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.

 

MUNA - MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST UNIVERSITY NETWORK AGREEMENT (EN)

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Napoli | 18 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The deans of twelve Universities of the Mediterranean gathered together at Federico II in order to share a scientific, cultural and educational path. They signed an agreement that aims to promote the research and the Lifelong Education. The agreement is the first step in the establishment of MUNA - Mediterranean and Middle East University Network, a net of universities that they cooperate in the field of the pre and post bachelor. Joined to the event the Vice president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, prof. Caterina Arcidiacono who in her opening speech highlighted the  role of the Fondazione Mediterraneo in the promotion of the Networks of Universities: from the creation of “ALMAMED” (Network of 174 Euro-Mediterranean Universities ) to the establishment of “RIDE” (Italian Network for the Dialogue Euro-Mediterranean), that gathers together the most important Italian Universities working for the cooperation in the Mediterranean. In this occasion she has remembered the link between the University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakech - first seat of the Fondazione Mediterraneo in Morocco - and the First PHD Honoris Causa attribuited by this University to president Capasso on 9th March 2007.

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FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO SENDS A MESSAGE OF PEACE IN OCCASION OF RAMADAN

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Roma | 18 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

“Fondazione Mediterraneo wishes to all Muslims a happy Ramadān. Ramadān Karim”. The president Michele Capasso declares today, at the beginning of Ramadān, the ninth month of the year of the Islamic calendar, during which the Muslims practice the fast (sawm) which is one of the pillar of Islam. According to the Islamic tradition, in fact, the Ramadān marks the revelation of the Quran to men, since the 27th the evening of the month, (Laylat-al-Qadr, the night of the power), when the sacred text was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by Archangel Gabriel.


“We receive the beginning of the Ramadān with joy and respect. On the contrary of the Islamic fundamentalist movements which spread hate and violence in Middle East and the West mistaking the sense of the Islamic religion, there is a “pure” Islam represented by thousands of Muslims and which affirms the respect of other religions, bringing a  universal message of peace. We keep on in our engagement - Capasso concludes - in favour of the inter-religious dialogue proposing solutions capable of assuring the identification of the other and the mutual cohabitation”.

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THIRTY YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PINK CITY

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Marrakech | 16 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On the 16th of June1985 the president Michele Capasso visited Marrakech for the first time.
Among the many memories, events and activities carried out in these thirty years in “the pink” city there were: Cinemamed, Medpride, the events of the Anna Lindh Foundation, the conventions, conferences and activities of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Marrakech Centre: and there was also the 10th anniversary of the “Chaire Averroès Unesco of High Mediterranean Studies”.
Capasso has remembered the many Moroccan friends: from Mohamed Knidiri to the Ahmed Jebli mourning, Farid Belchaia to Said and Zora Margoul.

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MARE NOSTRUM AWARD CEREMONY 2015

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Roma | 15 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The award ceremony of the VIII Edition of “Mare Nostrum Award 2015” took place in Rome.
The Mare Nostrum Awards was created by “Grimaldi Magazine” and it’s dedicated to the promotion of the “Sea Highways”.  The aim is to promote this exceptional opportunity of exchanges, connections and sustainable development for all the countries of the Mediterranean area. The amount of the Mare Nostrum Awards, as every year, is of 50.000 euros to be divided between the first five classified.
The International Jury of the Prize is composed of important exponents of the journalistic and the cultural world. The President Folco Quilici is placed side by side of, among the others,  Vassiliki Armogeni, Greek journalist of the Efoplistis magazine, Michele Capasso, President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Diana De Feo, RAI journalist, Mimmo Jodice, photographer, Paul Kyprianou, European Shipping President of the RoRo Association.  The Secretary of the Prize is Luciano Bosso, journalist and director of Mare Nostrum, magazine edited by Grimaldi Lines.
The international jury headed by Folco Quilici, writer and director, has assigned the prizes to the written ones on the sea of Piero Ottone, to the vision of Cesar Urrutia who forecasts the transfer of  all the transport on rubber to alternative ways by 2030, to the sustainables proposals of Carlo Alessandro Argenzio and Giuseppe Speranza, to Rossend Domenech and to Alessandro Sansoni that conducted an analysis on the geopolitical role of Italy in Mare Nostrum, recognizing the urgency of a planning of investments above all in the harbour field.

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THE BOOK LA GRANDE MÉDITERRANÉE TO MARRAKECH

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Marrakech | 12 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

During  a meeting between the president Michele Capasso, the president of the UCAM Abdellatif Miraoui and the vice president Bougadir Blaïd the decision of print a special edition of the book "La Grande Méditerranée" has been taken. The new edition will include the lectio magistralis of president Capasso and the relative notes and will be dedicated to students and professors of the University of Cadi Ayyad.

 

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