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 General Assembly of the EUROMESCO Network was held in Barcelona, preceded by the meeting of the Executive Committee. On this occasion, the activities planned and the various crises spread throughout the world were analysed.
President Capasso - one of the founders of the international study network - stressed the need to help young researchers and restore trust and hope to young people.

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Bichara Khader, President of the Euromesco Assembly, at the end of the welcome lunch, paid tribute to Ambassador Senen Florensa, who had led the IEMED and the EuroMesco Executive Committee for the past 11 years.
The Ambassador Florensa from next September will be the Consul General of Spain in Rome.
President Capasso recalled the thirty years of friendship with Senen Florensa and the main joint initiatives that he had undertaken.

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I EuroMeSCo Forum, bringing together over 30 young researchers and practictioners, was held on 31 May in the framework of the Annual Conference.
During the Forum, young researchers presented research strands and initiatives taken in various countries from the Euro-Mediterranean region, including Turkey, Germany, Libya, UK, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to counter youth radicalisation.
President Capasso in his speech stressed the urgent need to make young "hunters of the positive" able to promote the "beautiful things" of life and illustrated the Peace MuseumMAMT.

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