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.

 

With the images of joy and affection of my dear friend Jean-Paul Seytre - General Consul  of France in Naples - still in my eyes and heart - on the occasion of the French National Day (look at his post on this page) I am reached by a friend of Nice who, crying, tells me about this umpteenth massacre: children, men and women who have been cut off as if they were at war on the promenade in celebration by the shiny madness and anger of angry rage.
We embrace our brothers and sisters in France and around the world saying again NO TO TERROR and YES TO DIALOGUE AND THE MUTUAL RESPECT.

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In the 21nd anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, thousands of people gathered in the Potocari memorial cemetery, near Srebrenica, to pay homage to the 8,372 victims of the genocide committed in 1995 by the Bosnian Serbs of Ratko Mladic, and to participate at the funeral of another 127 victims identified in the last year. 5,000 participants in the March of Peace arrived in Potocari. Of the 127 victims buried this year alongside the 6,504 existing graves, there are also sminors.
The Fondazione Mediterraneo, founded precisely to help these innocent victims, appeals to the world to prevent genocide of this kind from occurring again.

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Il presidente Michele Capasso, i responsabili delle sedi distaccate ed i membri del Comitato Scientifico Internazionale della Fondazione Mediterraneo esprimono la propria solidarietà e vicinanza ai familiari dell'ennesimo atto terroristico di Dacca, in modo particolare alle famiglie dei 9 connazionali che hanno perso la vita per mano di fondamentalisti che strumentalizzano la religione per ideologie folli che nulla hanno a che fare con i valori dell'Amore e dell'Umano rispetto.
Occorre reagire riaffermando i concetti del Bello, del Vero e del Buono che ancora vivono in ognuno di noi.

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The award cerimony of the IX edition of the “Mare Nostrum Award 2016” took place in Rome.
Created by “Grimaldi Magazine” Mare Nostrum Awards is devoted to promoting the Highways of the Sea. The aim is to exploit this unique opportunity of tradings, links and sustainable development for all countries of the Mediterranean. The Mare Nostrum Awards prize amounts, as every year, to EUR 50,000 divided among the top five.
The International Jury of the Award consists of prominent members of journalism and culture.
The President Folco Quilici is supported, among the others, by Vassiliki Armogeni,greek journalist of te magazine Efoplistis, Michele Capasso, President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Diana De Feo, RAI journalist, Mimmo Jodice, photographer, Paul Kyprianou, former President RoRo Carriers Europeans. Secretary of the Prize is Luciano Bosso, journalist and editor of Grimaldi Magazine Mare Nostrum.
In this occasion the president Capasso present the Museum of Peace - MAMT.

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