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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.

APPEAL FOR PEACE AND FOR THE CHILDREN OF ALEPPO

Napoli | 01 January 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On the occasion of the World Day for Peace, the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso has launched - as yet another bottle in the sea - a heartfelt appeal for peace in Syria and for the children of Aleppo, re-proposing the text circulated in September 2013 on the occasion of the Euromed Civil Forum in Brussels: sadly still present today!
In particular for the children of Aleppo, a martyr city, President Capasso underlined the persistent chaos in the country and the vicious circle that tears hopes of dialogue and peace, hoping for a reawakening of consciences to put an end to a real genocide.

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BUON NATALE NEL SEGNO DELL'AMORE (EN)

Roma | 25 December 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Pochi minuti fa Papa Francesco ha ricordato, qui a Piazza San Pietro, le tante guerre che infestano il mondo ed ha confermato, QUALE UNICO ANTIDOTO, il POTERE DELL'AMORE incarnato dal BAMBINO GESÙ.

Quando più di 25 anni orsono fondammo la Fondazione Mediterraneo assumemmo un impegno: TRASFORMARE L' "AMORE PER IL POTERE" nel "POTERE DELL'AMORE".

Di fronte ai bambini di Aleppo - ed a tutti quelli vittime di guerre, ingiustizie, soprusi, inganni - dobbiamo PERSEVERARE in questa azione: senza fermarci M A I :
solo il POTERE DELL'AMORE, DELL'ACCOGLIENZA, DELLA COESISTENZA potrà dare senso alla nostra vita ed aiutarci a costruire un futuro di pace e giustizia sociale.

BUON NATALE : con le immagini dei bimbi di Aleppo che, con le braccia aperte, come GESÙ BAMBINO, ci esortano a CREDERE nell' UOMO, nella SOLIDARIETÀ, nella COESISTENZA PACIFICA tra tutti i popoli del pianeta.

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22 DECEMBER IS ALEPPO DAY

Roma | 22 December 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Fondazione Mediterraneo adheres to the day when UNICEF asks everyone to tell the situation of Syrian children and citizens, just a few days from Christmas, to find themselves in public places or in their homes with a symbolic blanket to say enough to the war in Syria. President Michele Capasso - present in Rome and Naples - recalled the Foundation's commitment for the Syria already since 2009 with appeals and concrete solidarity initiatives (aid to refugees and children from Aleppo).

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THE PRESIDENT CAPASSO PARTECIPATE TO SEMINAR “URBAN SUBURBS A CHALLENGE POSSIBLE”

Napoli | 21 December 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The president Michele Capasso took part in the seminar organized by the Order of Architects of Naples and the Foundation of the same name on the theme "Urban suburbs: a challenge possible". With a report on "Intercultural City and Relationships", President Capasso addressed issues related to the city's crisis and the need to think of new models that see the relationships between different cultures at the center of the process of transforming cities and suburbs. The seminar - moderated by the journalist Marco de Marco - saw, among others, the Interventions of Pio Crispino, Gennaro Polichetti, Carmine Piscopo, Antonio Coppola, Francesco Scardaccione, Micheleangelo Russo, Rosario Pavia, Mariano Faraone Mennella, Luca Zevi and Maurizio Di Stefano.