamental element for human and economic growth.

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